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Offline Hamish

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« on: November 03, 2000, 04:58:00 PM »
How do i set wind speed/alt/direction?

Thx!

Hamish!

Offline Westy

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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2000, 05:05:00 PM »
Good question! I'd like to know too.

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Offline Dinger

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« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2000, 07:22:00 PM »
the .wind command
something like .wind (compass heading) (speed) (vert)
you can also set wind layers that way.  When you screw up, the error messages help you out.

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« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2000, 11:15:00 PM »
Here's what you do:

.wind alt heading speed rise-speed

An example:
.wind 7000 180 10 5

This creates a wind layer from 7,000 feet to 30,000 feet, blowing South at 10mph, with a 5mph rise. Fairly simple actually. You can play around with it offline, by blowing up a fuel bunker. Watch the smoke direction from a fixed position, and change the settings as necessary. Note that you don't need to give a rise speed if you don't want one. Simply leave out that variable and it'll still work. I created a wind layer from 0-8,000 feet that had a 120mph rise. Had my B-17 at 8k in under a minute, and when I trimmed level, the nose was pointing down at 35º!!! Kinda fun actually.

Note: Wind in the arena is currently blowing South from sea level to 10k, at around 8mph.




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Offline Hamish

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« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2000, 08:06:00 AM »
Thanks Dinger/Flakbait, i've been curious to test it out offline/H2H to see what diff/interesting wind effects i could do  

(and to try out that hard ceiling at 15k and see what happens   )


Hamish!