X-Plane 8.61 Release Candidate available

by mark.avey on October 1, 2007

You can now download the release candidate of X-Plane 8.61 for Mac, Windows and Linux. As Austin - X-Plane’s author - points out, “This is NOT a very exciting release… just a few bug-fixes to be sure everyone is running well!”.

Changes

X-Plane now warns if taxiway layout lacks closing code
No more crash when snow is shown on custom polygons
layer group is now fixed for .pol files
beziers are now being rotated at scenery shift!
objects now lay flat even when scenery shifts, no longer in air
split beziers work in airports
airplane objects no longer use extra memory
high detailed world defaulted to OFF, safer for users with buggy video drivers
place at airport should work properly now, all the time
FMS uses FLCH to make altitude changes, which avoids stalls
individual prop, throttle, and mixture controls now work.
dry lake bed and gravel helipads are now available
bogus airport polygon terrain types are now removed.
taxiway signs: hazard-sign added, no-entry-sign corrected
a few more plugin datarefs have been added
multiple v7-style lights in an OBJ - now they ALL show!
v8 objects with lots of lights show them ALL now - sometimes lights were missing before.

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