> Keeping that in mind, I just started working on the following idea: > > Step #1 >... >> Step #2 So - I am just about to commit what I have done so far. It is a fairly big change to the environment controller, so I'd like to announce what's going to happen.
The main part is a new subsystem within the subsystem-group "environment" which handles METAR data. It is responsible for fetching real-world data, parsing the METAR string, presenting the data as properties in the property tree and smoothly applying the metar data to the environment. A big part of it lived in the FGClouds class before under the name "scenario" The fetching of real-world METAR can be switched on and off at runtime by setting the well known property /environment/params/real-world-weather-fetch or at system startup by using --enable-real-weather-fetch. A new property /environment/metar/data now exists. An arbitrary METAR string can be written to this property at runtime. This METAR will be parsed at the weather within will smoothly be applied to the current environment. For convenience, a new startup parameter --metar is introduced to set the property. METAR data sets the cloud layers, pressure, temperature, visibility and the winds for the boundary and the aloft layer. This can be switched off completely, so one may configure a static weather using the weather and clouds dialog or providing the required properties. The METAR interpreter is disabled by setting the property /environment/params/metar-updates-environment. The setup of winds aloft can be switched off individually by setting the property /environment/params/metar-updates-winds-aloft to make use of other services providing this data. The weather_scenario dialog is changed and supports now the following actions: * Enable/Disable real-weather-fetch * Select on of many predefined weather scenarios * Enter a user defined METAR string Most of this is nothing really new. The code has been there and I just did some reorganization to make the new features available. Anyhow, the environment_ctrl.?xx have change a lot and so does fgclouds.?xx. I'm planning to commit all this before the weekend, so there is some time to fix whatever went wrong. Stay tuned Torsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
