[Release] WeatherGen - A BMS random weather generator
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Seems to work in Seamonkey browser also - which is “Firefox-like”. At least, the page renders.
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Seems to work in Seamonkey browser also - which is “Firefox-like”. At least, the page renders.
Yeah, it’ll work in the sense of showing weather in lots of browsers. The problems you might run into are:
- Slow computation. Safari in particular seems to have a very slow Javascript engine, and WeatherGen does a lot of number-crunching.
- Save/load features won’t work. I’m doing something a little funky here, the technical details of which I will avoid going into, which is actually the main reason IE doesn’t work at present.
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This is pretty cool. I’ll most certainly play around with it. You mentioned no bulk conversions, which is a slight letdown. but It’s most certainly not a deal breaker for me. Just means I get to exercise my trigger finger a bit!
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i can’t get a drop down save menu. i am using firefox. any ideas
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This is pretty cool. I’ll most certainly play around with it. You mentioned no bulk conversions, which is a slight letdown. but It’s most certainly not a deal breaker for me. Just means I get to exercise my trigger finger a bit!
Yeah, I tried to pull this off, but making it a browser app imposes a lot of limitations. I could ship a separate tool for bulk generation: save your settings, run the tool with the settings file as input, and spit out all the files you want. I’d prefer to have it in the browser, though, for obvious reasons. I have a few other ideas as well - it’s definitely a feature I’d like to see implemented.
I will say, I was sort of surprised by how not-annoying I found individual downloads to be. Your mileage may vary, of course, but even with click-per-file, because the time advances automatically, I thought it was good enough to ship an initial version with.
Thanks for the feedback!
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i can’t get a drop down save menu. i am using firefox. any ideas
If you’re trying to save an FMAP via the File menu in the title bar of the page, that’s not the correct way. The video I posted illustrates the correct way if you want to see it show in greater detail, but briefly you’re looking for a button on the page (you might have to scroll down) that says, “Save Current As Single FMAP”.
Hope that helps.
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Yeah, it’ll work in the sense of showing weather in lots of browsers. The problems you might run into are:
- Slow computation. Safari in particular seems to have a very slow Javascript engine, and WeatherGen does a lot of number-crunching.
- Save/load features won’t work. I’m doing something a little funky here, the technical details of which I will avoid going into, which is actually the main reason IE doesn’t work at present.
Technical enough, thanks! I primarily use a combination of Seamonkey and Chrome, so you have me covered. I find Seamonkey works better than Chrome for doing things like forum posting/text interaction than Chrome does…so I keep both handy. Really nice addition for BMS you’ve got going.
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I have pushed the button on the page that says save current but i don’t get a drop down menu to save to, the time does advance 1 hr each time the save button is pressed
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I have pushed the button on the page that says save current but i don’t get a drop down menu to save to, the time does advance 1 hr each time the save button is pressed
OK, yep, I’m seeing the same thing in Firefox now. Sorry about that! Looking into it now. It appears to be working in Chrome if that’s a workaround for you.
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Awesome work Tyrant! This will make it so much easier to create challenging weather for all our flights. You’re going to regret publishing this.
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A good application of this tool is to create weather maps for sequential missions. It also can be used to create zones of calm for use with refueling tankers and carriers which benefit from controlled winds.
Good job Ty.
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I have pushed the button on the page that says save current but i don’t get a drop down menu to save to, the time does advance 1 hr each time the save button is pressed
This is fixed now. Just refresh the page to pick up the new version. Thanks for reporting it! Please let me know if you have any more trouble.
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Great tool. Thanks Tyrant!
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Could you share which ‘language’ or development tool(s) you use to create this browser app?
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Sure. The language is Clojurescript, and the UI library is something called Hoplon. The code is all available at https://github.com/candera/weathergen.
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Been Playing around with this a bit more. Really do love all the variations this can create. So. I decided to pump up the Incliment, mess with some temps… And This storm rolled in.
Preeety Sure Weather Gen just created a Tornado… :eek:
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Been Playing around with this a bit more. Really do love all the variations this can create. So. I decided to pump up the Incliment, mess with some temps… And This storm rolled in.
Preeety Sure Weather Gen just created a Tornado… :eek:
Haha. Yes, that’s the “random” in “random weather”.
The fun part is how Falcon will suddenly jump from one weather pattern to the next when the scheduled time hits, so depending on how you have it set, you could find that little swirl sort of teleporting itself over the runway while you’re on final. I’m still in the fairly early stages of using this myself, and I’ve started to tend towards higher zoom values and lower step intervals, to make for smoother changes when Falcon changes the interval. Still, if there are going to be cells with the wind spiraling around them, it means when one goes overhead you’re going to get wind direction reversals.
Glad you’re enjoying using it. I’m enjoying making it.
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What a good job !
Easy to use, very good tutorial and very useful.
I’ll try it asap and give you my feedback. I feel it good !
Thanks for all what you do, Tyrant.
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thanx m8 added it to my hotlist.
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New release (v014).
- Added ability to select a location by name. Currently only airstrips and airbases are included.