From owner-linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Tue Dec 19 17:34:55 2000 Received: by humbolt.nl.linux.org id ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:34:16 +0100 Received: from mail.me.umn.edu ([128.101.141.206]:39178 "EHLO mail.me.umn.edu") by humbolt.nl.linux.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:33:22 +0100 Received: from kenai.me.umn.edu (root@kenai.me.umn.edu [128.101.140.134]) by mail.me.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10758; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:33:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from curt@me.umn.edu) Received: (from curt@localhost) by kenai.me.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA23794; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:33:07 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14911.36291.173084.97837@kenai.me.umn.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:33:07 -0600 (CST) From: "Curtis L. Olson" To: linux-aviation@nl.linux.org, flight-sim@grove.iup.edu, toma@cstone.net, news@flightsim.com, news@simflight.com, brandor@combatsim.com, linux-announce@sws1.ctd.ornl.gov, xplane-tech@egroups.com Subject: FlightGear 0.7.6 X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-aviation-list FlightGear version 0.7.6 is now available for download. The FlightGear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source flight simulator project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GPL. There is a new 0.7.6 version of the base package that corresponds with this new release. We also have a complete rebuild of the world scenery in progress (which now includes our global land use / land cover database.) Everyone that upgrades to 0.7.6 or wants to use this new scenery will need to have the 0.7.6 base package as well. If you want to compile FlightGear-0.7.6 from source, you will also need to first download and install plib-1.2.0 and SimGear-0.0.14. Plib is available from "http://plib.sourceforge.net". SimGear is available from "http://www.simgear.org". For more information on this project, please visit the Flight Gear web page at: http://www.flightgear.org Version 0.7.6 includes some exciting new features. We now have high resolution runway textures with accurate markings. Basic ground lighting has been implemented with lights concentrated in urban and built up areas. Quite a bit of work has been done on the instrument panel infrastructure and we can now support "shaped" panels and scrollable "virtual" panels that are larger than the screen. We've added support for waypoint following to the autopilot. We've added a basic piston engine model and have modeled rpm, egt, cht, mp, and mixture. Aside from these more obvious changes, we've also done a ton of work behind the scenes developing and updating the infrastructure of this project, fixing bugs, and building better support for the major compilers and environments available today. Please see the FlightGear web site for a more detailed list of changes. Curt. -- Curtis Olson Human Factors Research Lab Flight Gear Project Twin Cities curt@hfrl.umn.edu curt@flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org - Archives of linux-aviation: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/linux-aviation/ To unsubscribe: send the command "unsubscribe linux-aviation" in the body of a mail message to .