I am over central Texas today using real world weather where it should be totally overcast over the entire state. These "squares" in the cloud deck opened up while I slewed towards them. Once I got over them they totally disappeared in a square fashion revealing the ground below. I notice many times AS uses square cloud sections stitched together as a quilt. Sometimes this looks very bad but most of the time it is not noticeable. I do think we may be on to something here with this quilt technique because the dissapearing textures happened in the quilt square sections. I thought I fixed this but it is not fixed.

Got a perfect square of clear area with cumulonimbus surrounding it just now over Florida....beginning to think that I was hasty in uninstalling my other wx program :(

Hi, This is stratus what you are seeing, in Fsx there is one clouds formation like this, it will do this when it happens it is ugly, if you want to prevent this, you can set the stratus slider to 0 and use stratocumulus.

Chris, can you post a picture comparision as to what stratus and stratocumulus differences are? I am concerned that your suggestion will not allow for a more accurate respresentation of what is actually showing. Too many shortcuts here and there to prevent issues will eventually result is a not very realistic picture.

I agree, we should not have to use a stratocumulus substitute. To be honest though the manual is vague about stratocumulus. I would like to understand exactly what this does in varying weather conditions. BTW Chris, this is a problem, I am hoping you understand that we should not be flying with a 60 dollar product and have squares of clouds dissapear from under us. If that were the case I would just go back to using FSX weather generator. No one should have to live w/o stratus to make up for a problem with the software. It sounds like from Damian you guys are working on it which is great.Merry Christmas

Hi, This is stratus what you are seeing, in Fsx there is one clouds formation like this, it will do this when it happens it is ugly, if you want to prevent this, you can set the stratus slider to 0 and use stratocumulus.

Yes, it is the same for me. However, meanwhile I got more experience fiddling with AS2012 weather options and it seems that there are settings that even enable a very good cloud coverage that is close to OVC. The first days I never achieved this which might have the reason in the local weather having overcast layers in quite low altitudes. Meanwhile I have set in the Cloud Options the Stratus occurrence to Zero and checked "Prevent Cloud Redraws" and "Enable Stratocumulus Simulation". In the "General Options" tab I checked "Smooth Cloud Transitions" and the complete right most column.The weather even remained stable after taking off. While doing some experiments with the settings, I flow the PMDG NGX from Moscow to Vilnus (with other settings) and was very much disappointed because quite in the vicinity of the airport all clouds disappeared. Ok, there is no other reporting station around but it happened even if I had set a 80% probability of cloud generation in case of no data (meanwhile I reduced it to 50%).What I found out (this might be caused by the smoothing option) that it may help from time to time to reload AS2012 if the nearest weather station reports a situation that does not match to the outside views of the aircraft. By writing this I'm on a flight from Vilnus to Berlin by using a Pilatus PC-12 in order to have a longer flight time but still have a proper upper flight level of FL300. After more than 1.5 hrs flight I can say that I've had nearly or full OVC conditions for more than an hour, lost it some times while fiddling with AS' controls but got them back when reloading the add-on.Conclusion: My over-all mood has increased today to a more optimistic condition. However it seems, that the general problem of low cloud layers still remains and it would be great if HiFi could find a way to deal with it.