I think Daniel has WAY too much free time on his hands, as seen with his latest WorldWind video.  Sharks in Space!

Four years we have been wanting to get this done.  We now have someone that is putting the time into localization and has developed a PlugIn for WorldWind .net and has already made a lot of progress.

Here is the PlugIn as it is now.  If anyone wants to help out with language conversions, see the forum post for more information.

Daniel has a post up on his blog about the downloads of WW Alpha 1.4.1, which are over 13616 now.

Been saving up several WorldWind related posts and have enough now to post a round-up of them.

WorldWind forum member Pangloss has not been sitting around doing nothing, he has several WW.net add-ons of data that are worth taking a look at.

First up is a Lunar Gravity add-on.  This is data that was measured by Japan’s Kaguya mission.

Next up is his Sea-Breeze add-on for WW.net, this add-on pack includes several different Ocean related add-ons groups: Geology and Geophysics, Oceanography, Meteorology and Climate Change.  There are over 600 layers in this add-on pack, so there is something for every aspect of the ocean you can think of.

Another WorldWind forum member, antdavison, has a 3dsmax/maxscript for conversion of photoreal ms-flightSim textures to WorldWind  data.pyramid format.

Also, forum member Omega has been having way too much fun is seems with the WWJava SDK.  His latest coding has a sun shader running on the WWJava globe.

The code makes use of the GLSL shaders and shows a reflection of the sun off the ocean using basic specular lighting calculations. It also shows the NASA night lights layer on the side of the earth with no sun.

In the last several days, there have been a couple of WorldWind related job postings.

First up is a 3 month contract job.

This person will be developing the software of the NASA World Wind Cross-Platform SDK and infrastructure.
- Design and implement 3D geographic visualization software.
- Implements web services.
- Designs databases. Creates Technical Documentation.
- Implements build and release procedures.
- Test and corrects software.
- Measures and optimizes performance.
- Develops and researches visualizations algorithms
- Work collaboratively with members of the open-source community to assist usage, evaluate request and contributions, and define requirements.

Check the forum post for details.

We did some stats today on visitors hitting the WorldWind zoomit! layer.  So that shows up the number of WorldWind users and that number is at 14.9 million.  That is active users, not downloads (Downloads is larger).

I don’t have any stats on WWJava users though.