F4Wx – Real Weather Converter
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No, at my own knowledge (for the few this may count, of course).
But better giving him some time to answer, as in the past, I guess. Also real life needs exige some priority, more than sometimes.
My own one cent, of course.
With best regards.
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Hi Ahmed,
could you please check this issue report https://bmsbugs.blu3wolf.com/view.php?id=206
I noticed something strange with the F4Wx fmap reading in BMS
thx
Hi,
If I understand correctly, the bug is that the fmap loads correctly into the mission and you get the correct visibility, but if you leave and reload the mission the visibility will be incorrect. If this is the case, it looks to be more of a BMS issue when saving/reloading that weather than a F4Wx specific issue (although may be something that happens only with F4Wx generated fmaps and not with other tool’s). If any BMS dev can shed some light about this I’d appreciate.
Regards
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It is just me having trouble downloading F4Wx fmaps or someone else is experiencing the same?
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@zamcesarc works well here
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@ahmed said in F4Wx – Real Weather Converter:
@zamcesarc works well here
Same…make sure you aren’t always trying to download the most recent upload…sometimes they aren’t complete yet and will cause failures. Pick a random one from a day or two previous.
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@jstnj Thanks…and yes I do that; however, I am still getting ‘Error decoding weather data:decode error:0x00000000D’ when downloading weather and same message is shown on all theaters. I reinstalled F4Wx app but no change. Could this be temporary ?
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@zamcesarc I just used it without any issues. Are you using F4Wx-1.05 ?
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@nil Yes 1.05 version!.. BMS is not recognizing previous fmaps (for Mid East128 theater) just after I installed U3 so I decided to download latest weather updates but that is not working …before U3 all worked ok. Frankly I am not sure if that’s related or not
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Problem solved!..apparently F4Wx was unable to download default number of forecast files. I had to limit those to lesser number. That never had happened since I started to use F4Wx.
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@zamcesarc Same issue here. What is the number that is getting it to work. I’ve tried several (3h … 4h… 5h… ) and no joyEdit: Seems to be working now.
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Hello, i’m struggling with the following 3 type of time used in the software
- initial time
- UTC time
- BMS time
i live in Italy, so let’s do an example:
I start a mission of my campaign, at the 18:00 LOCAL time in italy, the mission in bms in the briefing menu starts let say at 10:00.
how i have to set the 3 times above, in order to play with the REAL weather in korea at the 10:00?
i would like to fly with the real weather at the bms time in the mission briefing
so if i have to fly a mission start at 10:00, i would like to have the real weather in korea at 10:00i hope is clear, ty in advance
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@fiffinolmo Most importantly, we are talking only in UTC times (ZULU or simply “Z” time in the military) with BMS 4.35 and F4WX. The following procedure should work in F4WX:
- Download the weather for the desired theater.
- Select “Save Sequence”.
- Set the “Initial Time” to the desired time (for example right after the campaign starting time such as Day 1, 0501Z). Note that you may change the “Day” number to make new weather maps for your ongoing campaign.
- Disable the “Sync With Real Timezone” setting.
- Enable the “Start From Current Position” setting.
- Slide the large weather map slider to match the “Current Time” with the “Initial Time” as closely as possible. For example, if your campaign starts on Day 1 at 0500Z in BMS, adjust the slider to the first available 0500Z (= “Current Time”) time. You must look at the “Current Time” under the large weather map to match the time in BMS (= “BMS Time” under the map, which comes from the “Initial Time” on step 3).
- Save the weather maps. I’d recommend enabling the “Save Preview Images” setting too; mark all settings under the large map (Clouds, Temperature, Pressure, Wind).
Basically, the above procedure tries to match all the three times you mentioned.
Lastly, the “Sync With Real Timezone” setting of F4WX is not needed anymore as the game uses UTC times only.
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@johku Ty so much
so big change is that Sync With Real Timezone, can be also disabled now
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there is something wrong : impossible to download any GFS
here the error message
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@suhkoi69 Try to download the next line and see if that helps. I works for me when I get that message. If a no go, you just have to wait until NOAA have updated their files
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@nil already tested but without success
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first, I noticed it is little long to get this windows
and after choosing any GFS, I get the error message and it is the same for all theaters.
I try to load grib files in the the weather source option and nothing is loaded
has anyone tried to load a grib file in F4WX?
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@suhkoi69
I’ve experienced that error in the past, but this version 1.05 seems to works perfectly. I use it regulary without problems. Try to unistall and re-install F4wx. The downloading waiting time could be shorten setting the downloading Forecast and interval with different values. I suggest to read BMS Technical Manual in your FalconBMS4.35 Docs directory (Chapter 7.4 F4Weather (F4Wx), pag 7-45. -
I just try it again and now it seems work fine