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apps:envi4met_changesnutshell [2015/08/07 22:35] – [License Issues] enviadminapps:envi4met_changesnutshell [2017/11/10 09:25] – external edit 127.0.0.1
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-====== Moving on from V3.1 ======+====== Release Notes ======
  
-The development of ENVI-met V4 took about 5 years, which gives you an impression on how much has been changed. Moreover, the very deep roots of ENVI-met are at the beginning of the 1990ies with the shadow casting software SHADOW and in 1996 with the first 1D version ENVI-met-1. Needlessly to say, that not only the computing possibilities have changed a lot, but also a the way programs are coded and data is handled have experience some fundamental changes. So, ENVI-met V4 is not only a new version with new features, it also got updated in almost all aspects of computer programming deep in its roots.+===== Moving on from V3.1 =====
  
-The majority of changes did not really effect the models core, but mainly all the infrastructure around it. While a new model feature is (most of the times) not that hard to implement as far as the algorithms are concerned, it is a huge amount of work to introduce it in any step of the modell processing from creating the input file, over databases up to the visualization of the new feature. +The development of ENVI-met V4 took about 8 years, which gives you an impression on how much has been changed. Moreover, the very deep roots of ENVI-met are at the beginning of the 1990ies with the shadow casting software SHADOW and in 1996 with the first 1D version ENVI-met-1. Needlessly to say, that not only the computing possibilities have changed a lot, but also a the way programs are coded and data is handled have experience some fundamental changes. So, ENVI-met V4 is not only a new version with new features, it also got updated in almost all aspects of computer programming deep in its roots.
  
-So, the model core of V4 is more or less fixed since 2012, the last 2 years were and probably the next year will be required to handle all the circumstances around the naked model core and to figure out all of the combinations one can think of (and we still have a list of things not implemented in the recent Beta).  
  
 ENVI-met is used in over 130 countries, from Europe to the tropics down to Australia and back up to Russia. Can you image how many never-though-of constellations of model analysis appear in all this different zones of the world? It is our aim to make ENVI-met available to any user from wherever she or he comes and whatever issue (within the scope of ENVI-met) is addressed. And, still let it run on a standard computer from your local hardware dealer. For us, that makes the heart of an holistic model such as ENVI-met and the thrill to make it actually happen keeps us running. ENVI-met is used in over 130 countries, from Europe to the tropics down to Australia and back up to Russia. Can you image how many never-though-of constellations of model analysis appear in all this different zones of the world? It is our aim to make ENVI-met available to any user from wherever she or he comes and whatever issue (within the scope of ENVI-met) is addressed. And, still let it run on a standard computer from your local hardware dealer. For us, that makes the heart of an holistic model such as ENVI-met and the thrill to make it actually happen keeps us running.
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 As the documentation system is not ready yet, in the next sections you will find some short comments on different aspect of moving from V3.1 to V4. As the documentation system is not ready yet, in the next sections you will find some short comments on different aspect of moving from V3.1 to V4.
  
-===== License Issues ===== 
  
-With Version V4 (and with the creation of this website), ENVI-met has moved to the **Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA** 3.0 [[files:license|Read more...]] License. This license model gives a wide range of freedome concerning the usage and re-usage of all ENVI-met materials. However, commercial use of ENVI-met is no longer allowed. There is **no commercial license of ENVI-met** to be bought. If you require ENVI-met analysis in your commercial project, please conatct us for a quote of service.+===== General Software Issues and Pending items (Version V4.0 Summer16) ===== 
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 +  * **When opening an old .IN file in SPACES, check if ALL settings, especially Latitude and Longitude of location are converted properly. There are different .IN files out there and it is not possible to identify which one is which.** 
 +  * .SIM files are going to be re-worked 
 +  * Using a DEM is still experimental and can lead to problems depending on the complexity of the model domain
  
  
-===== General Software Issues ===== 
  
 ==== Using V3.1 Area Input files  ==== ==== Using V3.1 Area Input files  ====