Silent Wings 1.0.6
Recently, version 1.0.6 of the glider simulation Silent Wings was released after a long testing time, introducing the promised online multiplayer mode with a choice of servers, showing the current activity.
Other changes are:
- Ingame chat, press Enter to open it.
- Turbulence. The turbulence model is modeled so that you can find it where you would expect it in real life, i.e on the lee side of ridges, in wind shears, etc.
- In-flight help screen with a list of all keyboard commands (press ‘h’ to enable/disable).
- Output of movie files. You can now record your flying directly to MPEG1/2 or DivX. (Enable movie capture on the config page, and press ALT-R in flight to toggle recording).
- Improved thermal algorithms. Thermals will now follow ridge lines and release near the top.
- Improved performance: No more pauses while loading data. Better fps, especially on windows platform.
- Keyboard commands to steer the tow plane left or right (Y and U) during aerotows.
- Screen shot button (ALT+P). Images are saved in the Silent Wings folder.
- Improved in-flight waypoint menu (CTRL+D and ALT+D).
- Some cleanup of the launcher GUI, especially the configuration setup and main menu.
- Improved menus and GUI elements in the simulator.
- Some tuning of the flight models, especially the Ventus.
In the meantime two new flight models were released fo’ free. And while other scenery is offered likewise, another detailed scenery of the south east part of Norway (where the developers reside) was released for 49€.
Silent Wings and the new scenery are shareware and thus both playable for the famous “two weeks” before payment is necessary. Instead of downloading the many GBs of data, you can now order the game media itself for 9€ (including S&H) on DVD.
Download: [ Everything Silent Wings ]
