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| DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP |
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All the items listed in the roadmap are sorted by priority
Click on the icon to see all the actions performed during the item development
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KNOWN ISSUES
This section contains all the known issues for the completed features
These items are of the top priority but may not be resolved in the next update
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IMMEDIATE ITEMS
This section contains all the items that will be addressed during next update
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 | WIP | Atmosphere optimization |
| WIP | Atmosphere optimization | | | Volume atmosphere rendering is very resource demanding therefore requires architecture change in order to improve performance and anti-aliasing. This may slightly affect visual quality and will make atmosphere rendering procedures more complicated but will improve atmosphere performance by 80-90% in clear sky conditions. | | | | 1.10 | Changed | Calculations for scattering, perspective and optical depth have been separated. | | | | 1.10 | Changed | The entire scene lighting is now calculated dynamically for the key points. | | | | 1.10 | Changed | Scenery albedo now dynamically adjusted for a better environment representation. | | | | 1.10 | Changed | Low level haze scattering calculation allows variable particle size. | | |
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| WIP | Clouds volumetrics |
| WIP | Clouds volumetrics | | | Implementation of the volume rendering with raymarching. Will start with simplified algorythms and move towards excessive abuse of the GPU. | | | | 1.10 | Added | Volume rendered clouds. | | | | 1.10 | Removed | Resolution slider has been removed. | | | | 1.10 | Removed | Complexity slider has been removed. | | | | 1.10 | Removed | Reflections range slider has been removed. | | | | 1.10 | Removed | Detailed range slider has been removed. | | |
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| WIP | Wind and turbulence re-evaluation & adjustment |
| WIP | Wind and turbulence re-evaluation & adjustment | | | Turbulence shall be yet again evaluated by subjective match using real line crew feedback immediately off the flight if possible. | | | | 1.04 | Changed | Maximum turbulence slider value has been increased up to 200%. | | | | 1.04 | Changed | Turbulence has been checked for few known areas and ratios adjusted to some realistic levels. | | | | 1.04 | Changed | Wind model has been adjusted to have more accurate behaviour. | | | | 1.06 | Added | Maximum wind speed slider with range 0-100%. Affecting wind speeds at all levels. | | | | 1.07 | Changed | Maximum wind speed now set in Knots. | | | | | ALOFT data density has been increased. Submitted for evaluation to determine if this density is sufficient. | | | | 1.07 | Changed | Wind distribution has been changed to improve ATC reliability. | | | | 1.08 | Changed | Turbulence model adjusted to have less evenly distributed areas of the same air velocity. | | | | 1.10 | Changed | Turbulence slider now controls the average amount of flow disturbance. | | | | 1.10 | Changed | ALOFT data format has been changed, sampling rate increased, vorticity data added. | | |
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| WIP | Post-processing |
| WIP | Post-processing | | | Special effects in post-processing shader. | | | | 1.08 | Added | Post-processing shader is back. | | | | 1.08 | Added | Sun glare. | | | | 1.08 | Added | Camera lens flare effect. | | | | 1.08 | Added | Checkbox to display or remove lens flare effect. | | | | 1.09 | Added | Checkbox to display crepuscular rays. | | | | 1.10 | Added | New alternative sun glare. | | | | 1.10 | Added | Checkbox to display or remove diffraction spikes. | | | | 1.10 | Removed | Post processing checkbox removed. | | |
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WORK IN PROGRESS ITEMS
Items in this section are being worked on but cannot be guaranteed to be finalized in the next update
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| WIP | Crepuscular rays |
| WIP | Crepuscular rays | | | Crepuscular rays, God rays, light shafts - pick your favourite name. | | | | 1.09 | Added | Crepuscular rays. | | | | 1.10 | Removed | Crepuscular rays temporary removed. | | | | 1.10 | Added | Volume shadows for haze. | | | | 1.10 | Removed | Draw crepuscular rays checkbox has been removed. | | |
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| WIP | Scenery and Airport Lighting |
| WIP | Scenery and Airport Lighting | | | Ground scenery lights management and airports lights management will be addressed in this section. Will make attempts to make all the ground light sources to smoothly blend with haze and slowly disappear with distance. | | | | 1.10 | Changed | Airport lights range has been adjusted to match the actual visibility range. | | |
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| WIP | SDK |
| WIP | SDK | | | Custom datarefs and other means to access internal weather data for aircraft and add-on developers. | | | | 1.07 | Added | General status dataref. | | | | 1.07 | Added | Dataref for the weather radar data (precipitation echo). | | | | 1.08 | Added | Rain intensity dataref. | | | | 1.08 | Added | Snow intensity dataref. | | | | 1.08 | Added | Terrain surface condition dataref. | | |
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 | New Event | Variable volumetric haze |
| New Event | Variable volumetric haze | | | No more uniform haze, every area will have its own depth and visibility range. | | |
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| New Event | Visible precipitation volume |
| New Event | Visible precipitation volume | | | Visible areas and volumes of rain and snow below the clouds. | | |
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| WIP | Lookup and report current weather conditions |
| WIP | Lookup and report current weather conditions | | | METAR report lookup for selected airfield of station | | | | 1.07 | Added | Weather Briefing window added. Displays METAR for 20 nearby stations. | | |
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| WIP | Night environment |
| WIP | Night environment | | | Moon, planets and stars implementation. Ambient and reflected light reworks. | | | | 1.08 | Added | Moon with position and phase based on the current system date and time. | | |
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| WIP | Water environment |
| WIP | Water environment | | | Enhanced water representation. | | | | 1.10 | Added | Parameters for water waves adjusted to match current weather. | | |
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| WIP | Environment visual effects |
| WIP | Environment visual effects | | | Rain, snow, hail, lightning, etc. | | | | 1.10 | Changed | New rain effect. | | | | 1.10 | Changed | New snow effect. | | | | 1.10 | Changed | Rain and snow affected by aircraft lights. | | | | 1.10 | Changed | Volumetric landing and taxi light beams. | | | | 1.10 | Removed | Remove scenery shadows under overcast checkbox removed. | | |
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| WIP | Scenery and seasons |
| WIP | Scenery and seasons | | | Features for scenery visual effects and seasonal data available for scenery developers. Details will be published in the corresponding section of xEnviro SDK. | | | | 1.08 | Added | Seasonal data now calculated and accumulated on the server. | | | | 1.08 | Added | Terrain surface condition data now calculated and accumulated on the server. | | | | 1.08 | Added | xEnviro now publishes seasonal data for the scenery developers. Details can be found in the SDK. | | | | 1.10 | Added | Dynamic snow coverage in the mountain areas. | | | | 1.10 | Added | Dynamic surface snow coverage. | | | | 1.10 | Added | Dark airport surface when wet. | | | | 1.10 | Changed | Default surface drifting snow removed at runtime. | | | | 1.10 | Added | Maximum snow coverage slider. | | |
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FUTURE ITEMS
Items that will be implemented in the future development
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| New Event | Multimonitor support |
| New Event | Multimonitor support | | | Adjustments to accomodate multiple monitor feature available in X-Plane 11. | | |
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| New Event | VR support |
| New Event | VR support | | | We demand full VR support. | | |
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| New Event | Historical weather |
| New Event | Historical weather |
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| New Event | VATSIM & IVAO network weather |
| New Event | VATSIM & IVAO network weather |
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| New Event | Mac OS version |
| New Event | Mac OS version |
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