RELEASE NOTES Sim Update 4 - 1.6.7.0
If you are playing on PC, outdated packages in your community folder may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behavior.
If you suffer from stability issues or long loading times, move your community package(s) to another folder before relaunching the title.
Known issues
- In career, you’ll encounter a soft-lock if a passive income is received.
- When switching lights on/off, especially when keeping the “$” (TOGGLE_ALL_LIGHTS) key/button pressed, there is a risk of the sim entering a deadlock - fixed in upcoming beta builds.
Stability & Performance
- Fixed a crash when closing / opening the weather panel multiple times
- Optimization of renderer
- Fixed instancing draw distance and limit its min size to 0.25%
- Fixed some infinite loadings
- Fixed a crash when opening the Aircraft Capture Tool
- Performance optimization of the terrain engine.
General Bug Fixes
- Fixed snowflakes and rain not being illuminated at night
- Fixed material emissive not being reset when turning lights off
- Fixed an issue where name plates were disappearing too fast when getting away from traffic
- Fixed non-Latin text rendering on banner
- Fixed access to some LLA Variables affecting radio var
- Added a sound when switching between tabs in the options
Aircraft
- Fixed an issue preventing AI Rotorcraft’s rotors from properly operating.
Airbus Helicopters H125
- The H125’s bottom display’s brightness can now be controlled using the INST LIGHT Knob.
Aircraft Core Systems
Hydraulic System
- Fixed an issue where the legacy hydraulic system did not work in SU4, which caused problems such as missing wheel braking on several aircraft (see forum topic: “No wheel braking (Several aircraft)”)
Career
- Fixed mission failed when crashing right after the skip to shutdown
World
- Fixed Blurry Sepia Night Lighting: Corrected night lighting to remove excessive bloom, and sepia masking - cities and surrounding land will appear darker and more realistic.
Traffic
Road Traffic
- Fixed traffic vehicles not moving on residential roads
Controls
- Fixed some actions not displaying in the control settings for Helicopters
DevMode
Scenery Editor
- Added forced altitude for VectorPlacement . Fixed instancing snapped to the ground too slowly.
SimObject Editor
- Fixed unable to remove some optional parameters from the UI
SDK
WASM API
- Fixed call to execute_calculator_code causing ctd
- Fixed WASI fd_write function returning an error when unable to write the requested number of bytes
- Fixed WASI fd_pwrite function missing conversion of iovs & nwritten pointers from linear memory to host memory (could lead to crashes)
- Fixed WASI fd_read function returning an error when unable to read the requested number of bytes
- Fixed WASI fd_pread function missing conversion of iovs & nread pointers from linear memory to host memory (could lead to crashes)
- Fixed fsVarsEnvironmentVarGet in Vars API
Exporter Blender
- Cleaned up shader nodes dedicated to export that remains in the original material
- Added warning when exporting presets with zero layers selected