[flysimdev]

What's new

• Towns lit at night. X-Plane's own scenery glows after dark where there are towns, but until now the photo scenery stayed dark there, apart from X-Plane's 3D roads and buildings. Turn on Light the towns at night in the new Settings › Night tab, and the photo scenery gets street lamps, their glow and the light of the houses along X-Plane's roads, beside the roads so that 3D roads (X-Plane's or simHeaven's) do not cover it. Town centres are fully lit, villages less, and the open country has only a few lamps along the roads. X-Plane fades the lights in at dusk by itself.
• Skip the photos at night. At night the ground is too dark to see much of the photos, so downloading them in full detail mostly costs bandwidth. Turn on Skip the photos at night, also in Settings › Night, and OrthoStreamXP downloads no detailed photos while it is dark in X-Plane. The ground shows a lower zoom level version of the photos instead, and the night lights shine on it as usual. Places you have flown over before stay sharp, and around sunset and sunrise the photos download as usual.
• Out of X-Plane's way. When you start X-Plane with Fly on the Home page, OrthoStreamXP waits until X-Plane's window is in front, then moves to the notification area next to the clock. Click its icon to open the window again, or right-click it for Open OrthoStreamXP and Exit. When X-Plane quits, the window comes back on the Home page, ready to stop the scenery and show your flight report.

Good to know

• Both night switches are Off after updating. Like every setting, they can be changed only while OrthoStreamXP is stopped, and the change applies from the next start.
• The night lights follow the roads in your overlay packages: the OrthoStream_Overlays package installed with your regions, or another overlay package in Custom Scenery. Where no overlay package covers an area, its photo scenery stays dark at night.
• The lights for an area are made the first time X-Plane loads it, so the first flight over a new area uses a little more processor time. They are then kept in the cache with that area's photos, at about 50 KB per tile. Your scenery packages are not changed.
• With Skip the photos at night on, the area where a flight starts still gets its photos, even at night. Ground loaded during the night stays with lower zoom level before sunrise.
• OrthoStreamXP moves to the notification area only when Fly started X-Plane. If you start X-Plane yourself, the window stays where it is. Exit in the icon's menu still asks first while the scenery is streaming.