OpenSceneryX Changelog

What's new in OpenSceneryX 2.1.0

Mar 30, 2015

New scenery objects in this version:
An A320 in Jetblue livery (lit and unlit versions).
A B737-800 in Alaska Air Cargo livery.
A B737-800 in Delta livery.
A B767-400 in Delta livery.
A B777-200ER in Delta livery.
Another collection of various baggage carts.
A pair of wooden jetties and a floating pontoon.
A LearJet 60 in blue livery.
A large multi-storey car park.
A Finnish flag.
A 767-300 in JAL cargo livery.
A large hangar with attached workshop.
A collection of Fedex trucks, vans and trailers.
An Air New Zealand livery for all of Bertrand's aircraft.
Three black and yellow concrete barriers.
Three red and white concrete barriers.
Some dirt and tyre mark polygons.
Runway threshold marking polygon.
Asphalt and concrete surface type polygons.
Some surface crack polygons.
Some more chain link fence facades, in open and closed loop variants.
Asphalt and concrete surface border as lines to make surface boundaries look more natural.
Asphalt crack line.
A dashed white line.
A selection of wind turbines in various sizes and styles.
Two solar panel objects, one with 3 panels and one with 4.
An aluminium beer keg or barrel.
A propane gas canister.
An empty wooden cable reel.
A 6m shipping container in white and yellow.
A stack of paint tins.
An empty wooden pallet, a stack of empty wooden pallets and three pallets scattered around.
A pallet stacked with concrete blocks.
A green recycling bin.
A wooden box.
A wooden cabin.
A set of various metal hangars.
A stone house.
Modified scenery objects in this version:
All textures that contained any kind of night 'glow' have been deleted. In a couple of cases, where it was possible, the texture has been edited to remove the glow.
Airport small truck 2 replaced with more optimised version.
Rescaled the fire engine texture - 2048 is too big for X-Plane 8.
All Cessna C150s were re-exported to remove 'normals of the wrong length' errors.
The tree object has been replaced with an improved version to remove the 'halo' effect.
Other changes:
The developer pack now contains brief instructions on how to use OpenSceneryX with World Editor (WED).
Increased X-Plane required version from 8.5 to 8.6 and removed mention of X-Plane 8.6 support being required for the placeholder library, as we're on X-Plane 10 now.
Previous versions published a floodlight at objects/furniture/lights/flood, but this was inadvertantly removed in 2.0.0. This has been fixed.
More information is provided about each polygon in the docs: The horizontal and vertical texture scale, the layer group name, the layer offset and the surface type.
Moved the lines in lines/airport/zone_boundaries to a more general lines/solid_lines folder. They are still published to the old path too, for backward compatibility.

New in OpenSceneryX 2.0.0 (Sep 13, 2014)

New scenery objects in this version:
Some new vehicles - construction and tankers.
A standalone tree.
Red and green versions of the catering trucks.
A cellphone tower.
A spherical radar installation.
A mosque.
A collection of large metal hangars.
A collection of people in beachwear.
An additional collection of small fishing boats.
A collection of sailing catamarans.
A collection of outrigger canoes.
A 'runway closed' ground marking.
A yellow version of the large fire truck.
An oil fuelled power station.
An A320 in America West livery.
Some additional XSim animated loaders - grey, blue, red and UPS.
An additional XSim animated baggage cart - white.
A new floodlight.
An additional 'Penguins' variant of the Frontier A320 livery.
An ASOS (Automated Surface Observing System).
A large concrete ATC tower.
A B727-200 in Northern Air Cargo livery.
A B737-300 in America West livery.
Some more baggage carts.
Some more belt loaders.
Two cargo terminals.
A set of cargo pallets.
A Cessna Citation X jet.
An Embraer ERJ-190 jet in jetBlue livery.
An ERJ-145 in Jalways livery.
A Dassault Falcon 7X in two liveries.
A set of 3 more cargo lifts.
A set of 5 more forklifts.
A set of 6 fuel tanks.
An oil depot / fuel farm.
An 8-lamp floodlight.
A pair of street lamps.
A set of 11 suitcases.
A set of trucks and vans in UPS livery.
A United States Postal Service truck.
Two towers and an airport terminal.
A collection of military and utility aircraft - S-211, M-311, Be-200, Buccaneer S2, T-2.
Modified scenery objects in this version:
A complete audit of all objects has been done for X-Plane® 10 compaitibility. This involved removing all ground shadows, either by removing the shadow from the texture or removing the ground plane from the model. Also, all objects with unnecessary lit textures (i.e. those that don't have internal illumination) have had those lit textures removed. A future change will be to remove all lit textures from the entire library, as all illumination should be modelled in future using real lights.
Fixed z-buffer thrashing (flickering) on shadows on most of the vans.
Fixed error with incorrectly named light on the ASR11 radar object.
Fixed problem with the texture on the spherical water tower.
New version of large red fire truck added, removing a hard surface.
Updated F16C model with transparent cockpit.
The modern concrete ATC tower has had a lit texture added.
All road vehicles except construction and military are now published to many more virtual paths to allow for lots of choices for randomisation of traffic.
Other changes:
Developer pack now contains a large PDF reference book, containing everything in the library with screenshots.
Improved home page of website by adding download icons, extended intro paragraph and added links to all items in the navigation menu.
Content of website homepage is now above the table of contents.
Now automatically build sitemap.xml file for website SEO.
Fixed some XHTML (strict) validation errors on website.
Removed the info.txt files from the distribution - the authors names are still listed in the readme file. For this version, this reduces the number of files by 2087 and size by 8.6Mb.
Fixed bug in placeholder library - the placeholder for polygons was set to be a .lin file, causing X-Plane to fall over if the placeholder library is used and OpenSceneryX is not installed.
Fixed another bug in placeholder library - neither the line or polygon placeholders were working because the contents of minimal .lin and .pol files need a bit more defined than for the other scenery object types.
Floodlights are now published to both airport/furniture/lights/flood and furniture/lights/flood
Added sub-categories to airport vehicles in the docs.
Added breadcrumbs to release notes page.
Added share links to all doc pages.