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.
