Sailaway III news & patch notes

- New computation methods for tidal currents for both online and offline sailing - New edit window for tidal currents with more options to input the data - Tidal waterlevel in Sea popup menu now shows an arrow up or down to indicate whether the tide is rising or falling - J1 sail had a distortion in its shape - AR view was not disabled when you switched to another boat - Opting to prevent the sail event popup in your user account didn't prevent the popups - When sending a long range VHF chat message, the message did not show up in the history - Added 2 buttons on the Edit Tutorial screen to make a copy of your tutorial for yourself as backup or for someone else to translate - When a fish is spawned above waterlevel, it becomes invisible until its position is adjusted - User created WorldObjects were not correctly repositioned and removed when out of view range - If query to the primary OSM server fails, the query is send to an alternative server - Added an anemometer to the Hardware library under Instruments (modeled by Admiral) - Added a radar reflector to the Hardware library under Safety equipment (modeled by Admiral) - Added 2 LED navigation lights to the Hardware library (modeled by Admiral) - UI elements on sailor setting screen were overlapping at resolutions other than XGA. - It was no longer possible to slowly sail yourself free towards deeper waters when the boat ran aground - Rendering the instruments generated errors in the logfile on Windows only - It was possible to create a sail event whilst not owning a licensed copy of Sailaway III

Version changes: - Mizzen staysail had a weird distortion in its shape - Game controller settings for looking L/R, move and pull/ease lines were always reset to their default values if they were set to empty - Auto navigation on AWA didn’t work in no-GPS mode - Routine that automatically saves edits to route waypoints will now save the changes directly after each edit step - NMEA interface broadcasted magnetic heading where magnetic course over ground was expected - Added 2 decimals to HDG, TWA and AWA values in NMEA interface - Added an option to change the weight per crew member for training purposes. This allows you to sail a boat single handed that requires a larger crew for balance. - A sheet attached to the traveler car by a strap was not updated when the car was moved - Rewrote the routine that generates lightning flashes - When selecting another sailor, only the people that bought SA3 are now included in the search results - Sailaway Imoca has new sails (textures created by Admiral) and 1000 liter waterballast tanks - The disc of the compass from the hardware library did not rotate with the heading - Added a name field to identify objects you placed with the world editor more easily - Added support for HDR displays - On Windows: Direct3D12 is used when available, Direct3D11 is still used if not. Correction: It turns out there is a bug in Unity that causes Sailaway to crash when using Alt-Tab. Direct3D12 is therefore disabled until this issue is solved by Unity. - Upgraded to Unity 6000.3.7 - WIMWV entry in the NMEA interface now transmits the wind angle in 0-360 degree range - R/F keys had a preference for adjusting the engine throttle above the last selected line when the engine was switched on - After editing a boat design, the entire design is reloaded to reflect the changes - The window “While you were not on board” closes automatically when clicking in the world or using a hotkey - The map no longer zooms in when a new route is added to the My routes window - Fixed a server issue with retrieving tidal information - Added deck lights to hardware library and to the default cruiser and ketch models - Fixed sign inversion in the computations of crew weight in Z-direction - When a boat design is marked to disallow deck layout changes, this was not enforced. The winch icon will now be disabled in the My boats screen. - Adjusted mean waterlevels weren’t applied correctly

Version 1.25 of Sailaway III contains the following fixes, improvements and changes: - Added flocks of seagulls - Added a new rule to the start procedure for races. You can not pass the start line earlier than 2 minutes after the last teleport or after you came online. This will prevent people from deliberately dropping their boat in the start line just before the start signal. - Added a stopwatch to use during the start of a race - Boat polars are reduced with 2% when a boat quits or finishes a race after having spend less than 2% of the total sailed time online. This is to prevent boats from competing mostly offline with speeds based on their optimized polar. - Made foilers more responsive to waves - Rudder foils brought too much stability. As a result, boat designers will need to review the lateral position of the foils to prevent tipping forward or backward when foiling. To help with this there is an extra tweak slider in the boat designer. - Shifted lateral point further towards the side foils to reduce heel - Increased stability at small heel angles for boats with a flat bottom - Increased the weather helm effect slightly - Increased the strength of the wind shadow effect - Boats with all rudders pulled up will be unable to steer and be subject to weatherhelm - After loading a boat that has been sailing offline, there is a delay that reduces the amount of heel to prevent the boat from capsizing if it carries too much sail. This delay was 10 seconds, but has been increased to up to 60 seconds depending on the - Made the total mileage and mileage since logbook start available in the instrument designer and changed this mileage counter to be constantly updated by actual sailed miles excluding displacement by current. - The size of the winch handle is now adapts to the scale of the winch on which it is used - The position of the panel that shows the trim line length and the effect on the sail can now be preset in the instrument/dashboard editor by pressing the tiny pencil in the right top corner of the screen. Don't forget to switch off edit mode when you are done. It will save the changes. - Increased mouse wheel scroll speed on Macs - The modifier keys Alt-key and Windows-key are renamed Option-key and Command-key on Mac computers to prevent confusion - Added a guideline for the use of the global chat channel - Right-clicking as well as left-clicking the boat/sky/sea will now bring up the popup menu's - The Sky, Sea and Land popup menu's showed too much info in No-GPS mode - Reduced under water visibility - Removed the date from the cards of challenges in the selection window of sail events since challenges don't have a startdate by definition - Added visual error message when failing to register the passing of a race mark online - Added visual error message when failing to save the position or status of the boat - Added a warning message when trying to log in with the same account on multiple computers at the same time - Background music player only played the first song due to an incorrect download url - Some audio sources were defined as partially 2D instead of full 3D, causing them to remain audible at larger distances - After using the search input field in the market place, the product textures were not loaded - Fixed synced sea mark lights that weren't synced after reload - Added a minimum size to the illuminated light beam of fixed seamark lights to make them better visible close by - GamePad control settings were incorrectly saved - Default length of trim lines couldn't be adjusted in the boat designer - A windex arrow up in the mast was positioned wrong due to in incorrect implementation of mast bend

Check out https://sailaway.world/releasenotes for a list of changes. https://sailaway.world/img/Sailaway_screenshot_2025-04-12_13-22-07.7.png

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Check https://sailaway.world/releasenotes for a list of all the changes

A new trim line system and a ton of improvements and bug fixes. Check out the full list of changes on https://sailaway.world/releasenotes https://sailaway.world/img/v1_18NowOnline.png