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You can download test-version YSFLIGHT and Scenery Editor.
Since these files are test version, these haven't gone through
pre-release test which I run before releasing an official version.
If you would like to use a stable official version, please download
YSFLIGHT from here.
By the way, I really truly absolutely didn't run pre-release test
at all for this test version at this time. Usually I pick a few
test items and try them before rolling out a test version, but this time
I haven't. All I did was I took off and made one traffic pattern
with F-18E. I suppose you will see a lot of bugs in this test
version. I appreciate your report so that I can fix them.
When you report me a problem, please describe the situation as much
detailed as possible. Please include at least in what operating
system you are running the program, and in Windows which executable
you are using, and if the problem is specific to a particular airplane
or scenery, please include them. If a problem is associated with
a specific add-on, please let me know where I can download it from as
well.
Thank you for your help!
for Windows
[YSFLIGHT] (2018/10/01)
[Scenery Editor] (2018/07/04)
for Intel Mac OSX
[YSFLIGHT] (2018/10/01)
(Including YSFLIGHT for Linux)
[Scenery Editor] (2018/07/04)
for Linux 32-bit & 64-bit (Tested on Ubuntu 14 on
Parallels Desktop)
[Scenery Editor] (2018/07/04)
Concept Mission
[AomoriWars.yfs]
(2014/10/29)
Sound DLL Sample Source Files
[Sound DLL Source] (2012/02/19)
Voice DLL Source File Skeleton
[Voice DLL Skeleton Source] (2012/02/25)
[Practice IFR Appoach in
YSFLIGHT (Draft)]
Auto-Test Script
[Auto
Test Scripts (2018/08/03)]
[Updates]
2018/10/01
- Corrected OpenGL 2.0/ES 2.0 rendering error.
- Support macOS 10.14. Actually I had to make
more-than-expected corrections in user-interface. Please let
me know if you find some strange behavior in the UI.
2018/08/03
- install_addon.py in the auto-test scripts looks into .acp
files references in the ground object data files and correct
capitalization.
2018/08/02
- I don't know if it is useful for someone, but I have uploaded
a set of test scripts. It is significant for me because more
than half of pre-release test items are covered by this batch.
(Such as selecting random menu items or changing configurations
and make sure the program does not crash) Also I have
automated installing the add-on packages to a test-environment and
flip through airplanes and maps. Actually that was fun.
I was impressed by the variety and the quality of the models.
I used to be randomly selecting a few packages before. This
revealed many mistakes in my code, which should be fixed shortly.
- By the way, install_addon.py is free on BSD license.
Please feel free to customize and bundle with your add-on
packages. This might be useful.
2018/07/04
- I'm thinking to start pre-release test based on this version.
- Fixed VOR OBS indication. (I should make a Pittsburgh
map so that I can positively check heading/OBS indications...)
- Scenery Editor: Prevent Color-Palette Dialog disappearance.
2018/05/19
- I think this time I really fixed the magnetic heading and true
heading consistency. By the way, I made the sign back to the
previous. (In YSFLIGHT West is positive.)
- ARTCC was not giving higher than 10000ft, which was awkward
for a long cross country in a jet airplane. Now it gives up
to the altitude specified in the aircraft data. (Actually,
the descending instruction was supposed to be given +6000, +3000,
and then +1500 of the destination airport, but for some reason the
current ATC skips +3000. I'm looking into the problem.)
2018/04/22
- Separated ILS view (default F6) and Tower view (default F8).
- Looks like a standard definition of magnetic variation is
West=minus and East=plus. I was calculating opposite.
I reversed it to align with the standard. Thank you for
pointing it out!
- Fly -> Select Aircraft -> Fly -> Retry Previous Flight was
resetting the aircraft to the first player aircraft. Now it
will start in the last aircraft.
- Auto-Test script
2018/03/14 Oops, three months has passed while I was
playing with my FM77AV.
- Can put SRF models in FLD. (Can be done from the Scenery
Editor). Very long time ago, FLD had this feature but the
collision was checked against the bounding box. In this
update, the collision is checked per polygon. I really
wanted to add field-specific ground object, but anyway SRF in FLD
is also needed for complex terrain.
- Bug fix: If a DNM model defines rotation based on STATE 0, new
data structure was not transforming it as intended. Sorry, I
was not clear about which of no-transformation or STATE-0 is the
base orientation. I was thinking to make it
no-transformation, but looks like there are many models that are
assuming STATE-0 is the base. I'm leaning toward making
STATE-0 as the base orientation.
- Bug fix: Fireball renderer was not clearing Emissive color in
D3D9 code.
- I'm also experimenting with unit-test scripts. So far I
was able to automate selecting all items in Simulation menu,
selecting all default fields, and some config items. I need
to automate testing file menus and network features.
2017/12/22
- Bug fix: Change of "Default Field" in the config dialog
was not updating the starting points.
- Bug fix: "NO CLOUD" option was ignored.
- Bug fix: Full-Screen setting was ignored after restart.
- Bug fix: Fly-Heading-Bug auto pilot was ignoring
magnetic variation.
- Bug fix: ATC's heading instruction was ignoring magnetic
variation. (I think I fix it. Hope I didn't break it.)
- Bug fix: Starting-Position search text box in New-Flight
Dialog was not functioning. Selection changes, but not
really selected.
- Bug fix: Aircraft DNM not initialized in the
aircraft-selection dialog.
- Racing Mode (Still in the middle of making)
- Implemented Endurance Mode, Intercept Mission, Ground-to-Air
Mission, Close-Air-Support Mission as an extension. The first
goal is to reduce the running modes of the program into 5 modes:
GUI, Flying, Replay, Server, and Client. Those missions used to
be an independent mode, which was making the program very
difficult to maintain. Eventually I want to make Server and
Client as an extension, but that's the next stage.
I
learned a lot about C++ programming through YSFLIGHT. That
means in many places, I learned a better practice, which improved
my research / work code, but it was too late for YSFLIGHT.
Also known as code debt. I am cleaning those mess.
With this change, I still have three additional modes to turn into
an extension. So, if you can help me debugging it, I'll
appreciate if you can fly a few times of those missions.
2017/10/30
- Fixed shadow-map in the aircraft-selection screen. (It
took a while, but I just forgot enabling GL_DEPTH_TEST and
unmasking GL_DEPTH_BUFFER after drawing widgets.)
- Fixed NearZ in additional cockpit views.
- Zoom/Unzoom with mouse wheel even when Windows reported
rotation count smaller than the unit count.
2017/09/23
- Draws smoke trail (of airplanes and missiles) with particles
if use-particle option is on. If the new version is too slow
due to massive particles, turn off this option to draw clouds with
polygons.
2017/09/10
2017/05/17
- Config: Draw runway lights during the day "only if the
visibility is less than XX miles"
- Draws flare and black smoke with particles.
- Draws clouds with particles in YSFLIGHT on OpenGL 1.x and
Direct X9
- Vary point size for aircraft lights depend on the window size
(it was fixed 3 pixels.)
- I forgot copying sound DLLs for Linux. Now it is in.
- Sorry, I haven't been able to address all the bug reporst.
I'll try to get them done in the next update.
- (Forgot mentioning. Description added 5/21) The fog-density
calculation from visibility was wrong and is corrected. You
may feel the visibility is lower than earlier version, but if you
want a better visibility, change in the weather settings.
2017/03/14
- Sorry, Shadow-Map was off in the package I uploaded yesterday.
It takes too much time for pre-releaste test. So, I have
been trying to automate some of them. In the process, I
accidentally disabled the shadow map. The new package
re-enables the shadow map.
2017/03/13
- Console Server for macOS
- Maps are now drawn with depth-test turned on. I think
elevated maps are drawn correctly.
2017/01/22
- Multi-Language Input. Except Linux.
- Calculate transformation matrices in CPU in double precision.
This substantially reduces the shaking effect when the view point
is far away from the origin without much performance penalty.
By the way, in early days, a major misunderstanding was that the
matrix calculation was taking much of the computation in graphics.
It was wrong. Z-Buffering was the major headache around 1990
to 2000.
- YSFLIGHT on OpenGL 2.x uses shadow-mapping to draw shadow.
Now aircrafts and ground objects cast shadow nicely. By the
way, in the process of implementing, I have tried
Cascaded Shadow Map, which turned out to be utterly useless.
Most of, probably more than 99%, of the recent graphics techniques
cannot be used in the scene which covers 20 miles square. I
ended up coming up with my ad-hoc shadow-volume calculation, which
I think worked out well.
- Start-Position search box in the new-flight dialog.
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