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World Wind 1.4.0 RC3 (06 Jan 2007)

New Features/Fixes IN 1.4

* Plugin: Movie Recorder (added avi xport)
* Plugin: Place Finder Loader (Supports more geocoders)
* Plugin: Satellite Tracker
* Plugin: Virtal Earth, downloads Microsoft local live data (must be loaded from the plugins menu, then activated by clicking the toolbar icon)
* Plugin: Improved WMS browser with GetCapabilities support
* Plugin: Waving flags
* Plugin: GPS Tracker
* Plugin: Animated 3D Clouds
* Plugin: Measure tool NG (unstable)
* Data: New NRL data
* Data: Boundaries served by WMS
* Data: WFS placenames
* Core: Added what's new in 1.4 page to coniguration wizard
* Core: New accurate sunshading
* Core: Support for 3D models
* Core: Atmosphere (Improved with atmospheric scattering)
* Core: Added widget support
* Core: Internal HTML Browser
* Core: Camera shakes/jitters/jumps fixed
* Widget: New scalebar
* Widget: Time controller
* Widget: 3D compass widget
* Installer: Removed background
* Installer: Mars, Moon, SDSS icons removed
* Installer: .Net 2.0 check
* Installer: Added command line tags NODOTNET, /NODX, /NOMDX) to skip detection of .NET, DirectX 9.0c, and Managed DirectX, to skip checks respectively.

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World Wind 1.4

* .Net 2.0
* 3D Lighting (http://issues.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/confluence/display/WWNET/3D+lighting)
* Atmospheric Scattering (http://issues.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/confluence/display/WWNET/Atmospheric+Scattering)
* Effects and Multi-Texturing (http://issues.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/confluence/display/WWNET/Effects+and+Multi-Texturing)
* KML Importer Improvements (http://issues.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/confluence/display/WWNET/KML+support+files)
* Scalebar Legend (http://issues.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/confluence/display/WWNET/Scale+Bar+Legend)
* New XML Configurations (http://issues.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/confluence/display/WWNET/XML+Configuration)
* Placemarks served via WFS [1] (http://issues.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/confluence/display/WWNET/Streaming+Placenames+via+WFS)
* Boundaries served by WMS
* New WMS Control
o WMS Time Control
* Enhanced Compass plugin
* Satellite Tracker plugin
* Widgets code
* Waving Flags + CIA World FactBook plugin
* HTML Browser
* Line Feature (http://issues.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/confluence/display/WWNET/LineFeature)
* Polygon Feature (http://issues.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/confluence/display/WWNET/PolygonFeature)
* Model Feature (http://issues.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/confluence/display/WWNET/Model+Feature+-+3D+Textured+Models)
* Animated 3D Clouds plugin
* Camera shakes/jitters/jumps fixed

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