Weather change in Campaign?
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Arty
For your information the weather is shared with clients in 4.32
If weather changes on the server , the clients are updated
I don’t know why you believe it doesnt
Didn’t say it wasn’t, I was asking for the 3-4 weeks version.
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Didn’t say it wasn’t, I was asking for the 3-4 weeks version.
only microsoft are creating updates that are worse than previous version
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Early testing showed that changing the server weather was mirrored on clients. I briefly tested this with the main weather types (sunny/fair/inclement/poor) and they were in-fact immediately changed on the clients end also. I have not yet tested if fog distances etc… are mirrored but the assumption is that it is
It’s already been coded into the application. It polls from a weather data feed with a resolution of 1h (24 slots per day history). It then reads the BMS campaign timer (campaign clock) and selects the appropriate hour slot from the history array. The weather is synced to the BMS campaign timer/day/hour to follow RL values. When the BMS timer changes hour it changes the weather lookup index.
It wouldn’t be hard to externalize a file where a user can define all values in any desired interval (eg. ini file). That being said, I’m creating an entire GUI for it with “profiles” so this functionality is/was planned to be completely operable within a GUI. No need to notepad it.
Thanks.
are you accustomed to GRIB files format ?
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are you accustomed to GRIB files format ?
Parsing a specific syntax isn’t a problem… I’ve looked at the format but I would have to know about it’s implementation before I can properly answer that question.
wow:
GRIB is overkill considering 4.32 weather implementation. That being said, I guess BMS will be implementing zone based weather instead of 1 global setting if GRIB is being considered. I don’t use GRIB for my specific app as I found a much simpler service which satisfies 4.32 requirements. If zone based weather is being implemented, then it would be worth the look.
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Well sure is overkill and in those links talks about even 21 zones.
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Has anybody managed to convert a GRIB to fmap for bms 4.33 yet? or better yet any realtime weather?
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yes. we did that while testing
Lots of work but doable. Just have to get your hands dirty and go for it.