benih wrote in Tue May 18, 2021 9:34 pm:I watched a video about thermals.
Getting the location of the thermals would enable a nice feature: birds (spawned ai circling upwards as indication seems to often be used)
Actually, that used to be a feature found in FG at some point (in the pre-AW days) - you can still find the corresponding screen shots in the devel list archives, some of the most senior contributors (Curt or Erik) should remember the details. There were even 3D models added for flocks of birds.
Again, all this took place in the pre-AW days and was using the hard-coded "AI thermals" system IIRC.
For the details, see the archives and the commit logs or ask around.
Either way, we should have all the tooling in place to replicate that functionality - for starters, you could even instantiate other gliders and use an adapted version of tanker.nas to seek thermals and circle there. All of this should be possible in Nasal space.