Hello friends of virtual soaring!

I'm glad to announce that CumulusX! 1.9 is on final approach. Manuals are ready and beta testing is ongoing.

The main new features are:

• Precipitation effects: Thermal presence is now affected by rain, drizzle, or snow. Aircraft will have exta sink depending on strength of rain
  
• Better compatibility with FSRECORDER: Disable lift maintains now all visuals of thermal situation but leaves control entirely to FSRECORDER so smoothness problems and side effects as ground-wash in mid-air are gone
  
• Smoothness of lift in ground proximity has been improved
  
• Better model for thermals in proximity of slopes or summits
  
  And in licensed mode (or in the demo area):
  • Smooth cloud shadows
    
  • Birds in thermals everywhere (or only in blue thermals, or only the strong ones, or both)
    
  • A wing-levelling helper on start-roll of SmartTow
    

  The picture below shows a comparison of the previous cloud shadows and the new fuzzy shadows:

  

  This is a shot of an encounter with birds:

  

  I expect that the release will still be before Christmas,

  best regards,

  Peter

Sounds Great! Cannot Wait!

THANKS Peter

Scott

Great Peter!

Thx!

A Happy 2013 to you!!!!!