ink_polaroidAdministrator
(Sysop)
04/15/05 02:04 AM
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Re: Weather Centre v1.0

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My thought was sort of based on the play function. Couldnt it be possible to load a series of overlays like a loop into one folder then simply start on the first one and hit play ???




It would be nice, yes, but unfortunately it's not that simple. There are two immediate stumbling blocks:

Firstly: for those of us with the el cheapo LT/NV version of Keyhole (and that's most of us), it's only possible to view one overlay at a time.

Secondly: Pro users can switch on multiple overlays. And while this is nice for flying from place to place on autopilot (tracking the path of a hurricane, for example), what I think you're getting at is the ability to view a timelapse movie of, say, the last half-hour's rainfall over the Bay Area. This means viewing the same patch of ground, so simply switching on all your overlays is going to create a nasty Picasso effect.

There is a solution, though. With various scripting doohickies, it's possible to feed dynamic image URLs to Keyhole. Check the attachment if you'd like to see a timelapse of my local NEXRAD doppler radar over the last half hour.

(You may have to double-click the folder to force Keyhole to fly to the location. There are five images, changing every ten seconds.)

I'm working on expanding this. But ... I'm a hundred pages into a hundred books, y'know?




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