Curtis L. Olson writes:
Flight Gear version 0.57 is now available.
The Flight Gear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source,
multi-platform flight sim development project. Source code for the
entire project is available and licensed under the GPL.
For more information, please visit the Flight Gear web page
at:
New in Version 0.57:
- Converted to a simpler frame rate counting method.
- Fixed the AOA reading on the HUD.
- Removed gpc from the Lib section of distribution by request of
the gpc Author. The gpc license is unfortunately not compatible
with the GPL. I may look for an alternative library, or just
require that developers download this library separately. - First slew of changes from the MacOS porting effort contributed
by “Robert Puyol” <puyol@abvent.fr>. - Support for an arbitrary number of serial ports + additional
serial port output tweaks. - Serial output tweaks to make things more robust and act more
like a GPS. - Portability enhancements for Borland, Solaris, and SGI.
- Some internal class renaming and reorganizations. fgFLIGHT
becomes FGState. fgCONTROLS becomes FGControls. - Started work on an “external” flight model so the sim can be
driven from external input (serial port, network, file, etc.) - Fixed a problem that creeped in with setting the initial
startup altitude. This could cause an unrecoverable bounce and
you’d end up flipped on your back. Should be fixed now. - Sun now appears to grow in size as it gets very low in the
horizon. - Fixed a view frustum culling bug where the scene was not
accurately culled when your view was anything other than straight
forward.