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Weather: Request Cloud State

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Has anyone successfully used the "SimConnect_WeatherRequestCloudState" API and corresponding response "SIMCONNECT_RECV_ID_CLOUD_STATE"?

I have gotten packets returned from FSX but they don't seem to be in the format I would expect from reading the SDK. Specifically:

1. Each byte of the returned array is either all 0x00 or 0xFF. There is no gradient for cloud intensities.
2. The byte array returned doesn't seem to correlate to the out-the-window scene.

I have tried all sorts of different parameters for the request call, many different types of cloud settings as well as flying around through the clouds. I must be doing something wrong.

Thanks in advance.

- Kevin
 
Hello friends.

I tried everything to get the power status of the cloud around the aircraft to create a StormScope, but so far without success.
Below is the code, everything works normally step around the range and altitude of the aircraft of the same, but the array of 64x64 rgbData always been zero. I do not know what else to do. Any hint or help will be very grateful. My little one StormScope project is stopped because of it. After all have any other way to get the status of the clouds by FSUIPC or other library?
I need help from friends.

//----------------------------------------------------------

case SIMCONNECT_RECV_ID_CLOUD_STATE:
{
SIMCONNECT_RECV_CLOUD_STATE* pWxData = (SIMCONNECT_RECV_CLOUD_STATE*) pData;

printf("%d\n", pWxData->dwArraySize); // OK. Returns 4096 = 64x64

for (int x=0; x < pWxData->dwArraySize; x++ )
{
if ( pWxData->rgbData[x] != 0 )
{
printf("pos:%d, val:%d :]\n", x, pWxData->rgbData[x]);
}
}
break;
}
 
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