1.3 Suggestions
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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=== |
| - | *Have the icon change when it is over a hyperlinked image (eg in the Flags of the World Add-on) - SpaceChicken | + | Update graphics (buttons) to "2005" look. See: [http://xyzxyz.ath.cx/svs.png SVS.png] |
| - | *New toolbar harder to get around than the OSX because the icons on the side don't expand with the main icon - they just expand one by one. [[http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/forums/index.php?showtopic=1518&view=findpost&p=8867 Thread here]]. | + | |
| - | *The country/ regional border style and colour to be selectable. | + | Have a true hardware fullscreen mode so people can use 3D glasses etc. |
| - | *For WW to remember to open on the same spot & detail level where I closed it. Great though that it remembers some things like Lat & Long now. | + | |
| - | *Some view on what actually is in the cache, like a layer showing the various levels already there. | + | ===View=== |
| - | *I'd like to see a possibility to mark an area and download all available data. Like you'd be able to click and drag on a part of a continent or country and say " go fetch everything you have on this". In general, more control of the download, something like a "force download" button. (This guy really wants to kill the servers! - TheBean) | + | *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. |
| - | **It seems the algorithm used to determine which images to download is great if you are not trying to look at anything specific. However, if you want to look at a specific town, or a certain peak, there is no way to indicate that. It can be frustrating watching the program download away, but not download the specific information you are looking for. Perhaps the algorithm could be modified to give a greater importance to the area you click on to center the image. Maybe it could have 2 levels of download priority over surrounding areas. | + | |
| - | *More downlaod info, perhaps a server status image? [[http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/forums/index.php?showtopic=1518&st=0&p=8954&#entry8954 Thread here]] | + | ===GPS integration=== |
| - | * Make bookmarks work like they do in web browsers. You would spin the globe to a certain spot, zoom in, bank and then say "Save this combined location/altitude/bank as a bookmark named X." The actual position saved would be the position of the crosshairs. Then we wouldn't be constrained by having to save bookmarks for locations in the name database. Also there would be a bookmarks menu (not hidden in PlaceFinder) so you could show off WW really easily. | + | 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] |
| - | *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. | + | |
| - | *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) | + | We need an LGPL or OSI licensed NMEA library to start with. |
| - | *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. | + | |
| - | *Move Modis-pics beneath Placenames.. would be great to be able to spot the right areas even under a Modis-pic. | + | maybe easily doable via the weblink capabilities of worldwind ? then the gps receiver software only has to produce a valid worldwind link. |
| - | *Make something like: File -> Proxy Settings...It does not work with the proxy set on Internet Options all the time :( | + | |
| - | **This is a known issue. Proxies work, but authenticating proxies don't, so far. | + | Display other coordinate/grid systems, selection of lat/lon lines frequency. |
| - | * add the possibility to use a TextureUrl tag instead of a TextureFilePath (for the icons for example) so that the icon can be modified depending on what the underlying webserver will return. | + | |
| - | * add the possibility to use a package from an url so than any change on the package is reported when worldwind starts again | + | ===HI FOLKS !=== |
| - | * add text color choice (1 per category:city/country...) | + | |
| - | * distance calculation: user click the start point, then the end point, this gives the distance (eventually the difference of height) | + | 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 !!! |
| - | * separate bug category and reporting needed just for place name errors/misspellings/omissions etc. | + | |
| - | * layers such as boundaries float too high, slant view shows them way off actual position | + | 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. | ||
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| + | ===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. | ||
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| + | ===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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[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.
