HWtropical 3.0 Final is released!
You can see the stock plugin (with the optional
topographical maps) online via our
demo
Download from the Plugins area:
HWTropical 3.0 Final
Major Changes in the final release
- A couple template corrections
- Finallized and added the Wind field Forecast maps
- removed some excess debug code to prerpare for final release
- corrected bug that was preventing the textual wind probabilities
Documentation
HTML
PDF
Requirements:
HW3Plugin API 1.5.4
HW3image 1.5.2
Note: Unlike HWtropical 2.0, this new version does not require any specific installation order as all the files have been properly split into the proper plugins.
Support
For the majority of servers the plugin should run without issue, but this is still a beta plugin and is the the most complex and resource intensive plugin we offer.
If you need support for this free plugin, it is provided via our support forums at
http://support.hamweather.com
Installation & Customization Services
We provide installation services for HW3 and all of the HAMweather, LLC authored Plugins.
We offer a wide range of customization services, including;
- Custom Designs (see our custom usage at
http://tropics.hamweather.net )
- Custom/New features and capabilities
- Custom base maps, icons and more
Feel free to use our
Request Form for additional information or email
sales@hamweather.com
Topographical Base Maps
The Plugin comes with the stock flat brown base maps. We offer the topographical maps as a separate download:
HWTropical Topographical Map Set A
Note that the topographical map set is a 20 meg download, and that on some shared servers may cause your HW3tropical to fail when plotting maps because of higher memory usage.
Major Enhancements In Version 3
Changes in RC2
- A couple template corrections
- Fix for a bug in TD 15 plotting the forecast as orgami
- removed some excess debug code to prerpare for final release
Some of the new features since Beta 5
- New topographical base map support
- New Image Map support that allows you to provide user interactivity with the maps
- Improved forecast map plotting, with many new options (see doc for INI options)
- Ability to Plot System Models (Data hosted to by HAMweather, LLC free of charge to HWTropical Users)
- Wind probability contours (HW branded unless user is subscribed to the HWcontours Expanded Specialty Bundle). (See Things to do for upcoming abilities)
- Ability to plot Invests current locations, tracks and forecast models. (Data hosted to by HAMweather, LLC free of charge to HWTropical Users)
- Improved windfield and high seas plots (Tear drop issue corrected)
- Improved zooming and autocropping
- New Storm symbols for map plotting.
- Several template changes including CSS support and other enhancements
