Ideas for the sky/atmospherics engine
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:25 pm
Hiya!
I'm a long time flightsim fan and there's something in those which could be implemented into Maxwell which would enhance the atmospherics/sky engine in Maxwell further and gives the user the ability to create even more realistic images.
The idea is to use METAR weather data to set the current weather, cloud density, cloud density, pressure, winds and visibility. This data is updated around the clock every day and night around the whole world. It could grab the data from internet by itself or u could download a METAR datafile from the web and make Maxwell use the data from it when determining the current weather/atmospherics for the longitude and latitude you're on.
Here's a link with some more info about METAR data for those that wanna read, even more can be found with Google.
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/weather/
In my mind this seems to be possible to develop and i cannot see it being impossible, however it's not super important and not at all urgent
but perhaps in the future it would be a nice addon to the main core/atmospherics part of the engine giving the users yet another variable to make their renderings even more realistic and up to date.
/ Max
I'm a long time flightsim fan and there's something in those which could be implemented into Maxwell which would enhance the atmospherics/sky engine in Maxwell further and gives the user the ability to create even more realistic images.
The idea is to use METAR weather data to set the current weather, cloud density, cloud density, pressure, winds and visibility. This data is updated around the clock every day and night around the whole world. It could grab the data from internet by itself or u could download a METAR datafile from the web and make Maxwell use the data from it when determining the current weather/atmospherics for the longitude and latitude you're on.
Here's a link with some more info about METAR data for those that wanna read, even more can be found with Google.
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/weather/
In my mind this seems to be possible to develop and i cannot see it being impossible, however it's not super important and not at all urgent
but perhaps in the future it would be a nice addon to the main core/atmospherics part of the engine giving the users yet another variable to make their renderings even more realistic and up to date./ Max
"the infinite idea", i like that comment Jun in Gi 