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Ever since FSX beta back in 2006 I've been longing to develop a freeware FSX addon that is very easy to do, and provides some pretty incredible experiences in the sim.
There's active global wild fire detection data (24 hr, 48 hr, and 7 day in KML, SHP and CSV formats) at https://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/near-real-time-data/firms/active-fire-data that can be easily used to place wildfire effects in FSX with flames and fire.
Jim Keir years ago grabbed some open source code and helped write a script that can convert point data to object/fx placement in an FSX/P3D bgl. Unfortunately the KML format has changed since 2006 and I don't know how to re-tool it for the new KML files.
The same tool can be used to place scenery objects from KML point files.
What I'm needing is someone who can code a small program that can pull the source KML (or CSV or SHP) file from the website every day (can be a scheduled task) and then run bglcomp.exe over the resulting placement file and save the BGL into one of the FS scenery directories.
Basically it can automate the placement of global wildfires in sim that respond to wind direction and strength. If it's automated (or even has a weather update simconnect module) then every day in sim will be a new experience. Automatic dynamic scenery.
Further to this, the project could be expanded to placement of icebergs or even NOAA buoys that have their lat/lon updated every day.
Arno, I'm thinking scenproc could be used for part of this quite easily or something similar if it could be run as a service.
Cheers,
Dean.
There's active global wild fire detection data (24 hr, 48 hr, and 7 day in KML, SHP and CSV formats) at https://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/near-real-time-data/firms/active-fire-data that can be easily used to place wildfire effects in FSX with flames and fire.
Jim Keir years ago grabbed some open source code and helped write a script that can convert point data to object/fx placement in an FSX/P3D bgl. Unfortunately the KML format has changed since 2006 and I don't know how to re-tool it for the new KML files.
The same tool can be used to place scenery objects from KML point files.
What I'm needing is someone who can code a small program that can pull the source KML (or CSV or SHP) file from the website every day (can be a scheduled task) and then run bglcomp.exe over the resulting placement file and save the BGL into one of the FS scenery directories.
Basically it can automate the placement of global wildfires in sim that respond to wind direction and strength. If it's automated (or even has a weather update simconnect module) then every day in sim will be a new experience. Automatic dynamic scenery.
Further to this, the project could be expanded to placement of icebergs or even NOAA buoys that have their lat/lon updated every day.
Arno, I'm thinking scenproc could be used for part of this quite easily or something similar if it could be run as a service.
Cheers,
Dean.