Simon Fowler writes: > Are there any plans for adding support for the interesting bits of > weather to this model? (ie, storms, realistic winds that actually > relate to the rest of the weather model, etc)
We cannot do fully realistic winds, at least not with the amount of computing power available to us today. FGEnvironment does support gusting winds, not just in theory but in practice (i.e. they bounce the plane around and knock it off course) -- that's something we didn't have before. > There seemed to be support for them in the CM weather stuff, and it > seems a little redundant to be adding a new, less capable model when > there's one already there . . . WeatherCM currently has a bitbucket to hold the bounds of a thunderstorm and a random calculation for lightning probability, but that's only a tiny step -- most of the actual work of modelling thunderstorms (and other weather phenomena) needs to be done for either weather subsystem. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
