Carenado Aircraft update : PA34 200T Seneca II ver 2.0

[Stephen]

 

Carenado has announced the update of the PA34 200T Seneca II to ver 2.0, including an update to the SASL plugin system to v2.0.1.

 

 

This version is compatible with X-Plane 9.7, X-Plane 10.21 32-bit, and X-Plane 10.21 64-bit on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. Overhauled plugin-enhanced sound and lighting, enhanced user interface, X-Plane 10 optimizations, and many further improvements. (Full release notes are noted below).

These packages run on either X-Plane 9.70 or X-Plane 10.22 so customers who bought them for X-Plane 9 could run them in X-Plane 10 without any problem. Existing customers can simply re-download the complete package from the online store they originally got it from to update to the latest version.

The free update is highly recommended for all existing PA34 Seneca customers.

 

PA34 200T SENECA II is available from the X-Plane .org Store for $27.95 - Carenado PA34 200T Seneca II

 

Developer Site: Carenado

 

Version v2.0 update notes:

- 32-bit and 64-bit Mac, Windows, and Linux support.  
-Updated SASL to official v2.0.1 release, which contains optimizations that benefit from Laminar's X-Plane 10.22 release.

-Fully re-programmed stereo 3D sound, with new dynamic effects and more efficient, cleaner sound.
-Interior lighting optimized for X-Plane v9 and v10.
-Overhauled lighting system.  Lighting halos for nav and strobe lights are now more visible under certain viewing angles.
-Landing light features tightly-focused "glare" effect when viewed from the right angle.
-Nav lights have been improved for a more realistic appearance.
-Improved ground handling

-No longer has inverted fuel and oil systems. More realistic.
-Optimized "options" menu, to use less memory.
-Optimized "Cameras" menu to use less memory
-Tweaked volume knob for engine sounds ("Sq" knob on Com radio)
-Tweaked turning radius on ground to compensate for new v10 no-toe-brake-with-rudder setting.
-Adjusted elevator trim characteristics
-Adjusted trim time from centre to max for v10, as this setting, left un-addressed, will cause the same plane to take twice as long to trim.
-Added wheel chocks and pitot cover for when engine is off and plane is on the ground. (Option available via "O" menu, and is only available under the mentioned conditions)
-tweaked gauges, such as fuel and oil pressure, vacuum, etc. to conform to v10's new way of calculating "Nominal pressure/temperature" as opposed to "Max pressure/temperature".
-Programmed default camera snap points for v10 (on top of existing ones via "Cameras" pop-up menu)
-Provided 4k HD paint kit (in Liveries folder) (Suitable for v10 only).

2 Different .acf files: one for v9 and one for v10.
-v10 .acf features optimized objects.  Interior/exterior shading is applied only where needed, saving resources.
-v10 .acf has further optimizations to objects that don't need the background (clouds, skies) to be drawn through them, if they're not transparent, saving further resources.
-v10 .acf also protects certain textures from resolution degradation at low rendering settings.  This guarantees that the panel instruments and text are always crisp and clear, no matter what rendering settings are chosen for the sim.
-v10 .acf is optimized to make use of HDR rendering, especially in terms of lighting.  This includes spill lights, which illuminate the surroundings, coming from Nav and Strobe lights.  
-When HDR mode is turned off, care has been taken to optimize the appearance of the plane without the enhancement benefits of HDR.
 

2nd August 2013