Version 3.0 was introduced more than a
year ago in March 2008. Since then my team and myself never stopped adding
new ideas and implementing new features to EuroScope. As we were a bit
uncontrolled on what should be available in the next release we simply lost
the momentum several time to become public for a favor of some new functions.
We are still full of ideas and requests, but finally we decided to make a
stop and prepare the next public release. If we were alone we would have
fixed more things we would have added some more gadgets to the program.
Therefore the beta team feels this is not the final version. But we know that
it if far more better then version 3.0, and we would
like to share the joy of controlling with EuroScope 3.1 with all the
controllers of VATSIM.
Some highlights of the new features:
·
Plug-in development environment:
Probably the biggest innovation in this release. Using it you can create your
own DLLs that can be loaded into EuroScope. As a programmer you can access
nearly all the information available about planes, flight plans, controllers
around. You are free to make code to add elements to a TAG, draw your own graphics to the radar screen or simply create a complete new
view of the traffic. Some plug-ins are available as
source code in the installer package.
·
Professional radar simulation: The main
idea is to forget some data we receive from the VATSIM servers and simulate
how the radar stations receive back data from the planes, how these data is
correlated to the flight plans sent. And if all work fine you can associate a
radar position to a flight plan (actually a plane). You can define antenna
positions, hole areas, primary and secondary ranges,
A+C and S mode transponder readouts. You also have simulated flight plan
track display.
·
Complete new TAG types to follow the new
possibilities.
·
New simulator features:
o
Connect to SweatBox server
o
More than 100 AC performance data is stored in EuroScope with the
possibility to change them in the scenario file
o
Accurate handling of the AC in high flight levels (simulating IAS and
Mach change)
o
Integration with Craig Phillip's ASE editor and scenario file
repository (download scenario directly from there)
o
Local FSD support for simulation sessions
·
Automatic sector file publication and
download.
·
Metric units.
·
Full VATSIM server status check at
startup.
·
The possibility to individually confirm
all message types.
·
The voice aliases: It is a complete new
(and I hope revolutionally) way to control text
only aircraft. We combined the Microsoft Speech Recognition SDK with a
regular expression like grammar definition (with sounds like capabilities).
These items altogether make the voice recognition stable and precise enough
to be used for text only aircraft.
·
Arrival and flight plan lists.
·
Support of VRC's SCT2 format files.
·
All symbols are now freely editable via
the symbology settings dialog.
·
The autotext messages are using aliases to allow changing them.
And many many more fixes and new features.
Have you ever imagined you could control
virtual flights as real as it gets?
Download the latest version of Euroscope and see for yourself.
Have you ever imagined you could control
virtual flights as real as it gets?
Download the latest version of EuroScope
and see for yourself. |