WolfViewer — Space Rabbit

WolfViewer — Space Rabbit (7.2.4 w65)

New vehicle HUDs

• Speedboat Helm.
  • Rev counter, a speed dial in knots (or km/h / mph), a compass with course over ground, the speed step (3/6) and an ON PLANE light.
  • Depth under the boat (red below 2 m), trim, fuel and an ahead / neutral / astern lever.
  • HORN, LIGHTS, ANCHOR and ENGINE buttons.
  • It also works with boats that have no Wolf script: it picks up the boat's own "Speed = N" in chat.
• Spaceship HUD.
  • Heading tape, pitch ladder and a flight-path marker.
  • Speed and altitude tapes, vertical speed and height above the ground.
  • Bars for fuel, boost, shield, hull and heat; BOOST, ASSIST, GEAR and ENGINE buttons.
  • Rocket mode shows big altitude and vertical speed, the apogee, the stage (1/3) and a big SEPARATE button.
• Submarine Helm.
  • Depth gauge (red past the sub's safe depth), how fast you are diving, distance to the sea bed, dive angle, ballast and dive planes.
  • Battery, oxygen and throttle.
  • A sonar scope sweeps for objects, avatars and land around you, with a PING button.
  • DIVE and SURFACE (hold), PERISCOPE, LIGHTS and ENGINE.
• Opening them. Each HUD has its own icon at the bottom right and a Wolf World menu item. When the vehicle's script says what it is, the dashboard shows the right design.
• Keys and buttons. Every new button can have its own key or controller button in Driving Controls.
• For vehicle makers. New wolfDashboard keys and wolfDriveInput buttons drive all three HUDs; see the LSL Guide on wolf-grid.com.
• Hide the Wolf icons. If you don't want the icons at the bottom right, untick Wolf World > Show Wolf Icons.

Tower Voice

• The tower talks to you while the autopilot flies. You hear:
  • Take-off: "Tower, runway one eight, wind two one zero at eight knots, cleared for take-off."
  • On the way: cleared to your destination airport.
  • Over the airport: "you are over the airport, please land the plane yourself".
• It uses the Wolf Territories voice and is on by default. Switch it off with Wolf World > Tower Voice (autopilot).
• The tower calls you by the first part of your user name. To use a different callsign, change the WolfTowerCallsign debug setting.

Autopilot

• Take-off. Line the plane up yourself, then engage the autopilot. It rolls straight down the heading the plane is pointing, rotates and climbs straight out. If the nose swings more than 15 degrees on the roll, it stops the take-off.
• Landing is up to you this time. Pick an airport and the autopilot flies you there, then circles over it. The tower tells you "Please land the plane yourself". Automatic landing is being reworked to handle airports among hills and short runways, and comes back in a later release.
• Anti-spin. If the plane stalls, spins or rolls over while the autopilot is flying, the deck shows SPIN RECOVERY. The autopilot levels the wings, gets the speed back and hands back once the plane is stable. It never points the nose at the ground near the ground.
• Climbs that suit the plane. A climb gives way to speed, so a small plane is never pulled up into a stall. Turns are gentler when low or slow.
• The artificial horizon now banks the right way on the flight deck and on the Spaceship HUD.
• No more phantom obstacles. The autopilot no longer climbs for things that aren't there, such as moving objects nearby. Before, that could hold a plane hundreds of metres too high.

Invisible Mode

• Turn it on from the Wolf World menu, before you log in or after. You appear offline: friends are not told you came online, and people who message you are told you are offline and that their message was saved. You still receive the messages.

Graphics Helper

• Wolf World > Graphics Helper (or Help on the login screen) shows your graphics card and what looks wrong.
• It has a switch for each graphics feature, so you can switch things off one at a time and see the difference.
• Put everything back returns every switch to how it was when you opened the window.
• Save diagnostic file saves a text file with your settings and logs to send to Wolf Territories support.

Fixes

• Dark interiors on some computers (Macs especially). The sea at the horizon is no longer drawn into the reflections that light the inside of buildings. Sky light that the viewer switched off after a graphics problem is now tried again once in each new release.
• Photo Effects switch off when you close their window.
• The bright fly-through cloud is off by default. It can be switched back on in Graphics Helper > Clouds to fly through.
• The bottom toolbar is centred on the screen again.
• Airports window: Teleport. A new Teleport button takes you to the airport you picked.
• The Airports window fetches a fresh list every time it opens.
• WatchWolf: Teleport. A new Teleport button takes you to the person you picked in the list.
• My Suitcase no longer scatters your folders when you come home from a hypergrid trip. A folder you got on the trip now comes home whole, to the top of your inventory. Only things you actually got on the trip are moved; anything you packed before you left stays in the suitcase. A folder that mixes the two is left in the suitcase as it is.