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''See [[FlightGear_Newsletter_October_2020#Help_wanted|Help wanted]]. | ''See [[FlightGear_Newsletter_October_2020#Help_wanted|Help wanted]]. | ||
There are a lot of big infrastructure changes already well underway and planned for the LTS after 2020.3.x. To name a couple: [[Compositor]],[[World_Scenery_3.0_roadmap|World Scenery 3.0]], [[Virtual_Planet_Builder|Virtual Planet Builder]] instead of terragear for terrain building, replacement of the in-sim UI, infrastructure for regular world builds, runtime airport generation, move to a higher version of OpenGL, OSM2City world build and [[OSM2City]] tech improvements etc. | There are a lot of big infrastructure changes already well underway and planned for the LTS after 2020.3.x. To name a couple: [[Compositor]], [[World_Scenery_3.0_roadmap|World Scenery 3.0]], switching to [[Virtual_Planet_Builder|Virtual Planet Builder]] instead of terragear for terrain building, replacement of the in-sim UI, infrastructure for regular world builds, runtime airport generation, move to a higher version of OpenGL, OSM2City world build and [[OSM2City]] tech improvements etc. | ||
The 'next' branch will build towards the next Development Preview release, and ultimately the next LTS. As always nightly builds of the next branch are available at [http://download.flightgear.org/builds/nightly/ download.flightgear.org]. | The 'next' branch will build towards the next Development Preview release, and ultimately the next LTS. As always nightly builds of the next branch are available at [http://download.flightgear.org/builds/nightly/ download.flightgear.org]. | ||
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James has said he is willing to review and update the homepage if material is submitted to the wiki, or otherwise handed over to him: | James has said he is willing to review and update the homepage if material is submitted to the wiki, or otherwise handed over to him: | ||
: ''James Turner [[https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/37145199/ 1]] : If anyone wants to do an article on a particular aircraft or feature for the Website, that would be excellent: don’t be shy: if you can provide some text and a couple of screenshots, it can be turned into a post easily.'' | |||
These will be published as news posts after 2020.3 LTS release, about a week apart, or when material is available. If there is not enough material several small items can be collected into a news post. | These will be published as news posts after 2020.3 LTS release, about a week apart, or when material is available. If there is not enough material several small items can be collected into a news post. | ||
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=== New aircraft === | |||
====C172S with FG1000==== | |||
[[User:wlbragg|Wlbragg]] and the C172 team are working on the Cessna 172S SkyHawk SP, with the [[FG1000]] glass cockpit. | |||
The team are requesting thorough testing to find any needed tuning changes and missing elements. | |||
See the [https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=38240 forum thread] for more information and screenshots ([https://i.imgur.com/QsjgtGc.png 1], [https://i.imgur.com/TlsZ5dw.png 2], [https://i.imgur.com/rA8a2D0.png 3]). | |||
Github repository and downloads: | |||
* [https://github.com/c172p-team/c172p/tree/FG1000-variant C172S with FG1000] and [https://github.com/c172p-team/c172p/archive/FG1000-variant.zip download] | |||
* [https://github.com/c172p-team/c172p/tree/Issue-1307 C172S compositor branch] and [https://github.com/c172p-team/c172p/archive/Issue-1307.zip download] | |||
=== Updated aircraft === | === Updated aircraft === | ||