WTB theme file

[rob345 3]

Hi,

 

I am currently working on a free new weather engine for FSX.

My intention is to depict the real weather (as reported in METAR) in a way that it also looks good and immersive. Thus, the reports are not taken for granted but enhanced, smoothed and modified according to a convincing visualization in FSX.

 

Currently I am using simconnect to create (SimConnect_WeatherCreateStation) and inject (SimConnect_WeatherSetObservation) the weather into the sim.

Although it works OK, you probably know what difficulties and unpleasent side-effects this technique have.

 

Thats why I want to try out the weather-theme based injection like it is done with the latest commercial weather engines.

 

The problem I have: I do not know how to read or even create the necessary *.WTB theme file...

 

Does somebody know how to do it?

I am aware of the FS2004 SDK to create these files, but I have nothing found about the actual *.WTB file format.

 

Many thanks!

 

Robert

 

P.S. Some examples of the already working wx engine:

 

[rob345 3]

Btw: I decided to release the working version with the 'old' injection method.

 

More infos incl. discussion forum at http://www.plane-pics.de/fsxwx/

 

Regards

Robert

[ChrisH123 0]

Hi Rob,

 

Did you ever have any luck with the WTB file format?  I need to decompile some WTB files back to XML if possible so I can get to the bottom of why my REX real time weather is sending my a2a C172 crazy above 1000ft in bad weather.

 

I know that a a wtb file is basically a renamed blg file and I have tried using the BLG2XML decompiler on one of the stock FSX wtb files but it didn't recognise that file format.

 

Does anyone know if a developer named 'Christian Stock' is still on the FSX dev scene? I know that some years ago he has some success with a weather theme decompiler and would like to get in touch with him.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Chris.