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-Hi everyone. Click edit at the top of the page to edit this page. Type an asterisk to start a bullet list - please format different points to different bullets, like in Word etc. Feel free to add your comments to any points, too, in square brackets. If you add your forums username too, that would be much appreciated. Thankyou for your time!+<div style="font-weight:bold;font-size:larger;">This document has been deprecated in favor of [[World Wind Issues]]. It is left here for historical purposes only.</div>
-==Suggestions to improve 1.3==+===Graphics===
-*Motion momentum : it works now with speed (2 dimensions) and rotation in heading. It would be great to extend it to zoom motion and to tilt and bank rotations.+Update graphics (buttons) to "2005" look. See: [http://xyzxyz.ath.cx/svs.png SVS.png]
-*Planet axis unlocked : the movement id higher than the mouse deplacement : why ? It would be better if it were as in locked mode, i.e. if you click on a point at the surface and drag it with the mouse, the same point remains under the mouse. I understand that it will be true only for a small latitude or longitude change (under 10° or so) but that is the case most of the time (when altitude is not too high)+
-*Mode indication : I did not see any indication (other than inside the View menu, which is not visible in normal use) of which modes are selected (motion momentum, point to go, planet axis lock, gravity, bank). It would be good to have it in the toolbar, with a clickable selection/unselection button for each. Also shortkeys for the new modes could be useful.+
-*Planet axis locked : I don't understand very well the purpose of this mode. It seems that the planet axis is not really locked, except whith left button horizontal clik&drag (moving esatwards or westwards along a parallel). Vertical dragging controls moving northwards or southwards (along a meridian) in which case the planet axis is rotating...In this mode, when the planet axis is horizontal on the screen, it would be better if the movement was in the same orientation as the planet (i.e. when moving the mouse up or down, moving esat/west on the earth, not north/south as when the planet axis si vertical).+
-*With motion momentum, it seems that the axis is not locked even when selected.+
-==Implemented==+Have a true hardware fullscreen mode so people can use 3D glasses etc.
-*Planet "Gravity" : isn't it planet inertia ? --[[User:Mashiharu|Mashiharu]] 18:04, 3 Mar 2005 (MST)+ 
 +===View===
 +*Possibility to switch from "flying over" view to view from selected point from the surface - for example to simulate panoramic view from a mountain top.
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 +===GPS integration===
 +it would be nice to interface WW with a common GPS receiver. I think is non difficult for developers who made this wonderful tool. [moved from Talk page]
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 +We need an LGPL or OSI licensed NMEA library to start with.
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 +maybe easily doable via the weblink capabilities of worldwind ? then the gps receiver software only has to produce a valid worldwind link.
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 +Display other coordinate/grid systems, selection of lat/lon lines frequency.
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 +===HI FOLKS !===
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 +What are all these wonderfull appreciations..thousands rows for, while World Wind 1.3 full.exe still have an essential..huge error: it can not be installed on any true reliable PC because it is self-frozen during self-installation even after successfully passed self-verifying phase !!!
 + 
 +This is happenned during any trying to install, on XP PRO SP at least full Intel 4, DirectX90c, GB free etc
 +(I tried 4 times on 3 different PCs all of them original hardware and licensed software will all service packs updated and working finely with lot of other applications and installers excepting new WorldWind 1.3 which get frozen in the middle of writing huge number dds files...
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 +===Weather Data===
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 +I would like to see more weather data, preferably realtime, available as an overlay for World Wind. Such as NOAA infrared, water vapor, and viable views. Radar data as an overlay would be a very helpful and interesting visual.
 + 
 +===Sky===
 +Sky is always 'blue' - I know it might not be too realistic, but could we put some kind of background image there (clouds, night sky?)? Or maybe sun and moon, according to date/time/timezone? I tried the Mars and Moon maps, and the sky turned blue there too as far as I remember...
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 +===Data Management===
 +For collaborative work around the same set of data (e.g. an architecture studio of 12 people researching the same site), it would make sense to be able to set up a local server of some kind. This could involve marking an enclosed "zone" on the surface of the WW globe and associating all views within that zone with this local server. It would take load off the larger servers and speed up the 'user experience' for anybody sharing that data.
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 +===Aeroplane navigation===
 +An alternative navigation system would be nice, more like an aeroplane.
 +E.g. Y-axis = speed forward/backward; X-axis = turn left/right; mouse wheel = head down/up.
 +And, very important, an emergency brake.
 + 
 +===Rendering movie===
 +I would like to render an animation in World Wind. Define two point or a path along the surface, the camera follow the path and the software record frame by frame to make a movie. the user control the codec (generic windows media video codec), quality and frames/s, controling the camera altitud, angle, tilt...it would be perfect for World Wind.
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This document has been deprecated in favor of World Wind Issues. It is left here for historical purposes only.

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[edit] Graphics

Update graphics (buttons) to "2005" look. See: SVS.png

Have a true hardware fullscreen mode so people can use 3D glasses etc.

[edit] View

  • Possibility to switch from "flying over" view to view from selected point from the surface - for example to simulate panoramic view from a mountain top.

[edit] GPS integration

it would be nice to interface WW with a common GPS receiver. I think is non difficult for developers who made this wonderful tool. [moved from Talk page]

We need an LGPL or OSI licensed NMEA library to start with.

maybe easily doable via the weblink capabilities of worldwind ? then the gps receiver software only has to produce a valid worldwind link.

Display other coordinate/grid systems, selection of lat/lon lines frequency.

[edit] HI FOLKS !

What are all these wonderfull appreciations..thousands rows for, while World Wind 1.3 full.exe still have an essential..huge error: it can not be installed on any true reliable PC because it is self-frozen during self-installation even after successfully passed self-verifying phase !!!

This is happenned during any trying to install, on XP PRO SP at least full Intel 4, DirectX90c, GB free etc (I tried 4 times on 3 different PCs all of them original hardware and licensed software will all service packs updated and working finely with lot of other applications and installers excepting new WorldWind 1.3 which get frozen in the middle of writing huge number dds files...

[edit] Weather Data

I would like to see more weather data, preferably realtime, available as an overlay for World Wind. Such as NOAA infrared, water vapor, and viable views. Radar data as an overlay would be a very helpful and interesting visual.

[edit] Sky

Sky is always 'blue' - I know it might not be too realistic, but could we put some kind of background image there (clouds, night sky?)? Or maybe sun and moon, according to date/time/timezone? I tried the Mars and Moon maps, and the sky turned blue there too as far as I remember...

[edit] Data Management

For collaborative work around the same set of data (e.g. an architecture studio of 12 people researching the same site), it would make sense to be able to set up a local server of some kind. This could involve marking an enclosed "zone" on the surface of the WW globe and associating all views within that zone with this local server. It would take load off the larger servers and speed up the 'user experience' for anybody sharing that data.

[edit] Aeroplane navigation

An alternative navigation system would be nice, more like an aeroplane. E.g. Y-axis = speed forward/backward; X-axis = turn left/right; mouse wheel = head down/up. And, very important, an emergency brake.

[edit] Rendering movie

I would like to render an animation in World Wind. Define two point or a path along the surface, the camera follow the path and the software record frame by frame to make a movie. the user control the codec (generic windows media video codec), quality and frames/s, controling the camera altitud, angle, tilt...it would be perfect for World Wind.

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