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Seasons.bgl source imagery?

Gridley

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I am considering writing an application which converts the global snow cover data available via NOAA to a seasons.bgl for using in FS9/X. The issue is that I need a base seasons.bgl with NO snow. Any thoughts on how to accomplish that without reinventing all of the other global seasons data?

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sg
 
Hi Scott.

FS9 and FSX would be different projects. Just from memory, FS9 seasons are a resolution of LOD2 and FSX is LOD5 ( just like our old landclass ). Christian Stock's whitepaper on mesh would describe it.

In FSX, the higher resolution would suggest we use smaller-sized local BGLs to change the seasons. They do not have to be LOD5 sized. To change the entire world would be the same difficulty in accuracy as changing the world's landclass!

Here's a thread that was done already:

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3503


Not only would you have to add the hard-winter value of the fixed data, but you would have to change the default data of hard-winter that is wrong.... and that assumes the regions allow snowcover! Then you may need to change the regions in a separate BGL.

Here's a link to an interesting MPG animation of global snowcover:

http://modis-snow-ice.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/ModisSnowIce_512x288.mpg

Dick
 
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Thanks Dick. It was actually scott's comments on the SBuilder beta that got me thinking! :rolleyes:

I'll move my comments to the other thread - consider this one closed.
 
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