Re: [Flightgear-devel] Volcano - scenery model or AI scenario?

[Thorsten R. <tho...@sc...>]

> Well, since you're planning on doing this manually, volcano by volcano,  
> you
> could compile an activity  list from here, and use the time/date feature:
>
> http://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=372020
>
> thus avoiding the random activity model.
>
> Alternatively, the weekly active volcanoes could maybe be scraped from  
> that
> same site?



It's a really good idea, it's just not how my (very personal) view on  
simulating the world is. I prefer to see the environment as a world  
simulation engine that you can configure to your needs, not as a  
re-creation machine of real events.

For the same reason, I much prefer the offline weather engine over METAR  
fetching, running an Aurora computation model over fetching space weather  
or manually setting snowline over attempting to set it from METAR.

If anyone wants to go the extra mile with this, I can make the hooks in  
the design for it.

* Thorsten