Forgive me if the answer for this is located elsewhere, but I browsed the current threads in this forum and did not find any that had the answer I was looking for.

I would like to know if its possible to add the radar to be visible and functional in the VC of any cockpit, most specifically, the another company MD-11. I found the thread that showed how to do it with the CS C-130 which I'm really enjoying, but would like to know if I can achieve the same thing with another aircraft.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

- Jordan Vera

It is very hard to add the CS Weather Radar to display in the VC. The gauge mapping is done in the modeling process where the gauges are applied to a texture. That texture is "assigned" a location in the VC.

In most cases you will need to replace a gauge to have the weather radar show. I would recommend FS Panel Studio if you want to try. You will also be limited to the maximum size of the original gauge or some of it will not be displayed.

Mark

It is highly unlikely that another developer will make a place in their VC to allow you to add the CS Weather Radar to the VC.

It is hard to explain how the gauges are added in the VC if you don't have any knowledge of making add-on aircraft for FS.
I have noticed that it has become quite common to model the gauges as a part of the VC, so they are "built in". This makes it impossible to add it to the VC.

I think you will have to accept that it will be a 2D gauge for all but Captain Sim aircraft.

Mark

In order to work in VC the CS WX Radar has to be integrated into the VC code.
List of CS WX Radar VC integrated addons:
- 727 Captain
- 767 Captain
- 757 Captain

fto wrote on Jul 21^st, 2010 at 1:17pm:

Hi Fabio.

If you bought the CS 727 from here (download version), you can Check-in to your Profile and get new links to download the latest version (2.4) which has the CS Weather Radar integrated into it.

Captain Sim 2 wrote on Feb 25^th, 2010 at 7:51am:
I only saw this in v2.3 but that could be because I may not have purchased the CS WxR until around the time of the release of the 727 v2.3. �So I'm not sure if it can be seen in v2.2. To find out if it is, make sure the CS WxR is installed then turn the WxR in the VC ON, give it about a minute and see if it displays anything.

If you have the Just Flight boxed 727 Captain, you will need to find out if there is an update to v2.3 or 2.4 from their web site.

Hope this helps

Mark

Hi Fabio.

I understand your reasoning on not upgrading, which is fair enough. I have had the 727 since v2.2 and they have all (v2.2, v2.3 & v2.4) worked fine for me. Unfortunately, this is not the case for everyone. I guess I have to say I'm lucky because all my Captain Sim products work extremely well (dare I say perfectly?) for me.

Mark

Tim Capps wrote on Jul 21^st, 2010 at 9:31pm:
Hi Tim.

It's nice that they have done that and would be great if others followed. Do they also recommend getting the CS WxR? Or are they just being nice?

Mark

hi tim where in the manual is the cut and paste data for the weather data to go in to the vc thanks mark

Check out the manual zip file.  There is a folder in there.  It is not in the regular manual.

Hi Harry.

I did it like this...

First. I added the CS Weather Radar using the WXR Editor.

Second. I opened the panel.cfg (FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes\other_JS4100\panel) file with windows notepad and edited the following:

[VCockpit02]
size_mm=1024,1024
pixel_size=1024,1024
texture=$GaugeTwo
background_color=0,0,0

gauge00=j41!other_j41_rmu_1, � �0, � 0, 393, 500
gauge01=j41!other_j41_rmu_2, �393, � 0, 393, 500
gauge02=OTHER_BAe_JS4100_3!GNSXLS, �1, 508, 512, 408
gauge03=j41!other_j41_alt_pic, 896,0,128,508
//gauge04=rxpWX500!RDR, �532, 528, 472, 331 � � � � � � Commented out this line - in other words I added the // to the beginning of the line
gauge04=WXR!wr_display, �532, 528, 472, 331 � � � � � �� �Added this line to replace the commented out line above
gauge05=j41!other_j41fms_pu_open, 919,458,53,35

Open the WXR 2D panel, turn it on and the WXR displays in the VC. You need to control it with the 2D WXR panel.
I can get the controls to display in the VC, but the entire gauge show up in the small black screen if I do do it. If I work it out, I'll reply in here how to do it.

Hope this helps.

Mark

EDIT: Here are some images of how it looks.

The 1st image show how it currently looks using te described method.


This 2nd image shows how it looked trying to add the entire WXR in the VC.