Smooth satellite animation option
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@Suty Can you bring back the option to turn off smooth satellite animation?
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@jlawrance Hi there, unfortunately, it is not planned now.
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@Suty Serious question - If Windy is committed to mandatory use of satellite animation, can it possibly be changed so that the animation treats the cloud layer and not the map background? Even better if cloud layers could be separated. With the current version ground features (lakes, vegetation etc) are all being dragged and distorted by the cloud animation, with some very strange effects.
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@casualuser Hi there, you don't have to use the satellite layer and you can any other layers. Or what exactly do you mean?
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@Suty If I want to see the clouds, I have to use the satellite layer?
Maybe I'm interpreting satellite view wrongly and there isn't a cloud layer and a separate background earth layer, and it's just a single satellite photo. No wonder it gets so badly mangled by the animation process.
I have found a solution to bypass the smooth animation of the satellite layer though. On the desktop, if I step through the satellite time series with the left and right keyboard buttons it works like the old 'not smoothed' satellite view :-)
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@Suty How does it work under the hood? Isn´t it just bypassing a procedure when switched off?
Is it streamed smooth/blurry or calculated on local PC? It´s always fine edged when paused.
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Here I always have a mix of sharp and mostly blurry images, ~1-3fps.
This "smoothening" fades away the HDR-effect, details like the overshooting top get out of focus. -
I almost always turned off the "smooth" satellite animation. As an engineer, I want PURE DATA - not someone's cute algorithm to make people feel good. connectionsunlimited
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@nurez I don´t feel good with that. It feels straining for the eyes, because they search the focus in that Euklidic abstraction like in the 3D world.
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It is really stupid to take away the option to turn off the smoothing. I bought the premium subscription mainly to view the satellite images, but with the smoothing it is unusable for storm chasing purposes. If bringing back that option is not planned I will have cancel my subscription and look for another satellite viewer.
