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=== Basic Weather === | === Basic Weather === | ||
{{note|You should consider the more realistic [[Soaring#Advanced_Weather|Advanced Weather]] engine instead}} | |||
[[File:Pinzgauer.jpg|thumb|270px|[[Schleicher ASK 21]] gliding in the [[Pinzgauer Spaziergang]] thermals scenario]] | [[File:Pinzgauer.jpg|thumb|270px|[[Schleicher ASK 21]] gliding in the [[Pinzgauer Spaziergang]] thermals scenario]] | ||
In Basic Weather, thermals and sinks can be used but must be defined individually in a thermal scenario file. To see how this is done it would be best to examine the file called <tt>[[$FG ROOT]]/AI/thermal_demo.xml</tt>, which sets up 11 thermals and 6 sinks around San Francisco Bay. To learn more about AI scenarios in general, see the related article called [[AI Systems]]. Note that the thermals and sinks exist independently of FlightGear's Basic Weather system, so it's possible to have cloud layers that don't match your thermal heights or thermals which do not move with the wind. To prevent this you may want to manually set the cloud layers to match your thermals and match AI-defined winds with the winds set in the weather. Also, cap clouds do not match the default clouds in shape. | In Basic Weather, thermals and sinks can be used but must be defined individually in a thermal scenario file. To see how this is done it would be best to examine the file called <tt>[[$FG ROOT]]/AI/thermal_demo.xml</tt>, which sets up 11 thermals and 6 sinks around San Francisco Bay. To learn more about AI scenarios in general, see the related article called [[AI Systems]]. Note that the thermals and sinks exist independently of FlightGear's Basic Weather system, so it's possible to have cloud layers that don't match your thermal heights or thermals which do not move with the wind. To prevent this you may want to manually set the cloud layers to match your thermals and match AI-defined winds with the winds set in the weather. Also, cap clouds do not match the default clouds in shape. | ||