NASA Worldwind 1.4RC is out

I never got to post it, but NASA Worldwind 1.4RC was released on December 23rd. I think Chad has been bugging me to post about it for a couple of days, but I’ve been kind of oblivious to his proding.

Since we all love to know what is new, here is the “What’s New” list:

• Plugin: Movie Recorder (added avi xport)

• Plugin: Place Finder Loader (Supports more geocoders)
• Plugin: Satellite Tracker
• Plugin: Virtal Earth, downloads Microsoft local live data (must be loaded from the plugins menu, then activated by clicking the toolbar icon)
• Plugin: Improved WMS browser with GetCapabilities support
• Data: New NRL data
• Data: WFS placenames and boundaries
• Core: New accurate sunshading
• Core: Support for 3D models
• Core: Atmosphere (Improved with atmospheric scattering)
• Core: Added widget support
• Widget: New scalebar
• Widget: Time controller
• Widget: 3D compass widget
• Installer: Removed background
• Installer: Mars, Moon, SDSS icons removed
• Installer: .Net 2.0 check

• Installer: Added command line tags NODOTNET, /NODX, /NOMDX) to skip detection of .NET, DirectX 9.0c, and Managed DirectX, to skip checks respectively.

The bug list for RC2 is here.