Hello,Like many of my peer FS enthousiasts I am constantly on the look out for improvements of the FS world (FS9 in my case). That's why I already have add-ons like Active Sky and Ground Environment Pro installed. FS Elemental seemed to belong to that category and the price of about 10 Euro's did not stop me from checking. The result (in my opinion): Their clouds are absolutely impressive. However, a number of other features I can easily do without, like the sudden blue colouring of my Airbus panel. What I found really annoying is the change of the water colour, which turned into a deep blue, almost purple, probably suitable for the Australian environment, but certainly not for Europe. I tried to exchange the water textures with the excellent textures of Peter Wilding (FSWater), dating back as far as 2004, but that did'nt help. I do not understand why the developers did not provide a simple user interface in which we are offered a choice as to which features should be turned on or off.Regards,Ren

Hello Rene,Generally speaking, water colors of the FS Elemental are excelent, but those environmental textures, make them look bit purple. You can try this "trick", like me. First download file named "Water Environment Reflection & Color Maps". Don't pay attention on "for FSX ONLY" they work perfect in FS9.Download here:http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/downloads.htmlThan simply put that textures instead of FS Elemental one, and than you will have a perfect water, in perfect environment colors.Hope this help.

Hello Rene,Generally speaking, water colors of the FS Elemental are excelent, but those environmental textures, make them look bit purple. You can try this "trick", like me. First download file named "Water Environment Reflection & Color Maps". Don't pay attention on "for FSX ONLY" they work perfect in FS9.Download here:http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/downloads.htmlThan simply put that textures instead of FS Elemental one, and than you will have a perfect water, in perfect environment colors.Hope this help.

The clouds are amazing...unfortunately, I took a major fps hit. I was locked at 25 fps before install, but after Fs Elemental I was down to 8-10fps. So back to Flight Environment for me!!

Yeah, the clouds are really amazing.

Yeah, the clouds are really amazing.

The second image... Mine just do NOT look like that. They're all like the first screeny. I'm using Active Sky Advanced, but can't get the billowy looking clouds. What gives?! My clouds seem too wispy and wind blown.

Dallyborr, thank you very much for your advice, I will certainly try this trick.Regards,Ren

The second image... Mine just do NOT look like that. They're all like the first screeny. I'm using Active Sky Advanced, but can't get the billowy looking clouds. What gives?! My clouds seem too wispy and wind blown.

I've tryed ASA too, but i also get some strange looking weather with it. So i'm back to my good old AS 6.5 version, and voila:

The cloud files are all 5 megabytes each as opposed to a few hundred kilobytes for other types of clouds which probably accounts for the FPS hit, I love them too so I just kept the clouds files for Cumulus installed and used other smaller files for the other types of clouds and it looks pretty nice without the severe FPS hit.

The cloud files are all 5 megabytes each as opposed to a few hundred kilobytes for other types of clouds which probably accounts for the FPS hit, I love them too so I just kept the clouds files for Cumulus installed and used other smaller files for the other types of clouds and it looks pretty nice without the severe FPS hit.

I use FSElemental for clouds only--FSExcel for runway/taxiway textures--and Real Environment for sky and water color--the results are superb. I keep Flight Environment for sunset/sunrise/and night textures. That in combination with UT/FSGenesis and Ground Environment Pro exceeds IMO the results I'm seeing in FSX with UTX/GEX/FEX.R.Perry

The cloud files are all 5 megabytes each as opposed to a few hundred kilobytes for other types of clouds which probably accounts for the FPS hit, I love them too so I just kept the clouds files for Cumulus installed and used other smaller files for the other types of clouds and it looks pretty nice without the severe FPS hit.

I batch converted the clouds and they all seem to go to 1Mb, ie 80% reduction in size. Some improvement in FPS gained. Otherwise, FS elemental great.Anyone know what makes their latest "Intense" pack worth getting?

I use FSElemental for clouds only--FSExcel for runway/taxiway textures--and Real Environment for sky and water color--the results are superb. I keep Flight Environment for sunset/sunrise/and night textures. That in combination with UT/FSGenesis and Ground Environment Pro exceeds IMO the results I'm seeing in FSX with UTX/GEX/FEX.R.Perry

Please post some screenshots, I would love to see the combines end result of all of those add-ons.

Please post some screenshots, I would love to see the combines end result of all of those add-ons.

I use all those too. But just without FSGenesis. Result is this: