Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Dave Perry wrote: > > >> The 3D cloud appearance is much improved. Thanks to all involved! >> Several questions and comments. >> 1. At night, the emmissive seems very very bright. >> 2. Are you intending that the 3D cloud base should match the lowest >> level in the current METAR? I just flew with a KDSM METAR using "real >> weather fetch" >> (current METAR copied from ADDS:* KDSM 081954Z 10007KT 10SM BKN130 >> OVC160 01/M03 A2964 RMK AO2 SLP047 T00111033. * ) >> >> This gives a broken layer at 13000 ft AGL but the 3D clouds started at >> 2000 AGL. >> > > Was the weather scenario set to METAR as well - one of the bugs I fixed with > the > latest patch was that previously --enable-real-weather-fetch over-wrote the > various > scenarios. Now, you will only get METAR if you have METAR as the scenario, as > well as --enable-real-weather-fetch. > > -Stuart > > You were correct. I had not set the weather scenario to METAR. I ran fgfs once with 3D clouds and once w/o 3D clouds, both with real-weather-fetch and scenario METAR. I only got 1 fps with the 3D clouds. Earlier with 3D clouds, I got about 21 fps. Also for both 2D and 3D clouds, the field elevation is not accounted for in applying the cloud base MSL height. The METAR for these 2 runs showed broken at 011 (translates to 1,100 ft AGL) but leaving KDSM field elevation of 957 ft MSL, I was in the clouds by 1100 ft MSL or only about 150 ft AGL. Are we not applying the metar field elevation + metar AGL to get the cloud level?
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