Finishing 12.1.0 Features

Finishing 12.1.0 Features

If you’re at FSWeekend, say hey to our peeps there! In the meantime, we’re working to kill off the last 12.1.0 features. A few internal pics* from killing off the last features:

Author-controlled de-icing has had a series of bugs in 12.0.x. For 12.1.0 we’ve gone over it with a fine tooth comb; Alex ran the above tests with our Kingair, which has the unusual case of two overlapping de-icing zones. We’ll have updated docs, Blender exporter support, and builds for authors.

Some tests of real weather. In the first pic, the sky says clear but there’s a distant cloud…because the weather report is local.

Water turbidity is fixed for 12.1.0 and I am finishing documentation for authors. It looks like Oscar’s work on Ortho4XP is on GitHub. Please note that X-Plane 12.1.0 does not improve X-Plane 11 orthophoto water compatibility; v11 packs will only have 2-d water because their meshes are not triangulated properly for 3-d waves.

Based on the progress we done this week, I am hoping we will be able to test these features next week and start a private alpha in our developer lobby.

* Please note: these are internal pics from the developers that I am posting while the marketing team is too far away to object – literally what we were passing around while discussing the features. Don’t panic over FPS; the sim is running a debug build in those real weather pics, for example.