Hi Dan-
When you use the visible range or the color table you'll need to make
sure that the image is "on top". Use the View->Bring To Front menu
option of the theta-e display control.
Are you using a 2D or 3D display?
For the projection problem, do you have Fast Rendering turned on or off?
Do you get different results depending on that setting?
Don
Dan Grey wrote:
Hi Tom,
NB forgot to mention that I'm using v2.4.
The original method I was trying was selecting the "visible range"
check box beneath the colour table button on the Display tab of the
Dashboard, which un-greys-out the "Change" button next to it, and
using that button to change the visible range. No joy.
I tried your method but it fails in the same way as my original method
-- see attached pic.
Your example picture is exactly what I'm trying to achieve so I'm at a
loss as to why it's not working for me!
I do wonder if this problem is in some way tied to the sat pic I'm
using, which is a MSG image. It only displays if I use the "MSGT"
projection -- switching to a different projection, such as the
predefined Europe projection for a more top-down view, causes the
satellite picture to disappear (all the other displays remain).
To test that I recreated something similar to your example image
(using 2.5 deg data to save time, hence the blockiness!). Using my
original "visible range" method has the desired result (see second
attachment). I also tried your method, which also worked.
(BTW note the odd bug in the second image with the display list text
-- it's hidden behind the satpic. This again seems related to the
projection: I was using the predefined US CONUS projection. The
display list appeared normally using "World" or "North Pole".)
Dan
On 4/20/08, Tom Whittaker <whittaker@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Dan --
I assume from your description that you tried to do a "change range"
on the theta-e plot. In my example, the original range was
250-420K.....so perhaps you just tried changing the range to something
like 310-420K or something?
The behaviour of this is that it then treats all values from 250-309
as if there were equal to 310, for the purpose of mapping from the
data to the color table.
The way I know of to accomplish this is to edit the color table, click
on the "Transparency" radio button, set the transparency to 100%, and
then grab the slider above the "250" and drag it to the right (you
should see black/white checkboard pattern). You will then get
something like the attached (I hope) image.
Hope that helps...
tom
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Dan Grey <dangrey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've got a sat pic (from a server under "Images") on the surface, and
> a colour-shaded plot of theta-e at 850 hPa from the GFS above. I
> restrict the visible range of the theta-e to a value so only areas
> above a certain value are shown (to illustrate a plume event). However
> areas with theta-e below my range appear black, rather than showing
> through the sat pic below.
>
> Am I missing something simple, is this is intended behaviour, or is it a
bug?
>
>
> Dan
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