From
Thunderworks news dated 1 Jan 2011:
Happy New Year Everyone!
Are the wishes of Aerosoft and Thunderworks. We have accomplished a lot in 2010. For example, in the 2 to 3 months following our signing with Aerosoft, we added the following features:
- Clickable cockpits with animated switches
- Several HUD modes for the Harrier, including Reversionary mode
- Gunsight with depression settings, set wingspan, range etc
- New clouds method, able to render cloud formations at up to 120km distance with very little overhead (previous method was limited by sector size, causing severe pop up artifacts, and so was replaced)
- Cockpit self-shadows
- Time of day 24hrs simulation (displaying constellations at night, etc)
- New and improved models for several types of Anti-Aircraft units used in the 1982 conflict
- New AI helicopters
...and more; effectively setting JT firmly in the track of being a realistic sim focused in a specific public (true flight simmers of course!)