RELEASE NOTES Sim Update 6 Beta - 1.8.9.0
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If you suffer from stability issues or long loading times, move your community package(s) to another folder before relaunching the title.
Stability & Performance
- Fixed loading of WASM systems and improved error handling (was causing infinite loading for some aircraft such as the ES30)
General Bug Fixes
- Fixed the order of the cameras in the panel camera
- Fixed flight outro scene sometimes displaying in the air
Glass Cockpits
Garmin G3000 / G5000
- Fixed an issue where the PFD flight director symbol would briefly appear in the incorrect location after toggling the flight director on.
Garmin G3X Touch
- Fixed an issue where the PFD flight director symbol would briefly appear in the incorrect location after toggling the flight director on.
UNS-1Ew SBAS-Flight Management System
- Fixed the fuel flow page using incorrect units with the modern fuel system
Flight System
NavData
- Fixed path point threshold crossing height values.
Aircraft Engines
Turbine Engines
- Added the TURB_ENG_COMMANDED_N1_OVERRIDE_ACTIVE SimVar to enable external control of commanded Ne via TURB_ENG_COMMANDED_N1. See SDK for details.
- Added an optional “delta_commanded_Ne_control” parameter to the [TURBINEENGINEDATA] section of engines.cfg. It specifies whether the first argument of “delta_commanded_Ne_table” represents the condition lever position or the mixture lever position. See SDK for details.
- Added validation of the number of arguments, argument ranges, and data values for the following commanded Ne multi-dimensional tables:
- corrected_commanded_Ne_table
- uncorrected_commanded_Ne_table
- delta_commanded_Ne_table
- Refined the descriptions of the recently added “full_throttle_commanded_n1”, “corrected_commanded_ne_table”, and “delta_commanded_ne_table” parameters in the Package Analyzer (File Def) checks.
Career
General Bug Fixes
- Fixed visibility and wind information discrepancy between world map and briefing information.
Missions
Medevac
- Fixed an issue where the airport selected for rerouting was always the same
- Fixed an issue that caused the flight plan to be deleted when an IFR flight was cancelled
- Fixed the flight path gates and waypoint marker confusing behavior when switching to the new reroute flight plan
Peripherals
- Added options to enable/disable mouse acceleration for “Cockpit” and “External” cameras under Settings > General > Camera > Cockpit/External Camera
- Updated supported gamepads default airplanes presets:
- Changed TOGGLE LANDING GEAR" to happen on release
- Remapped “TOGGLE WATER RUDDER” to [D-pad right] after a delay
- Unmapped “TOGGLE TAIL HOOK HANDLE”
- Updated supported gamepads default airplanes and others presets :
- Mapped “DECREASE/INCREASE PROPELLER PITCH” to [RB + Dpad Left/Right]/[R1 + Dpad Left/Right]
DevMode
General
- Added allowed buttons in Input Device Editor
- Improved debug vector shape
- The debug airport is now showing the airport archetype
Project Editor
- Fixed crash when capturing aircraft thumbnail for aircraft with incorrect static height
- Fixed incorrect size of thumbnail capture, now capture in 360x240 as required
SDK
SimConnect
- Fixed MapInputEventToClientEvent registering actions on joystick button 0 when an invalid button index was provided - now triggers a SimConnect exception
Tools
- Added new 3dsMax - Blender Bridge: A tool for transferring data between 3ds Max and Blender.
- Added possibility to enable masking of cubemap reflections on windshields inside cockpits using the Reflection(R), Roughness(G), AO(B) Texture of the windshield material in Blender and 3ds Max.
- Added possibility to attenuate screen space reflections on windhsields inside cockpits to the windhsield material in Blender and 3ds Max.
Documentation
- SimVars: a new helicopter SimVar -
FREEWHEELING UNIT ENGAGEDhas been added to the documentation. - The section on modular simobject merging has beeen updated with missing XML information.