World Wind New Features

1.3.6 and 1.4 New Features

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New Extraterrestrial Datasets
Exciting new planets.
 * Mars: In addition to the Moon which debuted in 1.3.3, we now have Mars with full 3D terrain.
 * SDSS: View the galaxy with outer-space imagery from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
 * Venus: 3 image layers without 3D terrain + placenames
 * Jupiter: Jupiter and 4 Moons + placenames

Updated Earth Datasets
Better, sharper imagery.
 * OnEarth 15m Landsat imagery
 * Improved elevation data based on SRTM+ and SRTM. Includes global Bathymetry.
 * ZoomIt! data: Additional datasets for parts of the US (MA, NY, IN, FL) and South Africa's Robben Island

New Included Plugins
In this release, we're including some of the best community-contributed plugins and some others newly created by NASA:

Some of these plug-ins are not turned on by default, to activate them open the Plug-Ins menu and click Load/Unload... (see figure 1).  Click on name of the plug-in you wish to activate in the Plugin Load/Unload window and then press the Load button, the indicator next to the plug-ins name should turn green (if you want the plug-in to automatically load each time World Wind starts also tick the plug-ins startup box), you can now safely close the Plugin Load/Unload window.


 * Movie Recorder: Movie recording script. Plays back a script file with camera positions and records each frame to sequentially numbered bitmap files on disk.
 * Measuring tool: Measure distances/bearings on the globe.
 * Starfield: Adds a dynamicaly rendered starfield background to World Wind using data from the Hipparcos catalog.
 * Compass Rose: Renders a compass in World Wind.
 * Clock: On-screen clock.
 * Earthquake Plug-In: Near-Real-Time Earthquake display and Historical Earthquake Query.
 * KML Importer: Import Placemarks from KML and KMZ files.
 * Zoom Extender: Double-click to control zooming in and out.
 * Global Clouds (near realtime clouds): Displays a global cloud image.
 * Atmospheric halo: Displays a virtual atmosphere around the Earth.
 * Overview Form: Displays an external window to control World Wind (only works for Earth).
 * External Layer Manager: Displays a classic windows style form window to turn on and off layers.

New Features
New core features which improve World Wind.


 * Improved download indicator: Tiles which are downloading have a semi-transparent red border.
 * Improved terrain rendering: Rendering of terrain has been optimised to increase framerates.