DreamFoil has been working very hard on a plethora of new and cool stuff for the new version. The price will be the same as the previous version (US$35) but owners of the previous version will be entitled to a nice discount: these users will only pay US$15 for this amazing update. Pretty nice!
DreamFoil went above and beyond with the cool cart and the blade ties you can see on the video above but they have pack-filled this update with great stuff. Check it out:
Features
- HeliSAS/Autopilot implemented
- Deprecated "rigid cruise" and "arcade mode" functions
- Added blade tie system so each blade can be tied to their positions by clicking and dragging their tips
- New electrical cart for moving the helicopter on ground
Graphics
- Added interior normal maps
- Improved gauges bar display visibility
- Removed _lit textures for 5 objects on interior
- New seat and interior textures that take advantage of PBR
- Cabin lights are now on their real place and using spill lights
- Framerate improve with obj optimized by removing ghost animations
- New 3D propeller for tail rotor
- Fixed rotor blur/shadow issue with clouds
- Improved pedal stop light logics
- Fixed small fliped quad on left side of headphone
Sound
- New skin for DreamEngine config window to match XP11 ui
- Added DreamEngine volumetric cabin
UI
- SmartLivery now uses X-Plane 11 thumb icons
- Added mouse scroll to manipulators
- Added ability to manually rotate the rotor from outside
- Added GPU external manipulator
- Added Garmin430 power button manipulator
- Added engine inlet/outlet/pitot caps can be manipulated individualy from outside without need to go in menu for adding them
- Moved external menu from nose tip to side of nose, this was necessary to add the pitot cap manipulator
- Improved SmartMenu icons visibility and interaction radius
- Improved battery compartment handling, it's not necessary to go on menu to open/close it anymore
- Improved doors external interaction, now it's possible to choose between go inside or just open the door
Flight Model
- Improved airfoil drag curve, now helicopter will cruise at a realistic speed
- Fixed torque on ground with flight rpm, will display correct value now
- Improved landing gear adaptation during plugin start to avoid helicopter "drop" at ground
- Recalibrated NG to match the correct rpm on various power settings
- Fixed MGT temperature during start and flight should give an more accurate reading
- Improved fuel flow
- Fixed wrong idle speed
- Improved rotor slowdown during shutdown, will not keep spinning forever
- Frahm Damper now affects the flight model
Others
- Clock now displays the Estimated Time from HSI
- Added shutdown command for starter switch
Expect this model to be released within the next few days.