Wind Bug Found in DCS: World 1.2.7

[Boris]

What I think people want is to be able to set a 'maximum' value for wind speed.

 

The altitudes you can set wind speeds for should be the altitudes where wind speeds peak.

 

For exanple if you got rid of the 10m setting and made it 200m instead, people would know that the wind speed between 0-200m will be not be higher than what they set in the editor.

 

 

That sounds like a good solution.

 

A drop in wind from 200-0m sounds completely plausible, but it would be better if it scaled the wind speed of the bottom layer down, rather than to scale up the wind speed of the bottom layer based on the windspeed at sea level (does that make sense?).

 

As it is now, mission designers need to halve the windspeed of the bottom layer, to match the windspeed of the second layer, if they want a consitent wind.

 

In any case, the wind in the bottom layer will always be roughly twice that set in the mission editor, except for a few hundred meters above sea level.

 

I fear many mission designers don't know that they should halve the wind speed of the bottom wind layer to achieve the desired effect.

[howie87]

Exactly. Any wind speed entered in the mission editor should be the maximum speed for the particular altitude range. Wind speed either side should decrease unless you set the adjacent altitude range to a higher wind speed.