All posts by: Frank Kane

As always, Sundog Software’s founder, Frank Kane (that’s me!), will be roaming the halls of Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center at the annual I/ITSEC conference. Every year, the military training and simulation community converges in our town for its biggest...
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It’s been awhile since we’ve posted here, but that doesn’t mean we’re not busy! We did lose a couple of weeks from the impact of Hurricane Irma on our office here in Orlando, but we’re back in business now. Let’s...
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SkyMaxx Pro, an add-on for the X-Plane flight simulator, now features 3D towering cumulus and cumulonimbus storm clouds! SkyMaxx Pro 4.6 is a free update for any SkyMaxx Pro 4 customer. SkyMaxx Pro 4.6 is built using the new SilverLining...
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ORLANDO, Fla. (August 14, 2017) — Sundog Software today released version 5 of its SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud, and Weather SDK for simulation and game developers. SilverLining 5 offers a new representation of storm clouds, providing more immersive flight training...
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We just released Triton 3.81, and it contains “experimental” support for the features we plan to release officially in Triton 4.0. If you want to live on the edge – download it and give the following things a try: OpenGL...
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It’s about time to upgrade SilverLining to a new major version – 5.0. Since the release of SilverLining 4, we’ve added lots of new features such as new stratocumulus clouds, DirectX 11.1 support, and countless little performance improvements. The feature...
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Sundog Education, a division of Sundog Software, launched its latest online course, “Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack – In Depth and Hands On!” Elasticsearch is a very hot technology right now, and you can share this link to enroll for...
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Branislav Milic is working on producing a film created within the X-Plane simulator called “Between the Clouds.” Using our SkyMaxx Pro add-on for X-Plane, which uses our SilverLining SDK under the hood, he’s created some amazing scenes that border on...
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The word of the day on Dictionary.com is Sundog! A Sundog is in fact: 1. a bright circular spot on a solar halo; parhelion. Above is a great image of one (credit: iStock.com / karinegenest)! This is in fact the...
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Our latest update to our add-on for the X-Plane flight simulator, SkyMaxx Pro 4.5, is now available! This is a free update for existing SkyMaxx Pro 4 customers. This new release contains a lot of graphical polish, performance tweaks, and...
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