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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@Micro_440th For those who use iPad Mini or regular iPad as your kneeboard like me, you can drag and drop in split screen from your shared drive to the Interactive map. Here is a screenshot running split screen after dropping the file into the map. I will work on a scroll lock for iPad so you can also measure on the iPad (to be done).
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RE: Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice
I wrote something similar that works on most browsers on desktop and mobile devices with voice so you could train by listening to the bullseye call and see if you got the right location. Depending on the platform and your browser you might get a male or female voice. as the default. It helped me to just listen and form the picture in my head. You can set your own bullseye and click the request picture call.
Try: https://sites.google.com/view/tech69/home/bullseye-training
Hope this is helpful for others too.
If you want to write your own your own tool you can look at the html and javascript here:
https://github.com/ohommes/bullseyeCheers!
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@Icer on MacOS:
Brave (full functionality and red circle)
Safari (full functionality and red circle)
Chrome (full functionality and red circle)
Firefox (full functionality and red circle).So only on Windows is there and event order issue in the Chromium code. I will try to figure out why and what can be done.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@Micro_440th I made the fix for the Windows Edge, Chrome and all other browsers available for you. to deploy. Tested the following
Windows ( fully working)
Edge, Chrome, Firefox ,BraveMacOS (fully working)
Safari, Chrome, Firefox, BraveiPad / iPhone (disabled measurement)
SafariNext new features to work on.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@jc1 This is a misunderstanding of the Doppler chart. It only shows rain like a real doppler radar so that shows only in Inclement weather in BMS. BMS Type 1,2,3,4 as blue-sunny, green-fair, yellow-poor, and red-inclement is just a simulation type; It is a weather type and has no equivalent in the real world.
I kinda show it in the temperature chart (The weather channel look) with the icons, 1= Sunny Icon, 2= Partly CLoudy and 3 = Cloudy and 4 is Cloud with Rain icon. So you have the data but I try to give you only real weather charts.
The Doppler chart is a real rain sensor simulation for picking up Rain radar returns and does a simulated radar sweep (Hence the circular scan visual). If you pull down real GFS data and you see actual Rain Icon in the Temperature chart then check on the Doppler and you see where actual rain is detected.
If many people want to see the BMS type info I can add the charts.
If people want the BMS type color chart, Temp color chart and Pressure color charts I can add those.
Just upvote here and I will add if enough people vote for it.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@suhkoi69
I actually find the Weather Channel Look the quickest and best overlay with the mission data present and not obscure things.
Having said that I will make the chart you select sticky so on reloads it will go to what you prefer.I will add the BMS color type charts, temperature color chart and pressure color chart. The nice wind flow from meteoblue is nice but animation will require continuous screen updates that might be ok on desktops but mobile devices like several years old might not be so good.
Anyway I hope the additional future static charts listed above will help you because the meteoblue I will not have on my early radar and requires a bit more effort. I am more inclined to first provide animations of time sequences of the current weather charts.
when you mention the meteoblue API I assume you want their current weather as overlay? What they provide I think is just access to their charts and maybe I can select what on the globe. For now I studied the GFS and made that available for download and usable when you save it as fmap in your missions.
Also I just checked the API limit of meteoblue and their maximum size is 1000x1000 that is far smaller than what we need as an overlay.
I mean they support 1000000 pixels and the Interactive Maps as 14745600 pixels so nearly 14 of their widgets at their max size.
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RE: BMS on Mac Studio through Crossover
@Stevie
Here is a quick snap from a MacBook Pro 2019 Intel showing FPS 115
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@suhkoi69 To me it is important that we use charts you get as a pilot in real life. The Weather commander view is a weather designer view and not a chart you see anywhere in the world. Once the wind barbs have the cloud coverage you can build the weather picture.
See: https://blog.weathertap.com/article/how-to-read-wind-barbs
Frankly when I look at the Weather Commander picture it makes it feel based on meteo color standards that the weather is worse than it actually is. The picture the weather commander paints feels like it sure is not a good day to fly but it is! In the example you show there is only really bad weather south and far north. The cloud coverage (I agree) is needed so you know what weapons to bring to the fight.
I can add a BMS designer view but that to me just feels fake and unreal as a pilot. BMS “as real as it gets”. Lets stick to that
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@jayb Possible yes but you will exceed the HW support on many devices especially Tablets and macOS desktop on certain browsers. For example even though all the maps are 4096x4096 they are scaled at runtime to 3840 to fit in the Image Scale and Rotate HW accelerators. You won’t be able to drag as you see now or measure smoothly if you go beyond the3840 resolution. It will be one sluggish monster app. So I am not planning zoom in more than we have unless many people have much much newer HW . Also I leave the viewport management to the browser which makes stuff really fast. The 3840x3840 is linked to HW video buffers for HD replay but once you exceed that the feel of the UI is total trash on some platforms and browsers.
For the Terrain: I am planning in the future to have terrain height available and create 2D charts with alt, speed and terrain over the planned route. But this is further into the future.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@suhkoi69 I did the research to build simulated satellite images based on:
Cloud optical Thickness and light Radiance charts and cloud optical thickness to cloud type and cloud base to determine the cloud thickness from base and Cb size in BMS. From this I can model the cloud coverage in the 59x59 cells of weather and create simulated cloud reflections to a satellite imager based on the BMS data to make it look like a real satellite image showing coverage and reflection based on liquid or ice types and maybe add some cloud shadows for Cb clouds.So it is still planned but had my focus was on the Military Symbology to create better SA for the missions.
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F4TS and Windows 11
<p>I am planning to upgrade to Windows 11 but fear my pit will have issues with regards to specific drivers and devices.<br /><br />I know BMS 4.35.3 works fine on Windows 11 but what about the following:<br />1) F4TS (Falcon4 to Serial)<br />2) TrackIR<br />3) DEDCapture ( Really the FTDI 2.X drivers)<br />4) vJoy and Joystick Gremlin<br /><br />Does anyone have any experience with these on Windows 11?</p>
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RE: Falcon BMS 4.36 on Linux / WINE (unsupported)
All,
CrossOver 22 just came out and I had given up on running BMS 4.36 on Mac after 4.35 was always working I could not get 4.36 to work with CrossOver 21Now with CrossOver 22 which was just released based on Wine7.7 all is working again and I have again a travel setup to play with when I am on the road on my MacBook running macOS Monterey.
I am sure the Linux version of this CrossOver version will work fine too!
So Happy again!
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RE: BMS on Mac Studio through Crossover
@MaxWaldorf
On my Intel Mac with CrossOver I have a Windows 10 Bottle and DXVK Backend for D3D11 enabled and get 100+ FPS on a MacBook Pro from 2019 -
RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@ohommes Drag and drop also works on iPhone using multi touch: Go to your shared folder and press and hold (using index finger). If it shows a popup menu just continue to hold and don’t release. Now with your thumb swipe up and click on Safari where you already have the interactive map loaded. Now just drop the file there. See screenshot after the drop.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@Abe if you see the Bullseye icon is selected (black background) you are in Bullseye mode which means you will move it if you click the map. If you don’t have the black selection showing it means you have an old version or bullseye is in disable mode. Also if the bullseye icon is selected and you press it again it will disable rendering the bullseye to declutter. And it will show a non-selection for the toolbar icon.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@Micro_440th I wiped my history and it seems to work again. Not sure why my browser would self revert to an old cache. So maybe false alarm.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@jc1 What you see is correct; The weather map just shows the types and when you draw your own stuff and just draw some weather without matching pressure and winds and temps you get pretty much what you draw. The fake weather stands out like a sorethumb. Also I posted earlier how the Doppler works and so if you just draw the weather types and you have no good idea how pressure systems work and winds then you get exactly what you see now. Remember doppler only sees rain fall of a minimum in tensity and so only inclement areas of your Weather Commander are resulting in possible doppler returns. Did you read my previous post on how the doppler works? So from what I see what you have drawn in weather commander is just to simple. Real weather doesn’t look like that but if you draw it like that and not put in correct pressure systems than the doppler looks too simple like you have. Download real weather with F4Wx and you will get real stuff. So from what I see you have drawn in Weather commander the doppler is correct. I can send you a few real KTO weather fmaps from July 23rd this year.: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TPTc5yVK9ruPYkJV74ofVPvI-GfsdCuf/view?usp=sharing
This is real data and real pressure systems. So remember this is a doppler simulator which looks at the inclement weather and scores the pressure systems and winds and frontal zones and adds random radar noise but when you draw simple weather types you will also get simple unrealistic doppler radar. Hope this helps and please read the other post I wrote today about the doppler RADAR.
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RE: Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
@jc1 Ok I found the bug for the offset. It is the smoothing filter. When I turn that off it is in the correct place. I will have to fix that.