Aeronautics: touchdown

1.1.3 — Weather Radar, more weather, gentler shake

New

• Weather Radar block. Place it on your aircraft or ship.
  • A small radar scope appears on the HUD (bottom-right) while it is on board.
  • Right-click opens the full scope: range 64–1024 blocks, modes PRECIP / WIND / TURB, heading-up or north-up, rotating sweep, range rings and wind arrows.
  • WEATHER AHEAD / STORM CELL AHEAD alerts when a strong echo is inside a forward cone, with distance and left / right.
  • Animated screen on the block.
  • Recipe: lightning rod, 2 iron ingots, observer, 2 copper ingots, redstone.
  • Shift + wrench picks it up, like the sensor.
• More weather: strong wind, gale, fog, sandstorm (desert and badlands), blizzard, icing, microburst and clear-air turbulence.
  • A microburst is a storm downdraft and triggers the WINDSHEAR callout.
  • Wind fronts and storm cells drift across the world. The radar and your instruments always agree, and storms can be flown around.
  • The weather strip shows wind and gusts in knots (WIND 32KT G45 HDW 12), plus VIS, !ICE and !MICROBURST flags.
  • Short banners appear when conditions get worse (STRONG WIND 31 KT, GALE, MICROBURST). They can be turned off.
• Vehicle shake. The vehicle you ride now shakes too: small per-tick motion on rideable entities, small jolts on ship decks, plus a slight FOV wobble.
• "Weather…" page in the AWS config (open it from the Aircraft Sensor right-click screen): toggles for all of the above, and sliders for turbulence, vehicle shake and wind strength.

Fixed / changed

• Camera shake no longer happens while walking on foot in rain or storms. It applies only in a vehicle, on a ship deck, or in flight with a sensor on board.
• Shake is much gentler: a smooth, low-frequency rumble with soft occasional bumps, instead of random jitter every tick. Angles stay around 1° at the worst.
• The weather strip shows only while you are in an aircraft context.
• Rain is now local, so you can fly out of a rain cell. Local precipitation drives turbulence.

Notes

• Sable and Aeronautics ships are physics bodies owned by the server, so a client add-on can't push the ship body itself. Ships get camera shake, FOV wobble and small jolts on the player. Ordinary rideable entities get real motion jitter.
• New config keys:
  • Weather section: weatherEvents, windStrength, weatherBanners, vehicleShakeEnabled, vehicleShakeStrength
  • Radar section: radarHudEnabled, radarRange, radarHudSize, radarAlerts