F4Wx – Real Weather Converter
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Hey Ahmed, how difficult would it be to include an export of the image for each weather file when it is generating the weather files?
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Already done on internal build as part of the ‘weather briefing’ export, but i haven’t had time lately to finish and publish it. I’ll eventually manage to allocate some time. Stay tuned.
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Awesom, looking forward to it.
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Hi Ahmed and thanks for your work,
After a little pain I understood how it works and it is great.
We’ll probably use it to have a dinamic weather on our actual online campaign.AMVI is pleased to mirror the download of your work; here the link http://www.amvi.it/download266-f4wx–real-weather-converter.html.html
Thanks again
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Hi Ahmed,
Would it possible to change the base image of the theater with one selected by the user?
On our campaign we have added to the default theater map some painted areas, corredors, holding areas for tankers and patrol areas.
It would be nice to have the visual identification of the weather on those specified areas.
I know that the fmap files are based on a square larges areas and that we cand more or less identify our zones but……it would be an improvement.What do you think about it?
Kind regards and thanks again for your exellent work.
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It was indeed already possible in the latest internal build, among with some other small improvements, but I haven’t touched the code in months…
I can’t promise anything as I am quite busy the next couple of weeks, but I’ll try to take a look at the code to make sure I didn’t leave anything half-done and I’ll upload that version.
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Thanks a lot Ahmed.
Your work gave us a big improvement in reality useing real weather during our mix.
Nice to hear from you.
Kind regards
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F4Wx.exe error at launch
msvcp140.dll missing !
PS: yes, i have msvcp140.dll on my system already and a newer version of Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (x86):
Bump - fixed.
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Whenever I check “Sync With Real Timezone” I get the triangle exclamation mark:
“Warning! With the currently selected options real-time time cannot be matched.”Not sure what’s wrong
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Gza036, no idea about your problem, but I can see on your screenshot that you have choosen different configuration weather parameters.
Could you elaborate the choice you did (clouds and precipitations )?
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Just tweaking to get the ratios of Fair, Poor, and Inclement that I wanted
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Whenever I check “Sync With Real Timezone” I get the triangle exclamation mark:
“Warning! With the currently selected options real-time time cannot be matched.”Not sure what’s wrong
The same problem for me …
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Hi,
thanks for your work, do you think it is possible to add the Nordic Theater in your database, or know the custom values ?
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Hi,
thanks for your work, do you think it is possible to add the Nordic Theater in your database, or know the custom values ?
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?31181-NTO-Weather-Maps-Coordinates
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For the Nordic theater I used custom N63 to N71 and E11 to E34.
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71N cuts off the top of the land, it’s 72N
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Could someone elaborate a bit more how to load the weather generated files of a saved campaign .cam?
I mean, I have a bunch of fmaps in weather update folder. When the campaign starts I click weather update, I load the first fmap and everything is ok. Then I fly a mission and save the campaign. The next time I load this saved campaign, do I have to load again a specific fmap file or is it done automatically?
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whichever u want. first file in the GFS list is the latest IIRC. so it takes from that time and after it.
The weather model will have forecast for days to come.
The saved sequence files have the format of xyyzz.fmap
x=day 1to17 day one is the day you selected from GFS.
yy=hour
zz=minutesSo you want the weather for tomorrow at 20:00 and downloaded 7/12/2016 GFS file.
if you want one only and let falcon do the job of weather thus having only one starting point you just copy paste the file to save folder and load it.
If u want the sequence copy the first u want to save and all the rest to the weather folder inside save folder.
Now if u want the weather from day 3 and forward then place the time marker from F4Wx to the starting time point you want and select Save from Current position.
but this will have you to wait for day 3 as you fly to kick in.
So if u want days 3 weather in your flight you must rename those files from 3xxxx.fmap to 1xxxx.fmap also time is important if your flight is at 0800 and the weather starts at 1000 then you must fly for 2 hours. Not 100% sure here maybe falcon loads from the initial file and projects that weather until 1000 and then play along with the weather.This would be a nice feature ahmed. Like the point i have the time marker I want it to be same as initial time.
So example: at the marker I’m at day 4 7:00 and my initial time set to 01 09:00 select save from current position and a new tickmark save as day one. It will start saving from 10900.fmap and forward according to the forecast to generate time in minutes.I would like to know more about the sync with real timezone.
My time zone is GMT+1 the weather I downloaded is GMT+9
I fly at Korea theater. This means it has GMT+9? of Falcon GMT is irrelevant and only relevance is between my real local time and the downloaded real time?
So should I select sync in case at my time 20:00 (GMT+1) I want to fly the Korea weather at 20:00 (GMT+9) or not? And it syncs which clock Falcon clock or my computer - system clock?hmmm
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Hello guys, quick update as I see a lot of questions and requests with no news from me in a long time.
I’m basically quite disconnected from the simming community at the moment as basically the summer is the busiest working season for me and also of course I like to enjoy the awesome summer weather here in Spain the little free time I get!
I’m still planning on releasing that promised update to the latest internal beta I had that already included some of the features requested in the last few pages of the thread.
I see there are a few theaters around. In order to add those to that update I make a call to the theater developers to send me via pm the latitude/longitude boundaries of the theater plus a TerrainView exported image of the theater for compatibility with the already included ones.
As the last version was released in the winter and I was expecting to update it before the summer, the timezone sync does not take into account DST, so for those theaters affected, if you want to correct it manually, you can select the “custom” theater and adjust the pre-set non-DST timezone in there.
Regarding the warning icon on the timezone sync option, that icon only shows when there is not enough weather forecast downloaded to apply the settings you have selected. If you select to download more hours of weather it should clear up.
I hope you all keep enjoying F4Wx and I hope I can deliver that update soon enough
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I can’t seem to get the map files to come up in the wx screen. I’ve followed all the steps arty listed and saved the fmaps in my campaign wx folder but they do not show up in the sim. Any ideas?