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Airport Design Editor version 1.20 is now available. This a significant upgrade to the Program and contains many fixes and functional enhancements. It also see the merging of Home and Pro Edition functionality. As of version 1.20 there is only one edition of ADE.
Major new functionality includes the creation and manipulation of terrain elements such as airport backgrounds, land class and exclusions. There is no longer any need to use a separate utility to modify the terrain at your airport. Also ADE now loads the generic buildings, library objects, windsocks and fuel triggers with a stock airport. Once included you can move, delete or otherwise modify these items and ADE automatically takes care of excluding the stock objects. You can add stock library objects and ADE makes it simple to accurately enhance your local airport with easy access to around 450 common objects including library objects, windsocks and fuel triggers.
Other enhancements include copy/paste; display the XML code for the airport or any object, and automatic updating of ILS, Starts and runway links when a runway is renumbered.
ADE 1.20 is delivered via an installer that also allows you to download the tutorials. A new installation and configuration tutorial is released alongside providing information on setting up this new version.
The full package is available from http://www.scruffyduck.co.uk/files/ade_120.zip
Full Change Log for Version 1.20
NEW
UPDATED
FIXED
Major new functionality includes the creation and manipulation of terrain elements such as airport backgrounds, land class and exclusions. There is no longer any need to use a separate utility to modify the terrain at your airport. Also ADE now loads the generic buildings, library objects, windsocks and fuel triggers with a stock airport. Once included you can move, delete or otherwise modify these items and ADE automatically takes care of excluding the stock objects. You can add stock library objects and ADE makes it simple to accurately enhance your local airport with easy access to around 450 common objects including library objects, windsocks and fuel triggers.
Other enhancements include copy/paste; display the XML code for the airport or any object, and automatic updating of ILS, Starts and runway links when a runway is renumbered.
ADE 1.20 is delivered via an installer that also allows you to download the tutorials. A new installation and configuration tutorial is released alongside providing information on setting up this new version.
The full package is available from http://www.scruffyduck.co.uk/files/ade_120.zip
Full Change Log for Version 1.20
NEW
- There is now only a single version of ADE (Home and Pro Editions are merged)
- Option to pass Approach Data through ADE
- Display Element XML
- Automatic search for folder paths
- Position Markers
- Terminal waypoints are now displayed. They can be moved but not deleted
- Terrain polygons using Shp2Vec. ADE includes exclusions, airport backgrounds (includng flattens) and land class
- Stock objects such as generic buildings, library objects, windsocks and fuel triggers are now loaded with a stock airport. They are automatically excluded in the stock file so that the user can move, delete or modify them in the ADE file.
- Set Scenery Complexity in ADE to match that in FSX and ADE displays only those objects that will be displayed in FSX.
- Project versioning. Users can now set a version number of their ade projects and keep multiple versions
- Re numbering runways will automatically renumber ILS, Starts and runway links.
- ADE remembers user settings for apron surface, taxi link surface/width, gate type and Scenery Complexity
- Fault finder reports duplicate parking spots. That is having same type, name and number
- Esc key as short cut to return to pointer mode
- Closed runway markings are now displayed
- ModelData is now removed from incoming Bgl files
- Creation of backup file when saving airport in ade format
- Check that FSX is not using the bgl file before attempting a compile. If ADE finds that the bgl file is in use it warns and aborts the compile
UPDATED
- The way that ADE creates exclusions
- The way in which screen is re-drawn when updating multiple objects
- New User Wizard and Option Settings
- Rotate all rotatable objects with mouse wheel and Alt key
- ADE now auto surfaces links on aprons when link is created
- Way in which taxi junctions are drawn
- Display shows length and heading of guideline when being drawn
- ADE now reads only stock airports into stock airport list
- Can now cancel a new object from the properties dialog
- Show/Hide the entire taxi and parking network
- Stock airport list now shows the folder and file for the selected airport
- Parking Tee offsets now shown in user defined units and not just meters
- ADE now recognizes changes to vertex point will require file to be saved
- No longer assign a com frequency that is used by a nearby (25nm) airport
- MRU airline list now remembered between sessions
- Markers now drawn respecting heading
- Users can no longer delete a runway that has user defined ILS associated with it. The ILS must be deleted first
- Type NONE for parking spot is no longer allowed. Any found in input changed to RAMP_GA
- Only valid Com frequencies are allowed. New dialog selects random frequency
- Property Dialog no longer stays on top of all other windows and applications
FIXED
- CTD where background image file not found
- Background color problem in Fault Finder
- Bug that turned off Hold Short Limit display when loading a new airport
- Bug that caused CTD when double clicking in an open space
- Bug that stopped ILS DME from being moved
- Bug that stopped user from inserting a node into a link when the display is rotated
- Bug where Com frequency cannot be added if a stock freq is selected
- Bug with ILS frequencies when regional setting is for comma decimal separator
- Bug where after multi select of links link type box goes missing from dialog
- Handling of cardinal runway numbers (N,S,E.W etc)
- Problems with DME/GS handling and Undo/Redo
- Bug that caused CTD when deleting runway with user Ils
- Drawing error on long taxi links
- Missing label for altitude box on helipad properties
- Com frequency range to make it valid
- Blank Airline list box in Parking Properties that generated error message
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