Thorsten wrote in Sun May 17, 2015 6:15 am:The short user-friendly answer is thus: once AW has been launched nothing else needs to be done while flying over tiles.
Hm... forgive me if
I'm restarting the system all the time, and it looks different to if I just let it run. I suspect what I see on re-starting is the normal behaviour, so is there something wrong with just letting it run? is a bit of an odd question,
It's also actually not exactly what I asked you...
Thorsten wrote in Sun May 17, 2015 6:15 am: and perhaps deserves a pointer to re-think that kind of question rather than a user-friendly answer.
Sometimes rhetorical questions work really well in getting a person to re-think something, and sometimes they don't. Certainly the more technical the question asked to the non-technically-informed person the less it seems capable of promoting a re-think, or a search for more information. Instead it may come off as just sarcastic rhetoric, which isn't necessarily productive.
Now, you wrote: "every time you re-start AW you get a different cloud config which is randomly chosen
but is described by the reported METAR." I suspect that either the word you're looking for is "and" instead of "but", or the word "not" is missing after "which is". The sentence as written is confusing and depending on how it should have been written it changes the meaning radically.
Thorsten wrote in Sun May 17, 2015 6:15 am:I mean, if you honestly assume that I code a system that needs to be re-started every 10 minutes to properly work, then you don't have a very developer-friendly opinion of me, no?
My assumption is that you're a very very good coder/developer, certainly borderline-infinitely beyond my capabilities (as they are near zero). But I also assume that 1) you are a human being, and as such are prone to make mistakes at times, and that 2) you and your code isn't the only ones in FlightGear, meaning that at least to my mind it would be possible for others to break what you have created.
I understand that some transition is necessary during which weather is "combined" (is the word you chose I believe), and that between A and B there are X number of other METAR strings being picked up by the simulator, it's just that the difference between "flying into" and "spawning"/"re-launching" seemed bigger than expected - again from my perspective as a user. At one point I would expect that the "combining" of weather from different stations would be "dropped" and only the closest station - presumably at the airport - would provide the sole METAR string that would be the basis for weather.
If you're telling me the difference is to be expected and is the best solution then that's fine. I absolutely accept that.