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Hello. I posted this yesterday but deleted it because I wanted to confirm. The weather is being pulled from its source correctly and placed into the mission. However, I find on every case the winds are been generated 180 degrees off the actual forecasted wind.

Example metar at KLSV was indicating conditions at 170/ 17 SKC 32 degrees and alimeter was 29.72.

In the sim itself the conditions were 350/ 17 SKC 32 degrees 29.72. So everything things is been generated except the winds are always been generated 180 degrees off. Any ideas why?

 

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The weather is pulled from the internet from the entered airport, I think DCS does wind direction arse about face if I remember correctly in the ME

 

 

Hi Wood.

Whose solution are you using?

HC_official's?

 

 

Deadpool

 

 

I would guess he is using our one, since this thread is specifically about that, barring some posts were someone has tried to hijack this thread to promote his own stuff ..... not cool by the way


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edit: I appear to have fixed the above by elevated priv for python

I'm curios on the time settings? Is there a setting to adjust from Zulu to local as the missions are being set to Zulu but the theatre is +2

 

no, you can use the presets if you want to , time is taken from the PC that is hosting DCS

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Hey guys, 

curious if it still works with 2.7 after the major weather update? 

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4 hours ago, exil said:

Hey guys, 

curious if it still works with 2.7 after the major weather update? 


As far as I know it works, but since it's not going to use DCS 2.7 "cloud preset" only one cloud layer will be rendered.

To get the most beautiful looking clouds at the moment the only way is select one of the cloud preset.

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48 minutes ago, HC_Official said:

It is being worked on to use the new clouds presets based on how the METAR data comes back with cloud info

That would be fantastic. 

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1 hour ago, Poko24 said:

Can't wait already! Thanks.

ok I took a stab at updating it to use new clouds (see first post)

there is also a new feature with the date, there are still presets available

but I have also added a parameter of new

eg

   dcs_weather.py D:\DCS_Missions\Weapons_Training_v2.11.2.miz KLAS UGSS new
   ^ use 2 airports and use the current month BUT pick the night with a FULL MOON

this was designed for our use we run the server for 6 hours at a time before restarts, so you get about 4hours of evening as it gets darker then 2 hours of dark with a full moon

see the read me for more info

 

see how it runs for you I have done some basic testing ............

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On 9/22/2022 at 4:53 PM, Statua said:

Hi are you still keeping this updated? I'd love to use it for our persistent campaign server, but your forum link appears to be dead. 

here is latest build  https://ufile.io/dtcsfsdc

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HI folks, This has been updated due to 2.8 changing some stuff in how data is store in the mission file, if you use the older version it will corrupt your DCS mission!

https://ufile.io/jm68916y

 


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