Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather scenarios / local weather

[James T. <ja...@fl...>]

> On 28 Sep 2020, at 17:36, Thorsten Renk <tho...@sc...> wrote:
> 
> If the only reason is lack of awareness of features on the AW GUI, the solution is to raise awareness of that GUI (which contains a ton of other options you really should adjust to your system). You need it to get decent visibility (the default is very conservative), thermals, the air pollution feature,... so this isn't a 'don't really need' part of the GUI that should be ignored by default.

I would say the current GUI is invisible, since I didn’t even know it existed, or that I should look at it when enabling AW :)

Long-long term I plan to move (nearly) all settings under a single searchable dialog, but it would be good to find an interim way to increase the visibility of the AW dialog.

Could we make a button in the ‘rendering settings’ dialog to open the AW one, if AW is enabled? I.e add an entry saying:
	
	'Advanced weather is enabled, please check visibility and cloud settings [here]’ 

(or whatever wording people prefer…)

That would be a low risk improvement for 2020.2 release, I would say.

Kind regards,
James