Very early screenshots of new UI/multimap system

NorthAlabamaStormChase

Kirk

Octo?! That’ll look amazing on a 4K display!

Kirk

Just curious. Is it possible to make it so one can have different viewpoints in the panels? With as many as eight panels, being able to have different viewpoints could be useful for viewing micro scale, mesoscale and synoptic scale features simultaneously.

Paul

Kirk Absolutely. Diverse-view multimap concurrent display is one of the signature features of WSV3 Tactical 2025 and the new hardware GPU map rendering engine. See my discussion of this concept above. The approach I am going with for now is a simple checkbox "Interlocked" which will lock all display panels in camera view/timeline state (with the intention that content engines, such as raster data, will have support for submitting diverse content across map slots 1 - 8 for concurrent multiparameter display). If this is unchecked, all of the display panels are fully separate maps with independent style, camera, timeline, and data. I will consider later whether additional logic for synchronizing only certain display panels becomes necessary.

Paul

A "mapset" will contain 8 maps, as this maps well to hardware, visual processing, and maximum perception of diverse data representation across different panels of the same map view. The user can change on the fly to view one, some, or all maps within the mapset.
A "Multimap" screen (possibly to be renamed) allows the user to create arbitrary 2D templates/arrangements of maps, with a "view" mode contemplated, to which 2D vector graphics such as text, PNGs, and scrolling marquee bars could be added.

MeteoLatvia

This looks amazing! If it looks so good at that early stage, how good will it look when finished? 😃 You are blowing me away with every screenshot post.

eliteo

That looks absolutely insane. Very impressive! I’m really loving where things are going for WSV3 Tactical. This is practically studio-quality, and I honestly think everyone, from smaller stations with smaller budgets, to online streamers, chasers, the casual weather hobbyist, etc. will all flock to this product once it’s fully released. Amazing job Paul!!

coolmom52364

I like WSV3 with all of the features it has now. It gives you all the tools just like your local meterologist has access to. I look forward to having WSV3 just like it is now except it would be nice to being able to have a linux version that will run natively on any linux distro but offers all of the data and features that you can access now on the windows version. Also a feature I would like to see in future versions would be being able to zoom down to street level and show street names just like your local meterologist can do on tv. This would be useful during severe weather situations where you see Future plans for WSV3 is promising. WSV3 is the only program that I need to have a native linux version for so I can dump Windows altogether for good. Other than that the future of this program is promising for those of us looking to dump windows permanently.

jcline

I am incredibly excited about this. It's going to be such a massive upgrade from the current version of WSV3.

Suburbazine

This looks stunning to say the least. This is stuff that used to only be available to the very fanciest of TV stations... and then it was a matter of whether or not the meteorologist would show it on TV.

TheDopplerKid

I have been offline for a while. Has 'plugin' support been talked about? If not, what language would you support? From my ongoing research into Delphi apps, it appears you can pear the C family of languages with it.

Paul

TheDopplerKid I can dynamically link with any 64-bit Win32 DLLs compiled with any language. I think better than a traditional plug-in system will be the development of a new optimized general content format, better than Placefiles, allowing for arbitrary raster/vector/text ingest through the web system. It would be binary based and likely use Sqlite as an efficient container format with unbeatable language support and existing documentation. These are post-initial-release considerations as I've taken the time from now through Decemeber 2025 to optimize the core product value offering as much as possible, but not too early to hear ideas.