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Vintage-style weather radar screen

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Hi there,

I need a programmer who could make a "simple" weather radar screen in very basic vintage style, for an MSFS 2024 aircraft.

- I don't need any text or written data displayed on the screen.
- I don't need any range marker arcs or similar on the screen. The gauge display would be behind a glass surface with decal texture markings.
- Only need a radar sweep line, and some kind of basic precipitation representation.
- Also, with possibility of a mode that shows only nearby air traffic as simple dots on sweeps.

Some specifics about the color scheme:
- The Active Sweeping Beam: Radar sweep line (the trace) cutting across the glass is a sharp, electric neon-green.
- The Blips and Radar Echoes: When the neon-green beam hit a target it leaves behind a glowing fading trail decayed into a bright, warm orange-yellow or amber glow.

It would be a paid work.

Please leave a message if interested, or have any suggestion where to look.
Thanks.
 
Okay, so this what I have in mind, but of course I'm not a gauge programmer:

1: This is what I think I need to be coded, a basic monochrome representation of the clouds, rain or whatever the sim can output; with a sweeping line that either circulating in one direction on an axis which is at the bottom or moving back and forth across the display.
radar_1.jpg


2. This would be the decal texture that would be in front of the display, that I have already, with black bearing and distance scales and with semi-transparent yellowish tint.
radar_2.jpg


3. And this is how I imagine it would look like.
radar_3.jpg
 
Ok, thanks, that's better. However, as far as I know, SDK does not provide any data that reports on the weather conditions, so any live, accurate data would not be feasible.

Correction: There is a MapView API that does allow for creation of what you need, using NanoVG/WASM API
 
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