Importing NOAA Winds
The winds used in the VR and VORG games are generated from weather GRIBs downloaded from NOAA's Global Forecast System. This weather is then processed by the game servers and fed to the game clients on players machines at the regular 12-hourly weather updates.
VRTool is able to import these same weather GRIBS imported directly from the NOAA server, independently of the game. This has the obvious competitive benefit that VRTool has updated forecasts well in advance of the 12-hourly game feed, allowing players to make early course adjustments for the future weather.
This is using VRTool's built-in NOAA Import Module. The various configuration settings in the module ensure that the correct forecasts are extracted from the NOAA server, and that the subsequent processing is consistent with the game servers.
