What's new in 1.3.4
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Introduction
This is a working document for information on NASA WorldWind's 1.3.4 release. NASA WorldWind version 1.3.4 is expected to enter beta testing the first week of April 2006 and be released mid April.
What's New
New Included Plugins
In this release, we're including some of the best community-contributed plugins:
- KML Importing: this will allow compatibility with Google Earth placemarks, network links, and more, via ShockFire
- Movie Recorder: Movie recording script. Plays back a script file with camera positions and records each frame to sequentially numbered bitmap files on disk, via Mashi
- Measuring tool: measure distances/bearings on the globe, via Mashi
- Starfield: adds a dynamicaly rendered starfield background to World Wind using data from the Hipparcos catalog, via Patrick Murris
- Compass Rose: renders a compass in WorldWind, via Patrick Murris
- Clock: On-screen clock, via Mashi
Updated Earth Datasets
Better, sharper imagery.
- 15m pansharpened Landsat mosaic (comparison images, courtesy Bull); refer to WWForums post NLT Landsat Pansharpened...? (get details from ddh)
- Improved elevation data based on SRTM+ and SRTM
- ZoomIt! data: Additional datasets for parts of the US (MA, NY, IN, FL) and South Africa's Robben Island (approved but not added yet, problems with network layer loading?)
New Extraterrestrial Datasets
Exciting new uses for exploring our world and beyond.
- In addition to the Moon which debuted in 1.3.3, we now have Mars!
- see TServo's Blog post I give you Mars
- SDSS: View the galaxy with outer-space imagery from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- see TServo's Blog post Sloan Digital Sky Survey Images in World Wind
Bug Fixes
- review SVN commit logs for bugfix list