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===Vehicles===
===Vehicles===
Alpha One by Melbourne Motor Design has been released. Download link and information are available here ([https://melbmotordesign.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/all%E2%80%91new-alpha-one/ Melbourne Motor Design - Alpha One])
Alpha One by Melbourne Motor Design has been released. Download link and information are available here ([https://melbmotordesign.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/all%E2%80%91new-alpha-one/ Melbourne Motor Design - Alpha One])
===Bombardier Q400===
[[File:Q400-exterior.jpg|thumb|Bombardier Q400 remodelled]]
The Bombardier Q400, former dhc8-400 by Alex Park has received a major update including fully remodelling and new systems by Florian K and D-ECHO. You can follow the development on the github repository: https://github.com/D-ECHO/Q400


== Scenery corner ==
== Scenery corner ==

Revision as of 05:25, 9 April 2016

This newsletter is a draft.

Please feel free to add content that you think will be of interest to the FlightGear community.
You can read the latest newsletter at FlightGear Newsletter March 2016.


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April 2016

Development news
In the hangar

Scenery Corner
Community News
FGPromo: A FlightGear Promotional Video

Contributing
Translators required
FlightGear logos
Screenshots
Screenshot of the Month

Development news

IR vision

The ALS rendering framework has been upgraded to allow filtering of the final output. This includes in-sim adjustments of brightness and gamma as well as perhaps more exciting features like night vision and especially the IR vision mode.

ALS IR vision example

This mode is not just a black/white rendered mockup of an IR camera, but it shows genuine temperature differences based on solar input, thermal inertia of different materials and more. Also, modelers can assign emissive temperatures to objects which are then consistently rendered.

Read more...

Scenery LOD Rationalization

Previously, the LOD ranges of random objects, trees, buildings and STG objects were set variously by materials.xml and fixed values. This was very inconsistent and wasn't controlled by the user. They have now been made consistent to use the /sim/rendering/static-lod/rough property which can be set from the LOD GUI dialog. There are a couple of impacts of this:

  • Scenery developers, and particularly those doing regional materials should not set the "tree-range-m" for random vegetation or the "range-m" property for random objects.
  • Scenery models should not use the LOD animation to control when the entire model becomes visible - this is now set appropriately by the sim itself. It may still be valuable to use the LOD to hide small details.

In the hangar

Alpha One by Melbourne Motor Design

Vehicles

Alpha One by Melbourne Motor Design has been released. Download link and information are available here (Melbourne Motor Design - Alpha One)

Bombardier Q400

Bombardier Q400 remodelled

The Bombardier Q400, former dhc8-400 by Alex Park has received a major update including fully remodelling and new systems by Florian K and D-ECHO. You can follow the development on the github repository: https://github.com/D-ECHO/Q400

Scenery corner

Barcelona scenery improvements:

  • 3D objects optimisation
  • More Static buildings around
  • More shared objects
  • New wiki entry

Community news

FGPromo: A FlightGear Promotional Video

After more than 5 months of hard work, FGPromo, a video showing off FlightGear at its finest, has been released!

Contributing

Translators required

En.gif The FlightGear Wiki still needs help for translating it into various languages. If you are interested in making the FlightGear Wiki multilingual, you can start by looking at Help:Translate.
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Es.gif La wiki de FlightGear todavía necesita ayuda para traducirla a varios lenguajes. Si estás interesado en hacer la FlightGear wiki multilingüe, entonces comienza en Help:Traducir.
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Pt.gif A wiki de FlightGear ainda necessita de ajuda para traduzi-la em vários idiomas. Se estás interessado em tornar a wiki de FlightGear multi-lingual, por favor começa em Help:Traduzir.

FlightGear logos

If you want some graphic elements for your FlightGear-related site (such as a hangar or YouTube channel), please feel free to visit FlightGear logos for a repository of logos. And if you have some art skills, please don't hesitate to contribute with your own design creations.

Screenshots

The FlightGear project always needs screenshots, which show features that were added since the last release. These should be of good quality, especially in content and technical image properties. It is therefore recommended to use the best viable filter settings (anti-aliasing, texture sharpening, etc.). More info at Howto:Make nice screenshots.

Screenshot of the Month

Entries for this month's best screenshot can be submitted to this forum topic. Be sure to see the first post for participation rules. For purposes of convenience and organization, after all the entries have been submitted, a new forum topic will be started containing all shots in an easy-to-view layout. The voting will then take place there. Once the voting has finished, the best screenshot will be presented on this page.