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10月27日 Weather Maker RX DEMO RELEASED!!PRESS RELEASE FROM CALIBRE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
Calibre Software Solutions is pleased to annouce the release of the free demo version
of Weather Maker RX. This demo version of the next generation of Weather Maker Engines is limited to the
area of weather around KBHM - Birmingham, Alabama USA. Thus, you may only fly in that area for now to view the weather. Weather Maker RX is compatible with Microsoft's FS9 and FSX. For operation with FS9 you
must have installed FSUIPC 3.7.0+ and for FSX you must have FSUIPC 4 installed. Weather Maker RX is the most simpliest, yet robust Weather Engine that includes the new
AMWE (Accurate Meteorological Weather Engine) using real meteorological equations and formulas. Yet the weather engine is completely integrated with in its new WNX-50 Weather DataLink Radar gauge
offering the first graphical view of the weather situation around you. Weather Maker RX when released will be the start of long line of Weather Add-ons for Flight Simulator 9 and X
from Calibre Software Solutions. You give the demo a test drive at: www.weather-maker.com Wow - Weather Maker is linked to Global Warming!Ah now I thought that Title would get your attention.
I just did a search on google.com for weather-maker and noticed on the left an advertisement for a book by Tim Flannery called: "The Weather-Makers: How man is changing the Climate and What it means for life on the earth."
Okay I am not trying to be sarcastic about a very serious topic for a lot of people - I just thought I found it interesting. When I went to the link on Amazon.com I saw a lot of articles using the name Weather Maker and Global Warming.
So what do you think - is man changing the climate or is the climate changing itself?
I don't want this to become a bashing on the politics and who should be doing what, but I would like to know what people think and why. So if it is politicial to you then DON'T comment.
10月25日 Long but cool flight from AtlantaYesterday I was flying in a Delta 757 at about 35000 ft and we hit an incredible Lightning Storm over West Texas.
It was a pretty smooth flight till then. I was dosing off in that it was about 12AM from where I came and had some serious jet lag. Then all of sudden the plane started bouncing all over the place. I looked outside the window and saw all kinds of lightning. It was spectacular.
Now if I can just create that same effect in FSX!! 10月17日 My thoughts on Weather Engines for Flight SimulatorOkay you might think I am going to be really biased on a blog devoted to Weather Maker. Well you are wrong.
I look at it this way the goal of all us Weather Freaks for Flight Simulator is to create the most realistic experience in weather possible. I mean face it - it really is the only thing besides the aircraft having problems that gives a pilot pure problems. Unless you fly combat sims of course. But for the Flight Sim user in my humble opionion it is the weather that gives the depth and challenge from start to finish.
Are you like me that before I start Flight Sim I look for the most challenging weather area and do crossover flights all day long in and out of the soup. I am glad I do not fly for a real carrier. I would have been fired a long time ago.
So who benefits in this is YOU the customer. And who goes insane is our wives, in that we the developers spend time trying to out do the other.
Believe it or not Damian from Active Sky and I actually talked this past summer about our projects and how it affects our wives. A very nice guy by the way.
Well before I developed Weather Maker, I pretty much tried them all.
I tried Wetter 2004, FSMETEO (I forget which version), Active Sky 5 and 6, FSMetar (free version), and a few of the Weather Themes that were created on the market out there.
I must say that all of them had an interesting bent on how the developers viewed the weather for Flight Sim.
Some took more a realistic view whereas some as a more Simulated approach. For example I liked what Klaus (which I am probably writing his name incorrectly) did with Wetter 2004. Instead of approaching weather from a downloaded source he approached it from more of a simulated view in which Wetter 2004 created random weather. It was my best choice for simulated weather at first for a long time.
I liked Active Sky because of Damian's work to take the real-time weather experience beyond just weather, but actually the clouds and sky textures - that was until Peter Wilding came out with Flight Environment 2004 and GE - then things just got better. (Credit must also go to Anthony Voz and Carl Hackman) - Three of the nicest guys you could talk to.
So where am I going with this and why did I not mention Weather Maker. Well I wanted to show I am not biased - I just like weather. As a matter of fact I like it so much I consider Flight Simulator more of a way to create a weather simulator than a flight simulator.
I imagine with the advent of the Simconnect SDK for FSX there will be more Weather Engines to choose from. In which I will probably spend my money on to try out to see what perspective each developer takes.
Ok I will admit I don't just use Weather Maker all the time. I am not afraid to say that. Like I said each one of these weather tools I mentioned above play a different part. If anything this gives the market a rich experience for the user.
Of course none of the weather engines that are out there could be possible if it weren't for Pete Dowson's hard work on FSUIPC. I must say over the past several years he worked very hard to expand FSUIPC from when I first started programming with it. - Bravo Mr. Dowson!
Ok I am going to leave it at that and not go any further - except I look forward to what the next generation will bring. Actually, I am looking most forward to what Vista and Direct X does to FSX. If the images that I have seen come even close to what is expected, it will be the closest I have seen to really flying an airplane. Gee I guess I am going to have to save my money for that too.
A BIG thank you to all at ACES, for putting out another great product - without you then none of this would be happening at all!!!
10月12日 Get ready for an El Nino Year!!What a change from last year in regards to the Weather in the Western US!
Check out the ITCZ:
This will be a very wet year for the southern tier states. Now the question is will they say it is because of Global Warming!
(Don't get me started!) Great Book to Read for Weather Nuts!In my spare time - yeah right!
I have been reading (actually listening) to a great book called: Isaac's Storm.
This is the story about the man how was in charge of the Weather Service office in Galvaston Texas on September 8, 1900. The story is about historic accounts and events that lead up to the most deadly hurricane to hit the US.
It is a very interesting read and very thought provoking. 10月11日 In The WorksWell I am sitting excited about the future of WM and FS and what it will bring. Man have the emails been pouring in about what is coming up. Also some have wondered about the future of WMPRO. Weather Maker Pro will be replaced with a new version called #!=-!#. Oops I can't disclose the name yet but it will be really cool. This very soon to be wx engine will be the first in a generation of weather tools offered this time. It will first be released for FS9, then a couple weeks later offered for FSX. It will utilize the new SimConnect tool. The FS9 version will only use FSUIPC 3. So stay tuned for more info. |
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