I wrote > Sent: 13 June 2007 16:54 > To: 'FlightGear developers discussions' > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] OSG - Improved Weather Radar > > > Hi, > > Tim Moore has been hard at work recently (with the smallest > of inputs by me), and has ported the improved weather radar > already available for plib to OSG. > > The patches are here: > > ftp://abbeytheatre2.org.uk/fgfs/instrumentation/osg/ > > And a reminder of the improvements available: raw radar > contacts etc, and most important, no longer requires some > convoluted .XML here: > > ftp://abbeytheatre2.org.uk/fgfs/Screen-shots/radar.jpg > ftp://abbeytheatre2.org.uk/fgfs/Screen-shots/radar1.jpg > ftp://abbeytheatre2.org.uk/fgfs/Screen-shots/radar2.jpg > > Vivian >
We now have the improved weather radar code available for plib and osg, originally written by Harald Johnsen, extensively modified by me, and ported to OSG by Tim Moore. Csaba Halász is busy extending this into a very clever Airport Surveillance Radar for use in Control Towers. Unless there are substantive objections, I intend to get this code into cvs-HEAD and cvs-PLIB over the coming weekend, so that we can more easily move on to some future enhancements. Probably the only user of the full range of features of this radar is the KC-135. We intend to develop this instrument into a more generalised facility so that it could be used for example in the E3B. Tim Moore has some embryo plans for adding ground echoes. We have yet to port 3D clouds to osg, so there is no weather to display on the osg version of wxradar. In the longer term we would like to retire the clumsy .XML implementation of a radar. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
