V1.4 Alpha and Scripting

[adamhill]

Two new cool things to check out for the adventuresome developer:

Chris new translucent layers in v1.4 Alpha:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nasa..._4_DDH_20050418

Mashi's Scripting Engine
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nasa..._SCRIPTCOMPILER

In 1.4 right click on a layer in Layer Manager and select Opacity to make it translucent. You need a modern graphics card with Vertex Shaders 1.0 to use it. I have verified it runs on somethig else than my dev box

Mashi's scripting engine is a simple CodeProvider compiler. So you write a plugin in C#, VB or JScript, implement the required interface from IScript and you are good to go. All Public objects and fields are free game.

Mashi has 4 examples in all 3 languages:
Clock - Simple date and time display. Show how to add a RenderableObject to the scene.
UDPReciever - Send Goto(lat, long) commands to WorldWind.
RangeFog - Add depth cued fog to the 3D views. Very cool.
TrailTracker - Make a path follow the camera.

Note that all the current engine does is let you add code to the running instance, there is no debugger other than VS.NET, but comple errors appear in the splash screen.

Have fun!

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Originally posted by adamhill@Apr 19 2005, 06:00 PM
Mashi's scripting engine is a simple CodeProvider compiler. So you write a plugin in C#, VB or JScript, implement the required interface from IScript and you are good to go. All Public objects and fields are free game.

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Yes! VB! Is that classic (VB6) or just .NET?

[bull]

Please note that the scripting feature is very powerful, so if you format your harddrive by mistake don't blame NASA.

[bull]

Heres an example of the coolness of mashis work on scripting in WW, a realtime ISS tracker!

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