MSFS 2020 April 22, 2021 Developer Update

This week in Microsoft Flight Simulator we hosted our very first SDK Q&A:

We are gearing up for the release of the Just 103 Solo plane nextweek and can't wait to get you in the seat of this ultralightaircraft.

A quick thank you to the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences forchoosing Microsoft Flight Simulator as the Strategy/Simulation Game ofthe Year in the D.I.C.E. Awards! We are extremely humbled and thankfulto be chosen. Check out the thank you speech from Jorg Neumann andDavid Dedeinehere.

SDK Update

Documentation:

• We fixed the installation of the 3DS Max tools.

Dev Mode:

• In the Project Editor, we renamed the package inspector "+" button into "Add asset group".
• In the Marketplace Data Editor, we fixed a crash when loading an empty thumbnail.
• We continue to polish the Visual Effect Editor and added a VisualEffectLib Wizard among other improvements.
• We fixed an issue where the simvar index was lost when loading a file.
• We updated the new "Release Notes" window.
• In the Scenery Editor, we fixed the issue where the "`" character was filtered in taxiway sign content text entry.

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