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Jonathan Nathanson   17th Dec 2012 01:45:15 | Hi Dave & fsOpen community!
Wingman, from msFlights.net here. My community members had a great idea, and I'd like to ask about the feasability of that idea here... We usually do -not- use real-world time in our server. Often, this results in a little trial-and-error when players attempt to find daylight in the server. In hopes of helping them from having to connect, check the time, then re-connect, can we: Modify the embedded fsOpen Server map as seen on our website so that the current IN-GAME time is reflected by way of a sun/shadow sine-wave? See the following as an example: http://www.daylightmap.com/ Your thoughts? Respects, Wingman www.msFlights.net |
Dave Wave  17th Dec 2012 10:04:06 | I like it. Will investigate.
In the meantime I'll look at capturing the time from the server to display on the information tab of each session. Another win over GameSplat :) |
Geoff Brayshaw  17th Dec 2012 12:11:09 | Superb idea, Jonathan |
| Jonathan Nathanson 5th Jan 2013 03:08:52 | Just wanted to say: Well done; it looks great!
-Wingman |
Robert Dunn  5th Jan 2013 06:08:23 | Many of the useful FSOoen tools and features remain under the hood or they go unnoticed, unappreciated or taken for granted by our membership. Implementation of daylight map in the FSOpen displays on our forum homepage has immediately met widespread acclaim and appreciation. The decision on where to fly has become much easier to make with this new information graphically represented. Again, from all of the pilots at msFLIGHTS.net, thank you very much for yet another very useful tool, Mr. Wave.
Respects, Robert Dunn 2 |
Robert Cohen  5th Jan 2013 15:00:38 | Hello Dave can you check are day light dark time map thingy it seems that its not in sink with the time that's set on our server we set it for real worlds time est -5gmt thanks Dave maybe I am doing something wrong |
| Curley Campbell 5th Jan 2013 15:02:08 | Looks good ... however, 2 problems for me. 1) Day/Night not tied to actual session time. 2) Players aircraft now not being shown in the correct location. |
| Dave Wave 5th Jan 2013 15:23:20 | Curley,
You need to restart FSopen server to get the latest version for the maps to work. |
| Robert Cohen 6th Jan 2013 15:31:20 | hello Dave I know you are busy but can you check out the daylight map its not working for us its suck on night at one spot on the east coast thanks Dave |
| Dave Wave 6th Jan 2013 16:31:47 | Working with Rob to fix.
I think it's servers being fresh installs do not have simconnect on them. Rob testing for us. |
| Curley Campbell 7th Jan 2013 02:47:03 | Concur..map still out of sync with session... but have been busy today. |
| Dave Wave 7th Jan 2013 11:09:35 | Well, version 0.91 should fix it.
I'm using SimConnect to get the time, for some bizarre reason it wasn't connecting on 30% of machines. I've added a simconnect status line to the bottom of the server. Once your session starts this should turn green if it connects ok. I've changed the code around and it works on Eastern Hops now. Hopefully it will work on everyone else's too. If your time is being posted on the session info box now there is no need to update to this version. |
| Robert Cohen 7th Jan 2013 17:39:30 | its working great Dave Thanks alot for your help |
| Curley Campbell 7th Jan 2013 21:09:27 | Maybe I should clarify.. in my case.. it appears it is picking up the TIME of my server located in Montana, USA.
What I would like to see it pick up is the time set in FSX session... so the map would reflect the actual hours of daylight for the "AREA" we are flying in. In my case Rio de Janerio, Brazil. If the latest version was to correct that issue.. in my case, it has not. |
| Dave Wave 7th Jan 2013 21:14:30 | Curley, on the session info it shows Zulu and local. The map is set on Zulu time.
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| Curley Campbell 7th Jan 2013 23:05:33 | Yes, Dave... I understand.
However.. The session list however currently shows 20:42 Z, The map sine wave shows the area DARK. The session local time is 14:02 Z.. in the afternoon and daylight. That's where I'm coming from. If, someone simply looked at the map... they would think it is dark.. at 9pm Brazil time.. and possibly decide not to fly... of course it is currently in the afternoon. IF, that makes sense. |
| Dave Wave 7th Jan 2013 23:51:03 | Local time is wherever the host is. If the host moves timezones local time will change, Zulu stays the same obviously.
It looks like your server picked up the time at some point and then stopped. Its still saying 20:42. I'd like to have a look at your server to see what's happening. |
| Curley Campbell 8th Jan 2013 00:16:33 | Probably the fact I lost FSOPEN on the firewall... re-entered Inbound/Outbound again. That will probably sort itself out when I restart. Yeah, I didn't notice it was stuck there.
If you still need in.. jump on my TS and I will TeamView over to the remote console to the server side. |
| Curley Campbell 8th Jan 2013 00:27:10 | Looks like that fixed the issue. Thanks for jarring me in the head.. I didn't notice the time had stopped. |
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