Condor 2 on Linux + miscellaneous
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 5:55 am
I just bought Condor 2 that I installed on the same Windoze 7 virtual machine.
I would say that Condor 2 is more or less working. By setting the graphic controls to medium, I get a decent 25 fps, which is marginal but usable. I did not run VMware as root. I know that Google-Earth needs to be run as root to get a smooth flow.
About VMware, I never tried with a host as Windoze 7 running as root. I did not spend a lot of time on tweaking the graphic rendering. So if BootCamp is as good as VMware, the Mac geeks should be able to run Condor 2 without problem.
I noticed that the computation of the cloud base is strictly based on the Henning formula (125 metres per kelvin). I do think that the documentation should have a small theoretical part (Henning, Brunt-Väisälä frequency and others). I did not test the waves because I have no scenery about Minden in V2. I flew there several times and I have a vivid memory of my adventures. So with this scenery, I would like to reproduce my flight. I have a question about wave: what is dU / dz where U is the synoptic wind?
I do have the trace, movies and soundings about these adventurous flights. What is the distance between primary and secondary wave? How is it computed? Also, is Condor 1 still available; I am not joking because there are tons of scenery in V1 and it will take a long while that we will get equivalent scenery in V2 since there is no convertor.
Thanks to the developers for the job done.
I would say that Condor 2 is more or less working. By setting the graphic controls to medium, I get a decent 25 fps, which is marginal but usable. I did not run VMware as root. I know that Google-Earth needs to be run as root to get a smooth flow.
About VMware, I never tried with a host as Windoze 7 running as root. I did not spend a lot of time on tweaking the graphic rendering. So if BootCamp is as good as VMware, the Mac geeks should be able to run Condor 2 without problem.
I noticed that the computation of the cloud base is strictly based on the Henning formula (125 metres per kelvin). I do think that the documentation should have a small theoretical part (Henning, Brunt-Väisälä frequency and others). I did not test the waves because I have no scenery about Minden in V2. I flew there several times and I have a vivid memory of my adventures. So with this scenery, I would like to reproduce my flight. I have a question about wave: what is dU / dz where U is the synoptic wind?
I do have the trace, movies and soundings about these adventurous flights. What is the distance between primary and secondary wave? How is it computed? Also, is Condor 1 still available; I am not joking because there are tons of scenery in V1 and it will take a long while that we will get equivalent scenery in V2 since there is no convertor.
Thanks to the developers for the job done.