Nice work Bryn!! :Applause:

Installed - working like a charm Bryn -  great work and thanks once again

Thanks for making this Bryn!  I just downloaded it and made a donation.  It will be a great placeholder, while my preferred airplane developers PMDG & Majestic work on integrating ASN into their weather radar.

 

I just took of from PHL and the radar clearly depicted the bad weather northwest of the area.

Thanks very much! And glad to hear that it is working so well for people.

 

I'll probably have another update in the next couple of days, but that will be mostly housekeeping on the code, which is pretty messy right now.

 

If anyone has any suggestions for additional features, or if you've found a bug, let me know!

 

One thing I'm thinking of adding is a vertical line that can be moved left and right to give an indication of the offset required to get around weather.  

 

Bryn.

Wow this is fantastic! I just had a flight with it on the 777 and loving it. Just need some tweaking on the tune/tilt; if you run into anything code-wise or graphics, feel free to give me a shout.

 

Hi Hank, do you think it would be possible to integrate Bryn's weather radar with Jeehell's FMGS? 

 

Regards,

 

Ben

Hi Hank, do you think it would be possible to integrate Bryn's weather radar with Jeehell's FMGS? 

 

Regards,

 

Ben

 

Hi Ben, here's my idea for Bryn, which would solve everything before I start requesting an SDK from Jeehell:

 

What I am thinking is - since the Jeehell FMGS (cockpit builder software) does not have an SDK, before I request one from the developer, my idea is to add an option so the WXR displays a transparent background (instead of the black background) with only the weather radar returns and the range arcs visible. We can then overlay this in home cockpits / trainers / desktop displays so if it's on, we can still see the ND.

Hi Hank, yes that is a good idea -- if Bryn could develop a transparent background so we can overlay it over the ND of the airbus then we can get a weather radar with the nav-points. 

 

I think this is also how Project Magenta utilized the sxr_weather radar by place it on top of the ND in its avionics suite. 

 

Thanks again Bryn

Yep, I can do this. I'll give it a go over the next few days.

 

One problem is the colours have no transparency, so you wouldn't be able to see what's on the ND if there is a lot of wx, but I might be able to fix that too.

 

More coffee this weekend, I think. :-)

Sounds good and thank you so much for your hard work Bryn! This is definitely a must-have for weather alert and avoidance.

I think if this works out well with Jeehells FMGS, I'll have to purchase ASN (will run the trial first)  

 

Hank, will there be a way to link the range (NM) of the radar with the Jeehell FMGS EFIS range knob? Perhaps with FSUIPC offsets? 

 

Regards.

 

Thanks again Byrn and Hank for making this hobby ...so exciting! 

Nice gauge Bryn!  I have it working in some default planes but can't figure out how to get into the PMDG 737 NGX.  The panel is out of shift numbers.  Can you help?

In the PMDG planes, install the little popup gauge that is included in the pack. That should appear in the top left of the screen at all times, and clicking on that should open and close the radar panel.

 

I hope. :-)

I think if this works out well with Jeehells FMGS, I'll have to purchase ASN (will run the trial first)  

 

Hank, will there be a way to link the range (NM) of the radar with the Jeehell FMGS EFIS range knob? Perhaps with FSUIPC offsets? 

 

Regards.

 

Thanks again Byrn and Hank for making this hobby ...so exciting! 

 

What I can think of is a custom program for the EFIS and radio panel so the tune and gain will communicate with the + - buttons and also with the range knob. What I'll need to look into further is FSUIPC and simconnect.

 

Everything I do is for standalone computer-based trainers, so my experience with simconnect and FS gauges is very little. However, I'll do some research for this since I fly with the FMGS suite a lot as well and it would be nice if I can get it going.

 

- Hank

byrn

 

a couple of maybe features perhaps.

• 25 & 75% range tags on the vertical axis.
• range at 5 & 10nm.

& to add, the transparent background would be a big plus for me !!

 

thanks again for a great gauge.

 

 

What I can think of is a custom program for the EFIS and radio panel so the tune and gain will communicate with the + - buttons and also with the range knob. What I'll need to look into further is FSUIPC and simconnect.

 

i'm using fsuipc mouse macros to switch range / tilt / gain.

Tonight I had a go at making the gauge transparent.  Unfortunately it doesn't work - or at least, I couldn't find a way to make it work.

 

The radar image is constructed as a GDI+ bitmap.  I originally constructed this as an 8 bit per pixel bitmap, because that mapped nicely with the data from HiFi.  Tonight i turned this into a 32 bit bitmap, in the hope that I could adjust the alpha values and make the gauge semi-transparent where the colours were and fully-transparent where the black was.

 

Unfortunately, I could not work out a way to do the semi-transparency.  The alpha value of the pixel could take a value from 0 to 255, but if it was less than 125 it acted like a 0, and if it was greater than 125 it acted like a 255 (in other words, reverted to full transparency or full opacity).

 

I mucked around with the colour matrix as well, but that had the same effect.  All or nothing.

 

The problem with this is that if you are wanting to use the transparent gauge to overlay say an ND, it will be fine if there is no weather, or even a little bit of weather, but if the screen is full of weather (say severe storms) you won't be able to see anything on the ND, because the colours are not semi-transparent.

 

Anyway, I'm going to leave it there for now, unless anyone has a suggestion for how to make a GDI+ bitmap object semi-transparent.

 

I also have to add here that I mostly don't know what I'm talking about... this is all pretty new to me.  So assume I haven't tried the obvious.

 

Bryn.