X-Plane 9.20 Beta 7 released

by mark.avey on July 20, 2008

X-Plane 9.20 is shaping up to be a major release with a tremendous number of changes being introduced almost weekly. Here’s the changes so far for Beta 7:

Double HUD gone on f-22
Cowl-flap open/closed commands
Commands for various views in Plane-Maker
Zoom-control speeds tuned just a hair in x-plane
You can open flight plans in the FMS with the LD button all the time now
Engines can be re-lit on the jets a bit easier after going negative-g and starving them for fuel
Generic annunciators should activate with the annunciator test
No more flight-director activation from getting a stall warning (unless, of course, the servos are engaged, at which point they WILL cut out to flight-dir only)
Generic triggers show correct animation when combined with ATTR_cockpit_region
Lighting on instruments in the sim tuned
Auto-update of the beta works in the sim again. (You must get beta 7 first, then it will work.)
Fixed transparency problem with ATTR_cockpit_region on Geforce 7 hardware
Mouse wheel for Mighty Mouse is less sensitive
All aspects of panel editor saved to prefs
Panel editor layout reorganised
New cursor options for generic instruments
Generic instruments can have holes and other customization of hot spots
Reload textures command also reloads panel background.

New Features for Panels

Instruments can have custom help tips - now you can add help tips for generic instruments
Instruments can have comments - use this to keep notes while you work in PlaneMaker
PlaneMaker has error checking mode - hilites problems with generic instruments
New command to reveal the selected instruments in the hierarchy - this opens the parent groups
You can add an instrument by dragging its name
Double-click the panel splitters to minimize panes

Bug fixes in Panel Editor

Needles, pies and tapes from 902 planes will “clamp” correctly
If you have ALREADY saved your plane in 920 format, you must manually fix this by adding more key frames
Fixed crash while typing
Fixed crash when adding instrument
Preview of rotarie works even if key frame table is out of order
Fixed labels for generic instrument conditions