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FS Active Fires

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mthrift

Charter Member
Hello all,

Some of you may be aware of the utility program called FS Active Fires. Once running and connected via SimConnect, the program places fire effects in FSX scenery with locations matching those from the appropriate NASA/Gov websites.

Here's the program source: https://github.com/ollyau/FSActiveFires/releases
Here's the data source: https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/active_fire/

It had been some time since I had last used it, but upon loading recently, I received an error that the data cannot be downloaded - the remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. After doing some digging, I see that others have experienced the same issue. It appears that the links to the online data have changed, and don't match the addresses in the application. There are even references issue to this at the following source site:

https://github.com/ollyau/FSActiveFires/pull/3

In fact, I believe the necessary changes to the source code are provided on these pages. However, though I can see how to modify the source code with the updated URL information, I have no idea how to "compile" the source files back into an executable file. It seems like it must be possible, but not being a programmer, I can't figure out how to do it.

Anyone else use this program and know how to make the updates and recompile into an executable?


Thanks much,
Michael
 
Bjoern,

Thanks a ton for your response. The part about Visual Studio Express was what I was missing. I'll give that a try.

I'll report back if (when? :encouragement:) I get it working.


Best,
Michael
 
If you havent already, check out Firefighter X you can download real fire data from VIIRS or MODIS and actually put the fires out with water or retardant drops.
 
mthrift said:
Bjoern,

Thanks a ton for your response. The part about Visual Studio Express was what I was missing. I'll give that a try.

I'll report back if (when? :encouragement:) I get it working.
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Good luck. Fortunately, Visual Studio is the reference IDE for Windows, so there's lots of information out there.
 
Thanks Tankerguy. I wasn't aware that it was able to DL real-time fire data. I'll check it out. Some of the pics I've seen of it (yours, I imagine?) make it look pretty impressive.


Michael
 
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