Laminar Releases Version 10.04 Beta 2

Well, Captains, it's that time again! Laminar has released yet another update with a laundry list of improvements. Check it out below and get your updaters going!

• All buttons on the FMS's should work properly even if there are two different FMS's in the airplane.

• Wind-shear and turbulence model refined a little more to be more complex in it's randomness, and not always quite so strong in what are requested to be moderate conditions, and to change in a reasonable way with altitude. This should help improve wind and turbulence modeling, especially with Real-Weather turned on.

• X-15 drop and Space-Shuttle-carry missions should work properly now.

• Right-mouse drag to look around in 3-D cockpit command-look view, and mouse scroll wheel zooms. This is a pretty convenient way to look around the 3-D cockpits. (This works in "command" look mode, not mouse look mode! So when you are not right-mouse dragging, the view stays still and you can manipulate the 3-d panel.)

• Track-IR functions in ALL 3-d cockpit views now... It has WORKED for years, but is now easier to find since it engages in ALL 3-d cockpit views, not just one.

• Cool new feature for QuickTime movies: Movie quality! Set it high or low depending on how good you want it to look... and how much disk space you want to burn!

• External visuals should sync-up faster in the multi-machine setups, which should save some time in real flight-training scenarios.

• Landing lights, spotlights, and spotlight aiming-angles all go from master machine to external visuals now.

• Plane-Maker system screen: Option to auto-load with current values, or not, airspeed, vertical speed, and altitude when a new autopilot mode is engaged.

• Visibility tuned to change with altitude in a more accurate way to follow the reported weather more closely.

• AI planes should be better about holding desired altitude now, resulting in less annoyed air traffic controllers.

• Fixed: incorrect warnings about missing scenery

• Fixed (partly): the ocean shading should have fewer sharp lines on it. Far view shading of the ocean is still a work in progress...more color tuning in a future beta.

• Fixed: wing flex now works - X-Plane was incorrectly zeroing out wing-flex on some v10 planes.

• Fixed: sharp turns in taxiway lines now render correctly at KSEA and other airports.

• Fixed: right button on Linux is now the "right" button, not the scroll wheel itself.

• Fixed: plugins won't crash if they try to read the weather from XPluginStart

Facades:

• Roof behaviors now match v9 for legacy facades
  
• A bunch of new features to control the exact appearance of facade-attached objects - docs coming soon!

• New facade features: attached objects on facades appear and disappear with "objects" rendering setting for better performance.