Jeroen Schlaman wrote:Hello Rob,
The wind will be more realistic, because we are going to use GRIB file support. Therefore realtime wind can be generated for any place on earth.
We will include a so called world-scenery. This includes the whole world in a simple DEM-like terrain with simple texturing. So you can sail around the world from let's say Holland to Australia and sail along coastlines and open seas.
This world-scenery can be filled with detail by us or every other user (with the scenery designer - release unknown yet). You can pick a certain block of terrain (several km's square big) and edit this to your needs. After creating you can share it with every other SS5 user.
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Hello Jeroen
With few details given about the scenery designer from the description it may be too basic for my interests.
Unless the basic satellite srtm2 data can be adjusted to open up the small bays, inlets, rivers, etc it would loose much realism.
An example in the river Conway scenery I made and the river Mersey upper reaches. The basic dem srtm2 data (or similar) requires terrain to be adjusted with some sort of dem editor as in the current SS4.2 and in the motorboat simulator.
The same applies to low lying islands, etc. These need to be manually adjusted to show up as not visible with srtm2 data.
Will the satellite data have to be downloaded first using broadband if high resoloution, as still using dial up connection which is OK for srtm2 as file size is fairly small for up to about 40 miles area?
Is so again no use for me as not ready to change over to it yet, plus new computer would then need wireless card etc.
Incidentally will SS5 be available on disc from my usual UK Stentec supplier, as with SS4.2 and motorboat simulator.
Will it include the relevant satellite world maps on DVD, etc to avoid having to download them?
Do you know what quarter of 2008 it might be available as seems to have been deferred for a "few years" so far since first mentioned, and interest on these forums has waned over the years?
Thanks
Barry
