Hello pilots.I looked thru the forum and cant say that i found anything.My question is: have somone done a weather radar built in a panel? I wuld like to try to build CS weather radar in my PMDG MD11 paned where it is in the same display as my route, like the CS 757 have. And with the WR buttons functional (a little note says "INOP"). Captain sim WR clearly says that the WR can be used with any aircraft,but to my knollege they mean in a seperate (pop-up) panel. Maybe this is a epic task to get into, but i just wondering. Any toturial or something? Never made a aircraft or a panel, but i will try if possible.Anyone experience designers have idea?

No? Anyone please?

No? Anyone please?

I've added the CS weather radar to a couple of my addon aircraft. It is done quiteeasily by simply creating a new window in the panel.cfg file.Here are the pertinent entries in my panel.cfg file for the A2A B-377.First, declare the new window in the "Window Titles" section.

[Window Titles]Window00=Main Panel...Window14=CS Weather Radar

Then add the Wx Radar gauge in the new window:

//------Captain Sim weather radar ---------[Window14]size_mm=525,386window_size=0.44position=2background_color=1,1,1visible=0ident=11223zorder=1gauge00=WXR!wr_display, 81,32,364,279gauge01=Captain_Sim.r001.P04!P04_radar, 0,0,525,386

The files WXR.dll and Captain_Sim.r001.P04.cab should be inyour main gauges folder.You can, at this point, select the CS Wx radar window using the menu bar entry, or you could go a step further and createan icon (small xml gauge and bmp file ) to give you abutton to push to open/close the window.

<Gauge Name="CS Wx Radar Icon" Version="1.0"> <Image Name="Icon_CS_Weather.bmp" ImageSizes="19,19"/> <Mouse> <Tooltip>Toggle Weather Radar Window</Tooltip> <Cursor Type="Hand"/> <Click>11223 (>K:PANEL_ID_TOGGLE)</Click> </Mouse></Gauge>

Note that the parameter, 11223, is the value of the "ident=" field ofthe window containing the CS Wx gauge.Copy the above code and save it as "CS_Wx_Rdr_Icon.xml.The icon BMP is simply a small 19 x 19 file that you can create witha paint program. JYou can use one of the standard FSX icon bmp's asa 'canvas' and just modify it and rename it. Save the two files ina folder in either the aircrafts panel folder or your gauge folder.Name the folder anything you wish, such as "my_icons".You then just add a line to one of the other panel.cfg windows toplace the icon on the panel or on another pop-up 2D window.The code would be:Gaugexx=my_icons!CS_Wx_Rdr_Icon, X,Y, x, yxx = the next gauge number in the window you are adding the icon to.X,Y = the window horizontal and vertical offsets for the upper left cornet of the iconx,y = the icon size ( 19,19 )That's all there is to it! :) Paul

Cool, i will give this a try. Can i use this to build in the WR inside the navigation display of the MD11?? As a background behind the route??

Cool, i will give this a try. Can i use this to build in the WR inside the navigation display of the MD11?? As a background behind the route??

I don't own the MD-11 but just off the top of my head I would suspect that this would not be possible.You might be able to change that display to toggle/alternate between the two but that would assume that the nav display is an xml gauge. Paul

Ok, thanks for replying :(