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Will it also adjust mission date and season, therefore sunrise/sundown times?

 

No for design choice, cause there is another mod with a function that modify dates And hours.... that should be available in The Next weeks. It's a Save mission function.

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The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.

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No for design choice, cause there is another mod with a function that modify dates And hours.... that should be available in The Next weeks. It's a Save mission function.

 

Thx for update...i postponed playing dcs world after migrating to win10 insider preview version,just because there is no save mission function..And yes, if anyone is interested dcs works on win10

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PS: to be clear, the save mission function that I'm talking about won't "freeze" a mission, it will simply keep ground units positions, dead status and something else from one mission to another.

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The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.

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Very nice job! I was having a go at this as well but with an external exe. The idea was to get the weather data (from jeppesen in my case) and update the current running mission file every 15 mins or so and make the server reload and restart the mission but only when the server is empty. That way the weather data is 'often' pretty much up to date.

Reloading and restarting the mission is where i kinda got stuck, then i found this brilliant piece of scripting. Perhaps you could use the idea and make it update, reload and restart the mission file on an empty server.

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At The moment i'm Not planning any multiplayer specific update. I'm focusing more about how to make The weather different from point to point... But I Will start to think something only after dcsw2 is released.

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The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.

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It could be potentially possibile to insert a custom ICAO code and get the metar from there, or to add directly the metar code. I don't get what you would like to list in the dropdown menù.

 

At the moment the code is pretty much final and I'm not going to add features till DCSW 2.0 (and the new weather improvement) is out, due to very little spare time.

 

You may change or add by yourself, but you need some lua skills.

 

Consider also that in the current release of the mod, airports are a fixed list... so adding airports could be easy in DCSW 1.2. But as soon as DCSW 1.5 will be out, the list will be dynamically created at each scenery loading, therefore adding airport that aren't already listed in the scenery will be difficult.

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The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.

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Eagle Dynamics get a hold of this guy and pit him on the team! This is awesome!

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Current static weather system is a table of parameters inside the mission file with no spatial variation in the scenery. It's read once at the mix start.

 

So, unless significant changes to the weather system Will be done by ed, the answer is no.

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The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.

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Eagle Dynamics get a hold of this guy and pit him on the team! This is awesome!

 

I already have a (more then) full time Job, And i'm Not a coder... I learned a bit by myself by copy and paste other people work (Grimes, xcom, vicx and some others) ,but it's only an hobby :)

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The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.

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But how dynamic weather work?

If it generate weather parameters why didnt simple download metar string every half of hour? And change weather with little step from previous to current metar?

It will be another great step)))

Anyway thx) for this.

And im join to wish select any airport metar, not only default airports.

And last question: how u decoded metar into in-game weather parameters? I mean can game Distinguish between, for example SHRA and RA? SN or SHSN

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This mod is great idea but works kind of strange.

 

I managed to download METAR only once and for Kutaisi only.

 

Then, in the same mission I clicked on the download button second time and again got the message "DAWS can't retrieve... last available was loaded".

 

The weather parameters in my mission got reverted to default zeros.

 

Moreover, I checked aviationweather.gov directly, and got current METAR

 

Output produced by METARs form (1546 UTC 17 September 2015)

found at http://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/metars/

 

URKK 171530Z 07005MPS CAVOK 23/09 Q1017 R05C/CLRD70 NOSIG RMK QFE760

 

without any problems.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

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Question for users of this mod: Has anyone figured out how to successfully add another airport ICAO to the predefined list to allow for realtime METAR download of a local airport?

 

I don't see any ICAO list definitions in the mod's LUAs, trying to dig that up in DCS core maybe...

 

Nope, not yet. I'm also wanting to do this...

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But how dynamic weather work?

If it generate weather parameters why didnt simple download metar string every half of hour? And change weather with little step from previous to current metar?

It will be another great step)))

Anyway thx) for this.

And im join to wish select any airport metar, not only default airports.

And last question: how u decoded metar into in-game weather parameters? I mean can game Distinguish between, for example SHRA and RA? SN or SHSN

 

I'll try to answer each question:

 

- dynamic is too complex now to be worked on.

- at the moment, the weather is a simple table loaded at mission start, so you can't update it while the mission is ongoing.

- As said before, I will wait for DCSW2 to make a mod. Anyway, it could be possible to modify the mod as you can manually text an ICAO code to be decoded. I honestly started with that solution, to move to a list of airports. It should be possibile to use metar as text too.

- If you read the attached manual, you will see that I didn't made the metar decoding code.. I simply slightly modify it only to fit this use. Anyway, even if the metar code may be able to distinguish showers or rain, you only have "rain" and "storm" in DCS weather code... so.. it won't make difference.

 

Consider that the purpose of this mod is not to improve the weather system (I'm not able to do something like that, I'm not even a programmer!), but only to try to make the DCS weather to fit as much as possibile to a particoular metar code.

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The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.

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This mod is great idea but works kind of strange.

 

I managed to download METAR only once and for Kutaisi only.

 

Then, in the same mission I clicked on the download button second time and again got the message "DAWS can't retrieve... last available was loaded".

 

The weather parameters in my mission got reverted to default zeros.

 

Moreover, I checked aviationweather.gov directly, and got current METAR

 

 

 

without any problems.

 

Any ideas?

 

Well, many airport won't work as they are a military one. But those as Kutaisi that are civil one, should work. That message is displayed when (for any reason) you can't retrieve the metar.

 

I checked it (with others) many times, if the metar is the same it will display another message... and most sadly, I can't reproduce the error.

 

Is this happening more than once?

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The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.

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Question for users of this mod: Has anyone figured out how to successfully add another airport ICAO to the predefined list to allow for realtime METAR download of a local airport?

 

I don't see any ICAO list definitions in the mod's LUAs, trying to dig that up in DCS core maybe...

 

There isn't a real list of ICAO codes, cause they are already coded into DCS. Check line 437 in the DAWS_Weather.lua file: you will find the function that build the table. If you comment that function and manually create table entries, you should be able to get what you want. Please note that this solution won't work in the DCSW2 version cause I tried for DAYS to get a dynamically build table each time you load a map, and I finally got that... so I won't easily revert back :lol:

 

Anyway the best solution is to convert the combobox in a text box, editing the me_weather.lua and me_weather_panel.dlg modded files (and that is what I or you may choose to do after DCSW2 will be out).

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Openbeta: https://github.com/Chromium18/DSMC

 

The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.

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To be clear, if anyone want to "mod the mod", he can freely :D

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Openbeta: https://github.com/Chromium18/DSMC

 

The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.

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airport information is not downloading nothing happens no pulse on the mod

 

Please check if the airport you choose is a civil one and not a military one. Not only the mod, but anyone can't retrieve the METAR of a mil airport. Else, can you please explain better your issue?

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Author of DSMC, mod to enable scenario persistency and save updated miz file

Stable version & site: https://dsmcfordcs.wordpress.com/

Openbeta: https://github.com/Chromium18/DSMC

 

The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.

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Hello everyone,

 

as said before I will aim for some new modifications for DCSW 2.0 release.

 

Anyway, DCS 1.5 has a similar structure to 2.0, so I will update the first post shortly to include a beta version of the current DAWS Weather MOD that should work well in DCSW 1.5

 

EDIT: first post updated.


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The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.

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