New beta update Available

[larjeet]

Just ran the updater and downloaded the latest beta

[karingka]

Any news on what's new in this update?

[MaidenFan]

I don't see any new updates up. Are you referring to 10.04 Beta I that came out the other day?

[larjeet]

It still shows as beta10.04-1 but It downloaded about 165 mbs of what looked like scenery updates one of the files was actually the spaceneedle in seattle

Edited February 3, 2012 by larjeet

[larjeet]

Ran the updater today and there was more Scenery updates for KSEA are about 180 MB

[Tonka]

Are you sure the updater is finishing properly each time you run it, or maybe you keep accidentally deleting the KSEA Demo Area folder without realising?

I can't see why Laminar would add things to an existing beta, and the updater hasn't added anything to my beta install since i updated to 10.04b1.

[larjeet]

No never I deleted anything try it yourself and see what happens .

[chris k]

No never I deleted anything try it yourself and see what happens .

Just did. I put in 10.04b1 when it first was released a week or so ago.

Just re-ran the updater now. Enabled the "get betas" checkbox.

Scanned 20000+ files or so.

No change: "X-Plane 10 is up to date"

- CK.

[Tonka]

Same here, nothing downloaded, today or on the third when you first posted.

Also, the last time files for 10.04b1 were updated on the server was the 26th Jan.

As long as you are up to date now, that's all that matters.

Edited February 6, 2012 by Tonka

[GrahamH]

No change for me either.

You're going insane Larry!

[larjeet]

No Im not just discovered what the problem was I was playing around with the scenery organizer and If you syncronize files it adds a prefix to the folders in the addon scenery file . As the KSEA folders had been renamed with a prefix the updater was seeing them as missing and redownloaded them . So there it was downloading and Im not Crazy LOL

Edited February 6, 2012 by larjeet

[chris k]

Ack pth.

- CK.

Edited February 6, 2012 by chris k

[larjeet]

My motto is push buttons ask Questions later HIHI

[GrahamH]

Good one Chris.

[larjeet]

What can I say Eh I could blame it on living in Surrey LOL

[larjeet]

2.1 X-Plane 10.04 Beta 2, COMING SOON Release Notes

X-Plane 10.04 Beta 2, COMING SOON

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.

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.