Re: [Flightgear-devel] Real weather

2006-08-08 Thread metaf2xml
On 28/02/06, David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28/02/06, Justin Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Also does the weather info include snow and ice ? > > As far as I know, the only live weather information used is the METAR. > The source will be updated every hour or so, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] real weather

2006-03-01 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Justin Smithies wrote: Am i wrong in thinking that the described properties below could be used to instruct FG to draw using tiles from /data/textures/Terrain.winter instead of Terrain ? Anybody ? That's not the way the code is currently setup, but it seems like it's in the realm of po

Re: [Flightgear-devel] real weather

2006-03-01 Thread Justin Smithies
Am i wrong in thinking that the described properties below could be used to instruct FG to draw using tiles from /data/textures/Terrain.winter instead of Terrain ? Anybody ? Justin Smithies On Wednesday 01 March 2006 17:04, Justin Smithies wrote: > Hi all, > I'm using the real weath

[Flightgear-devel] real weather

2006-03-01 Thread Justin Smithies
Hi all, I'm using the real weather option and when i look at the FG tree /enviroment/metar i see the property snow-cover which is true and snow-norm which is 0.67 Is this not the value that could be used to tell FG to draw scenery tiles of a wintery nature like in the scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Real weather

2006-02-28 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Justin Smithies wrote: I have a couple of questions concerning the real weather option. Does it only load the weather on startup or does it do a fresh D/L every 5 - 10 mins etc. The reason i ask is that the weather changes here at EGPD but in FG i have to reset it to get a new update. If it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Real weather

2006-02-28 Thread David Megginson
On 28/02/06, Justin Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also does the weather info include snow and ice ? As far as I know, the only live weather information used is the METAR. The source will be updated every hour or so, and FlightGear might lag a little behind that. The METAR gives the curr

[Flightgear-devel] Real weather

2006-02-28 Thread Justin Smithies
I have a couple of questions concerning the real weather option. Does it only load the weather on startup or does it do a fresh D/L every 5 - 10 mins etc. The reason i ask is that the weather changes here at EGPD but in FG i have to reset it to get a new update. If it doesnt do a periodic update