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====C-5==== | ====C-5==== | ||
The C-5 [http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7557 is being | The C-5 [http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7557 is being modeled] by jonbourg. | ||
====IAR80==== | ====IAR80==== | ||
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====Quest Kodiak 100==== | ====Quest Kodiak 100==== | ||
The Quest Kodiak is a modern STOL turboprop single built to be a back-country aircraft to help in areas in which | The Quest Kodiak is a modern STOL turboprop single built to be a back-country aircraft to help in areas in which humanitarian help is needed. At the moment exists a basic FDM and an outside 3D model with animations of it. We are currently working on the cockpit. If you want to help developing please write a mail to not.everyone.lives [at] googlemail [dot] com. You can download the Kodiak [http://takhadnotor.github.com/kodiak/ from here]. Also a [http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6804 forum thread] represents the project. | ||
====B-29 Superfortress==== | ====B-29 Superfortress==== | ||
The original author of the B-29 model is not active in FlightGear at the moment due to the | The original author of the B-29 model is not active in FlightGear at the moment due to the pressures of real-life work. So Vivian Meazza has been busy with bringing the B-29 model up-to-date. The ambient light levels have been brought into line with current practice and the YASim FDM has been lightly worked over. Some effects have been added: the reflective effect, exhaust staining, and contrails. | ||
===Liveries=== | ===Liveries=== | ||
Just two months after its (re)launch, the [http://liveries.flightgear.org livery database] has been visited by more than a 1000 unique visitors, from 74 different | Just two months after its (re)launch, the [http://liveries.flightgear.org livery database] has been visited by more than a 1000 unique visitors, from 74 different countries. Together they have viewed over 22.000 pages. As of April, more than 200 liveries are available and the database is still expanding. | ||
==CVS news== | ==CVS news== | ||
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The [http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/files/local_weather_fgfs2.0.0_v0.51.tgz current release v0.51] is still limited to simulating weather in a 40x40 km tile, but supports placement of regions in which visibility, rain, snow and thermal lift are set, as well as interpolation of visibility, pressure, temperature and dewpoint between preset weather stations. The system also automatically creates thermals below convective clouds which can be utilized by gliders using a CVS patch, thus providing greatly enhanced soaring capability. More details in the forum or in the Wiki article [[A local weather system]]. | The [http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/files/local_weather_fgfs2.0.0_v0.51.tgz current release v0.51] is still limited to simulating weather in a 40x40 km tile, but supports placement of regions in which visibility, rain, snow and thermal lift are set, as well as interpolation of visibility, pressure, temperature and dewpoint between preset weather stations. The system also automatically creates thermals below convective clouds which can be utilized by gliders using a CVS patch, thus providing greatly enhanced soaring capability. More details in the forum or in the Wiki article [[A local weather system]]. | ||
Help with texturing cloud models, developing and improving shader effects, testing, merging with the C++ code or increasing the library of | Help with texturing cloud models, developing and improving shader effects, testing, merging with the C++ code or increasing the library of available weather tiles is highly appreciated! | ||
===New dogfighting scenarios available!=== | ===New dogfighting scenarios available!=== | ||
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==And finally== | ==And finally== | ||
Did you know, that the visibility of FlightGear's menubar can toggled by hitting the F10 key? Or start your FlightGear with --prop:/sim/menubar/autovisibility/enabled=1 once. The menubar automatically pops up when your mouse is near the top edge of the FlightGear window. A click with the left mouse button hides the menubar again. If you have autosave on (which is on by default), this feature will be enabled | Did you know, that the visibility of FlightGear's menubar can toggled by hitting the F10 key? Or start your FlightGear with --prop:/sim/menubar/autovisibility/enabled=1 once. The menubar automatically pops up when your mouse is near the top edge of the FlightGear window. A click with the left mouse button hides the menubar again. If you have autosave on (which is on by default), this feature will be enabled every time you start FlightGear. | ||
[[Category:FlightGear Newsletter|2010 04]] | [[Category:FlightGear Newsletter|2010 04]] | ||