On Fri 15 June 2007 10:39, Vivian Meazza wrote: > I wrote > > > Sent: 13 June 2007 16:54 > > To: 'FlightGear developers discussions' > > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] OSG - Improved Weather Radar > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Tim Moore has been hard at work recently (with the smallest > > of inputs by me), and has ported the improved weather radar > > already available for plib to OSG. > > > > The patches are here: > > > > ftp://abbeytheatre2.org.uk/fgfs/instrumentation/osg/ > > > > And a reminder of the improvements available: raw radar > > contacts etc, and most important, no longer requires some > > convoluted .XML here: > > > > ftp://abbeytheatre2.org.uk/fgfs/Screen-shots/radar.jpg > > ftp://abbeytheatre2.org.uk/fgfs/Screen-shots/radar1.jpg > > ftp://abbeytheatre2.org.uk/fgfs/Screen-shots/radar2.jpg > > > > Vivian > > We now have the improved weather radar code available for plib and osg, > originally written by Harald Johnsen, extensively modified by me, and > ported to OSG by Tim Moore. Csaba Halász is busy extending this into a very > clever Airport Surveillance Radar for use in Control Towers. Unless there > are substantive objections, I intend to get this code into cvs-HEAD and > cvs-PLIB over the coming weekend, so that we can more easily move on to > some future enhancements. > > Probably the only user of the full range of features of this radar is the > KC-135. We intend to develop this instrument into a more generalised > facility so that it could be used for example in the E3B. Tim Moore has > some embryo plans for adding ground echoes. We have yet to port 3D clouds > to osg, so there is no weather to display on the osg version of wxradar. > > In the longer term we would like to retire the clumsy .XML implementation > of a radar. > > Vivian >
Great Vivian, Timoore, Many thanks that is the best new, i ever heard along these pasted 30 days Gérard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
