Changelog 3.6

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Major enhancements in this release

Project Organization

Cquote1.png I am going to commence reducing FGDATA this weekend. The reasons for that

action have been discussed here and on the forum in epic detail, so I won't
repeat them.

The result will be a new and much smaller git repository and it will only
have the c172p and the ufo remaining.

To avoid any unnecessary extra work, I will temporarily remove all
contributors with write access except 2 or three admins on Friday afternoon
(Central European Time Zone).


— Torsten Dreyer (2015-03-05). [Flightgear-devel] FGData size reduction.
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Cquote1.png Next, I'll do a initial commit of the base package aircraft to fgaddon/svn.

Following that, I create a new git repo for a smaller git fgdata and push
it to sourceforge.
Finally, we re-add contributors with push permission.

If anything goes wrong, the original fgdata will remain intact and can
serve as a fallback.


— Torsten Dreyer (2015-03-05). [Flightgear-devel] FGData size reduction.
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Core

Aircraft Modeling

JSBSim

Atmospheric Light Scattering

  • The addition of volumetric grass to the random vegetation system.

Environment Rendering

Performance

Usability

Internationalization

Scenery

Canvas System

  • Canvas-based maps now support a new property for child elements to be automatically rotated/aligned with the heading of the map, to avoid redundant Nasal code doing this. This has the advantage of better peformance, as it is now done in C++. Commit

Nasal Scripting

Documentation

Highlighted new and improved aircraft

Misc/Uncategorized

Bug fixes

  • See our bugtracker for an extensive, yet incomplete, list of the bugs fixed in this release.