Hi,Have been looking already a few hours on overcast problems on the forum and saw about activesky and John Cillis, downloaded and tested, and using the one from Cillis that seems to work when you setup the weather completly.But once i am in real time weather then it looks like a mess, watch my included pic to see what i talk about, since i install those overcast files i have this, when i take them away again (i checked) everything is normal again, and by the way you see through it! you only don't when there is already 1 overcast at that place but then i get transparent on the sides and a big layer that is that famous 1 square following me the whole flight.Is this for everyone? my settings are at 100% for all weather settings like 3D and more. Asking this as i am only interested in real weather conditions.Thx for helping if you can or have advice to make the overcast work as it does look much better when it is setted up but real time is better :) and that square is a bit AWFULL...

I have yet to get true overcast as well. I know we are not alone in this. The clouds look great when you are flying close to the layers, but once you get up to higher altitudes, the clouds disappear or at least diminish significantly. Here in the northeast US, we get thick overcast skies that span for miles and miles. I have not been able to get this to work from real weather, and I have tried most of the payware and freeware weather generators. The best I have seen is maybe 90% cloud cover over a small area, but there is always still holes in it. I am finding that fs2004 works great for partly cloudy skies, but the lack of any true overcast is really starting to bother me.

Yep it is so much more tense when you don't see through, for me it doesn't have to be completly at 100% overcasted if there are not that many clouds 30 miles sight away it is ok but at least the place where you make your descend and not seeing through.Sometimes i get lucky that in real time weather is so big overcasted with other then cirrus that it makes it interesting but not enough...I live in belgium at the coast (EBOS Ostend) just the other side of the UK and believe me here is rains like 200 days a year :) so it's mostly always overcasted and no way you see through... but when i fly it's always the same story at about 2000-3000 feet when i am already nicely alligned to land i go down to get less visibility as a pop. Why doesn't MS fix this! it's probably one of the best games i saw in a long time but this quiet ruins the sensational weather and graphics of the game making it lose it's main interest, I would rather have less well made cumulus clouds but a realistic deck when overcast...

My patch does not work with real weather or any real weather add-on. Why? Because those modules were written prior to my patch, and don't use or "know of" my method to simulate overcast. There's also a tradeoff with my method, which is evident when real weather tries to simulate overcast. Real weather tries to do this by decreasing the vis. limit in the visibility layer. Problem is the cirrus overcast textures which I use for my "patch" are also used by MSFS to display vis. layers from above, so a checkerboard pattern can occur.In a nutshell, my patch is only acceptable for enthusiasts who want to practice zero-vis approaches, but falls short for those who like flying with real weather. If you use real weather, you are better off restoring the original cirrus overcast bitmaps you should have backed up prior to installation of my package...Regards,John

Thanks John for clearing this up because i wasn't 100% sure as i saw how you did the setup with 2 layers but wasn't anything about real weather, so know i am sure that i didn't forget to do something or was my fault. So again for clearing this upto bad that this doesn't work :( because i would love to have those zero-vis approaches but of course not when i decide, I would love to have it at random, that's why i have problems to not fly with real weather conditions, after months and months it's hard to go setup your weather when everything can do it auto and realistic...I hope you can find the answer to this one day or find a solution. One thing i have been asking myself why can we see through for up to down but not from down the ground to the sky, wouldn't it be possible for example to swap the cloud so perhaps we then see through the sky but not when we descend in approach. This is only a suggestion he i have no idea how this could be done or if it is even possible, but perhaps I can give you that idea to you pros :) Hey, you never know...