Laminar Research recently took to their Facebook page to announce the release of version 12.1.2, also known as the Caribbean update. The update is mostly art-based but also brings some functionality fixes and additions.
12.1.2 Art-Based Package
In this latest release, Laminar Research has made several improvements to X-Plane 12 to represent the Caribbean region better. They have updated the global water textures to make the water look more realistic, made custom enhancements to the airports TNCS, TFFJ, and TNCM, and added new objects to the scenery gateway. Additionally, custom dynamic civilian vessels have been added and will replace the old military ships in most cases.
In the previews, we can see new custom textures and models for different ground vehicles, including an electric passenger bus and a new ground power unit. Moreover, we can see a shark in the water near a small fishing boat, and the water colours change with different depths. The wave effects produced by ships have also been updated.
The selection of ships includes a wide range of vessel types, from large container ships displaying real company names on their containers to small sailing boats, and large oil tankers. Each ship model is unique, featuring various liveries, high-quality textures, real names and logos, and even some funny jokes incorporated into their designs.
Functionality Improvements
With update 12.1.2, X-Plane natively supports dual jetways. Scenery developers are required to update their sceneries in the World Editor (WED) in order to make use of this. Laminar Research also fixed a bunch of smaller bugs, you can see the full changelog below.
Closing Note
Laminar Research mentioned that they will continue to publish smaller updates till 12.2.0 which will address many aspects of the simulator. FSNews will keep you updated on further updates. If you’re interested in learning more about the last major X-Plane update, take a look at this article.
Full Changelog
- XPD-15178 Support 2 jetways per gate
- XPD-15181 Increase resolution for object string .str spacing
- XPD-15582 Airport scenery library update
- XPD-15654 Global Airports cut June 2024
- XPD-15660 Global water PNGs update
- XPD-15714 Vegas Eiffel Tower update and fix
- XPD-15723 Ships update
- XPD-15754 Custom Airport for TFFJ – St Barthelemy
- XPD-15755 Custom Airport for TNCS – Juancho E Yrausquin
- XPD-15581 TNCM Princess Juliana
- XPD-15765 New library items
- XPD-15791 New commands to rotate the cockpit view by 45 degrees to left/right
- XPD-15795 Ships Container Loads Update
- XPD-15796 Ships Update
- XPD-15812 Number of boats should depend on World Objects Density setting
- XPD-15853 WebServer – Make binding of port 8086 optional
- XPD-15099 Parked aircraft should be placed TITLED
- XPD-15247 Default water coloring effectively gone
- XPD-15340 plot_init_lights_v11 crashes the sim
- XPD-15615 Assign new map icons for “smaller” boat types
- XPD-15650 Dev assert when loading aircraft carrier deck start
- XPD-15673 Missile-induced F-4 explosion not visible in replay mode
- XPD-15677 Unable to move replay slider and hitting a dev assert
- XPD-15679 Aircraft carrier bow waves flickering with frame drops in replay viewer rewind
- XPD-15699 Dev assert when switching machine role to external visual
- XPD-15722 Aircraft slide around on the aircraft carrier and fall off of the XDECK start.
- XPD-15734 Bad prefs file results in some boat types being invisible
- XPD-15751 OBJ pixel density calculation is broken leading to too little rain on some windshields (eg. ToLiss A320)
- XPD-15778 Sounds pitch up and down with airspeed.
- XPD-15768 Water Rendering : Boat wake/wash/projected decals demonstrate considerable parallax
- XPD-15777 Stop auto-creating push-back trucks
- XPD-15788 Seaplane wake is missing
- XPD-15038 VirtualFly .joy files
- XPD-15625 Alia battery display only displays battery 0 despite having four batteries
- XPD-15759 Avionics touch callbacks report positions when outside the screen
- XPD-15797 Crash after redirecting AI at the last stages of approach before handoff to tower
- XPD-15804 Sea plane wake does not replay
- XPD-15810 3d waves are missing in the right eye when in VR
- XPD-15813 Remove trees before Runway 10 at TNCM
- XPD-15818 Hold short lines are reversed at TFFJ
- XPD-15840 Avionics API SDK glue doesn’t flag crashes as plugin-related
- XPD-15847 Dev assert toggling replay mode after moving aircraft via map for a while
- XPD-15242 Underwater visibility camera distance dependent
- XPD-15327 SF50 Start Behaviour
