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== Current development status == | == Current development status == | ||
The current version 0.7 supports placement of effect volumes for visibility, rain, snow, turbulence and thermal lift, as well as interpolation of visibility, pressure, temperature and dewpoint between weather stations. It has a variety of 40x40 km weather tiles with layered and non-layered clouds and weather effects, thunderstorms, external models of precipitation and (with a CVS patch) also support for gliders, i.e. it creates thermals below convective clouds. Automatic weather tile reloading for long-range flights is implemented, both in a simple 'repeat-tile' function and a set of tile selection rules to simulate the long-range change of real weather. Terrain presampling algorithms automatically adjust the cloud placement over elevated terrain | The current version 0.7 supports placement of effect volumes for visibility, rain, snow, turbulence and thermal lift, as well as interpolation of visibility, pressure, temperature and dewpoint between weather stations. It has a variety of 40x40 km weather tiles with layered and non-layered clouds and weather effects, thunderstorms, external models of precipitation and (with a CVS patch) also support for gliders, i.e. it creates thermals below convective clouds. Automatic weather tile reloading for long-range flights is implemented, both in a simple 'repeat-tile' function and a set of tile selection rules to simulate the long-range change of real weather. 3d clouds are rendered up to 45 km distance. Terrain presampling algorithms automatically adjust the cloud placement over elevated terrain. | ||
A feature gallery of version 0.85: | |||
[http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/files/local_weather_fgfs2.0.0_v0. | [[File:local_weather_0.85_01.jpg|150px|[ Cumulus and Cirrocumulus clouds (Local Weather v0.85)]] | ||
[[File:local_weather_0.85_02.jpg|150px|[ Cirrus and Cirrostratus clouds heralding a warmfront (Local Weather v0.85)]] | |||
[[File:local_weather_0.85_03.jpg|150px|[ 45 km cloud visibility range (Local Weather v0.85)]] | |||
[[File:local_weather_0.85_04.jpg|150px|[ Realistic cloud bottoms (Local Weather v0.85)]] | |||
[[File:local_weather_0.85_05.jpg|150px|[ Cumulus and Altocumulus clouds (Local Weather v0.85)]] | |||
[[File:local_weather_0.85_06.jpg|150px|[ Multiple 3d layered clouds (Local Weather v0.85)]] | |||
[http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/files/local_weather_fgfs2.0.0_v0.85.tgz Local Weather package v0.85(Thorsten)] | |||
[http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/files/README.local_weather.html Documentation] | [http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/files/README.local_weather.html Documentation] | ||