Thanks, I’ll ask Austin. And I understand that if it’s not in 10.40 now, that it won’t be in 10.40.

You will find all sorts of crazy stuff if you look at the shader code – in fact, you’d have found bits and pieces of shadows in v9.0 – we thought we’d ship shadows but they weren’t ready yet, and the actual shipping v10 shadow shaders ended up quite a bit different.

Anyway, speculate all you wish – the presence of unused code in the shader directory doesn’t represent a future feature spec or any kind of promise to ship a particular feature.

Ok thanks

My curiosity about this came because I looked at some shaders at the dev directory (I am one of those who like snooping around lol)
there is a shader called “experimental” which looks really related to PBR , things like materials , reflections , diffuse bla bla 🙂

Oh – that’s normal. The build’s “R” is hidden on the inside and candidate isn’t written down. That way if we keep the RC it doesn’t need to be re-labeled.

it would be nice to have a new look to x-plane UI in a future major release version, just so x-plane doesn’t look “old” at first sight.

By the way, I realize that X-Plane.org is *not* the release notes. The release notes are still at RC1, in all fairness. Not sure why “the media” would jump the gun on you, though.

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=89144#entry950438

This does not indicate any “RC” version, only that 10.40 has been released. This of course, is something one would expect only after the RC’s had been fully vetted.

Hopefully it will be “a few more days” and not a few more weeks – I’m looking over my list to see if I can cut rc2 today.

I’ll try to get to it at some point soon.

No. We’ll make a new patch (10.41? 10.45?) to take the next batch. It could be pretty soon after 1040 since the ‘major patch’ had a very long beta.