REQ: Wind Speed

[Jazcash]

Could somebody make a small and simple widget which displays the current wind speed? Would be much appreciated so then I know when to go in for the pow pow with mai Com.

[bobthedinosaur]

EDIT: I wish I knew what I was talking about.

[Beherith]

Spring.GetWind

( ) -> number dirX, number dirY, number dirZ,
number strength, number normDirX, number normDirY, number normDirZ

[manolo_]

do u mean the current energy output made by a windmill (if yes look at iceui and windcheck ) or the windspeed (?)

[Jazcash]

do u mean the current energy output made by a windmill (if yes look at iceui and windcheck ) or the windspeed (?)

That's the average guess at the game start. I want a widget which shows the windspeed all the through the game updating in time with the windmills.

[Pako]

If it's worth doing it's worth overdoing.

name = "Wind Helper",
desc =
Shows wind info and when to build wind.
The next wind vector turning point displays the immediate wind forecast.
Forecast text tells the forecast from integrated winds.
(current economy and wind mean affects what to build but not the forecasts)

The next spring version will break this widget.

[Jazcash]

Very nice, I like it. Although, my GUI is chunked up already with stuff so I'd appreciate just the figure of current windspeed with maybe a pic of a windmill next to it to indicate what it is.

If you want to make it more cool an all, making it moveable, resizeable and recolourable would be awesome

[manolo_]

upload it to widgetdb (marked as hidden)

[JohannesH]

If you dont want to clog the interface an option is to just group 1 windmill to somewhere like 8-0, then checking it is just 1 keypress away. And its easy to ctrl-z from there to see your overall windmill count which is useful too.

[Pako]

Of course it must be moveable, resizeable and recolourable, why didn't I think of that.

(recolour by scrolling over the resize button)

[Jazcash]

Again, a simple version with just the wind speed would be more fitting for me. Here, I even made an icon for you'z

[KaiserJ]

cool.

i often wished for this but imagined it too trivial to ask for.

[Pako]

Again, a simple version with just the wind speed would be more fitting for me. Here, I even made an icon for you'z

Just add following code to any widget that doesn't have widget:DrawScreen() function.

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function widget:DrawScreen()
gl.Color(1,1,1,1)
gl.Texture('LuaUI/Images/Windmill.png')
gl.TexRect(100,100,111,111)
gl.Texture(false)
local _,  _,  _,  wind = Spring.GetWind()
gl.Text(wind, 100, 100, 14, "ao")
end

[Jazcash]

Again, a simple version with just the wind speed would be more fitting for me. Here, I even made an icon for you'z

Just add following code to any widget that doesn't have widget:DrawScreen() function.

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function widget:DrawScreen()
gl.Color(1,1,1,1)
gl.Texture('LuaUI/Images/Windmill.png')
gl.TexRect(100,100,111,111)
gl.Texture(false)
local _,  _,  _,  wind = Spring.GetWind()
gl.Text(wind, 100, 100, 14, "ao")
end

Exactly what I wanted but with one decimal place instead of 13 or so Also, the windmill icon to the left of the text instead of above it would be epic winrar. Thanks for such win

[lurker]

I'm sure you can manage to adjust the locations yourself. To make it one decimal place, change the text line's 'wind' to 'string.format("%.1f",wind)'.

[Spawn_Retard]

If it's worth doing it's worth overdoing.

name = "Wind Helper",
desc = "Shows wind info and when to build wind.
The next wind vector turning point displays the immediate wind forecast.
Forecast text tells the forecast from integrated winds.\n(current economy and wind mean affects what to build but not the forecasts)",

This widget is sex.

[smoth]

it is not going to BREAK anything, you just need to adjust your equation.

[Spawn_Retard]

If it's worth doing it's worth overdoing.

name = "Wind Helper",
desc =
Shows wind info and when to build wind.
The next wind vector turning point displays the immediate wind forecast.
Forecast text tells the forecast from integrated winds.
(current economy and wind mean affects what to build but not the forecasts)

The next spring version will break this widget.

please fix it so it wont break!

your widget is goddly.

[Pako]

please fix it so it wont break!

your widget is goddly.

I'll see how the winds are blowing in few months from now and maybe fix then(I'm not sure how BA will accept so major change and developers aren't very sensitive for fixing things either).

Immediate wind forecast will be broken anyway because the wind change vector will be curved so the turning point would be too hard to detect.

[Jazcash]

Some graphical effects of wind would be nice. Like particles blowing into wind direction or maybe plasma blown by 0.009%.