[Release] WeatherGen - A BMS random weather generator
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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.
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Video tutorial made application a breeze! Endless possibilities with weather and this is just so easy and convenient to use.
Thanks Tyrant!
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Thank you Tyrant, great app.
Tiny request, ability setting pressure in mbar values.
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Beautiful tool
Thanks a lot !
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Thank you Tyrant, great app.
Tiny request, ability setting pressure in mbar values.
Noted. Thanks!
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Thank you so much for this wonderful program. It’s simply the best.
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Awesome work Tyrant. A great tool and easy to use.
I have one question though, I am concurrently playing the new Battle for Balkans SA theatre and I have generated fmaps for day 1. Where do I copy these files to? The default weather folder contains ones I made for Korea as per the tutorial, so will these be overwritten by ones for Balkans? Can you only have one set of fmaps in play at any one time, or do these new Balkan fmaps go under the “add-on theatre Balkans” folder somewhere?
Cheers!
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I have one question though, I am concurrently playing the new Battle for Balkans SA theatre and I have generated fmaps for day 1. Where do I copy these files to? The default weather folder contains ones I made for Korea as per the tutorial, so will these be overwritten by ones for Balkans? Can you only have one set of fmaps in play at any one time, or do these new Balkan fmaps go under the “add-on theatre Balkans” folder somewhere?
Each theater can have a WeatherMapsUpdates folder - the FMAP files go in there. So, for example, weather for the Balkans would go in Data\Add-On Balkans\campaign\WeatherMapsUpdates. It would be completely independent from the Korea weather, but you couldn’t have two Balkans weather systems in play at the same time. The folder doesn’t exist by default for Balkans and ITO, but you can just make one with the right name in the “campaign” folder.
Note that for KTO, it’s “Campaign/SAVE” but for other theaters it’s just “campaign”.
If you did need to quickly change weather systems in the same theater, you could create a folder called something else - say, WeatherMapsUpdates2 - and, before starting Falcon, move the existing one out of the way and rename the other one to WeatherMapsUpdates. In other words, swap the folders. Or you could copy the files in by hand or whatever. But again, it would be a manual step you’d have to remember to perform.
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Excellent Tyrant, thanks so much for your detailed reply.
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Excellent Tyrant, thanks so much for your detailed reply.
No problem - good luck and have fun!