Maybe its a better solution to let just the airspace boundaries all the time visible...


Chris

If what we've had recently isn't heavy rainfall, I dread to think what is!!
Joking aside, the Poland screenshot is helpful ..... it's a bit like when we had to get used to the earth not being green on the BBC weather forecast, it looked wrong for a while, but eventually you get used to it, and it's better.
Back to the question on transparency - I wouldn't make it any more transparent than it is - small clusters of light rain are already quite subtle.

There's some heavy stuff in Poland this morning, for example.

We prototyped red/yellow colouring for "normal" rain. It didn't look good at all. Developing this feature we took a good look at all our competition and their strengths and weaknesses, and ours really is the best, given the extensive scope of the data we have managed to source.

Really strong rainfall in SkyDemon does actually have a much darker blue, then red, then magenta colour. You just haven't seen any yet, I guess.

I agree with rikur suggestions. The current color is not so intuitive. It could be better to adopt yellow / red colors.

Massimo Mangia

I-PPL

mixed views on this - I really like the feature, and I've used it for real now
personally for my flying, I don't have an issue with the transparency - I'm using this as a quick check toggle on/off - and I don't intend to take the T67M or the warrior through any significant rainfall.
however, the problem I'm having is convincing my brain that it is rain and not clouds - every rainfall radar I've ever looked at has been green/yellow/red or blue/yellow/red for different intensity of rainfall - and my brain just wants to believe that these are clouds not rain.
I also wonder if the current shading could be a bit misleading in the event of scattered thunderstorms.  On a conventional rainfall radar you see a fairly clear scattering of yellow blobs with red cores - but given a series of cloud like blobs might look less dramatic.
If you were using a blue/yellow/red scale it gives more flexibility for transparency - see mock-up.

We could increase the transparency, but then you'd lose some clarity of the rainfall picture itself, and (slightly) increase the risk of someone judging some rainfall to be less serious than it is.
Under what situation is the map so hideously covered with rainfall but you still want to see what's underneath? Is it for planning your flight? If so, we envisaged people would simply turn the layer off. It wasn't designed to be on all the time, really. You can also temporarily "zoom through the clouds" to see the map underneath; they disappear once you zoom beyond 500k scale. That threshold could be changed too.

The weather features are now much easier to discover being grouped together under the Weather menu. Animation is integrated well, too. What I have a slight problem with is how rainfall radar data obliterates the chart. In case of widespread rainfall you have no way of knowing what's underneath it because the map is simply gone. We should try and come up with a solution which still allows the user to see the underlying map.

Would transpareny do it? Or a form of shading?

-- Chris.

I find but already well resolved that no more current data the pink overlay appears.

Not the last data connection specifically, that wouldn't be helpful. You can open the Weather tab to see where the rainfall being displayed came from and at what time.