WED Beta Release : WorldEditor 1.2.1 Beta 1

[Stephen]

 

Laminar Research have released a beta for World EDitor in version 1.2.1 b1. It is noted as a "bug patch", however it is more focused on usability.

 

Details:

• Locked and hidden items don’t cause clicks to select their parents.
• The interior of an airport boundary is not selectable – it never should have been.
• The marquee tool will never select the “world” entry on the hierarchy.
• The click hot spots of handles don’t shrink at low zoom – they were doing that before, which made clicking hard.

The 1.2.1 has also the revised library items ready for beta 10.25 (Noted as coming "real soon now") and the submissions of "Global Airports" to Robin Peel.

 

Ben Supnik noted in The Library: Public, Private and Deprecated that the current WED library system "is a big cluttered mess and it makes it hard to find and use art assets properly." So there is a need for a better filtering system.

 

Currently Ben has three categories for art assets:

• Public.  This is the stuff you should be using to make scenery packs.  The lego airport bricks are all public.
• Private.  This is stuff we meant to use as sub-parts of other art assets; they really should not have been exposed in the library.  (The right thing to do is to use the parent art asset.)  Often the private sub-parts contain fractions of a complete art asset and don’t make any sense on their own.
• Deprecated.  This is stuff that used to be public, but now isn’t a good idea to use.  Often the deprecated art assets contain empty stub objects, in place only to keep old scenery packs from crashing.  For example, there are actually library paths for X-Plane 7 ENV radio towers – these would be marked as deprecated.

These categories are for WED remember and not for X-Plane in private art assets, any private art assets will still work just as well under 10.25 as it did under 10.20.  The goal here is to filter the library to find "the good stuff faster" and "not use internals and old stuff by accident" in WorldEditor.

 

So with 1.2.1 it will filter out the private and deprecated library items, and make the library display a lot cleaner and more easier to use.

 

Any bugs in the 1.2.1 beta should be of course reported quickly.

 

For the full post then go to the:

 

X-Plane Developers Blog : WorldEditor 1.2.1 Beta 1 – Ease of Use (for Robin too)

 

WED Downloads are here : WorldEditor I X-Plane Developer

 

Stephen Dutton

 

12th October 2013