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Decoded Weather ".WX" file

Has anyone managed to decode the FSX .wx file format.

I am looking for a way to "programmatically" generate / edit .WX files, which would lead to a way to display them on some sort of Weather Radar Guage.

Also, are there any Weather Radar Guages that display FSX weather ( as opposed to Active Sky weather) ?

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I think reading the .WX file is not a good idea for a weather radar because you will only have the weather information when the .WX file was saved and this can change during the flight.
WHy don't you use FSUIPC (or SimConnect?) to read weather information in real time?
I think this is the way some weather radar work. I think the radar instegrated in the PSS777 or in some FeelThere aircrafts works like this. It provides an information that is "globally accurate" but does not really show the cloud masses where they are. Sometimes you see clouds on the radar and nothing through the window, and conversely.

As far as I know, the only weather radar that REALLY works at this time by reading information within the weather DLL is the radar from RealityXP. No doubt, it is the best.

If you know how to read the weather information, you're lucky :)

Eric
 
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eric_marciano said:
I think reading the .WX file is not a good idea for a weather radar because you will only have the weather information when the .WX file was saved and this can change during the flight.
WHy don't you use FSUIPC (or SimConnect?) to read weather information in real time?
I think this is the way some weather radar work. I think the radar instegrated in the PSS777 or in some FeelThere aircrafts works like this. It provides an information that is "globally accurate" but does not really show the cloud masses where they are. Sometimes you see clouds on the radar and nothing through the window, and conversely.

As far as I know, the only weather radar that REALLY works at this time by reading information within the weather DLL is the radar from RealityXP. No doubt, it is the best.

If you know how to read the weather information, you're lucky :)

Eric
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Well, what I want to do is NOT really a Weather Radar as such.

If you save a flight, you get the current weather in a .wx file.
If you LOAD a flight, it loads the weather from the associated .wx file.

What I would like to do is to be able to make CUSTOM weather patterns, PROGRAMATICALLY, by reading those .wx files, and making my own modified .wx file.

It would be helpful, when doing this to display the .wx file, in the form of a weather map... rather than masses of Data - (Metars etc )

Ideally, a weather Graphical interface, where one could literally PAINT weather ( rain, clouds, winds etc, with a brush, onto a map, and save the result as a .wx file)

Hey -- I can dream... plenty of time to figure it out .. I do not see the FSX .wx file format changing for MANY years :(

Geoff_D

Then again... maybe too much work... alternative to to watch REAL weather, and over time, build up a Library of .wx files, depicting various Past Real work weather conditions.
 
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