April 1, 201214 yr I uninstalled REX and moved on to Active Sky.. OMG what a difference.. No more ungodly clouds.. The entire sky is beautiful all the time, every single time.. And the weather engine is AMAZING. ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING / i9-9900k @ 4.7 all cores w/ NOCTUA NH-D15S / 2080ti / 32GB G.Skill 3200 RIPJAWS / 1TB Evo SSD / 500GB Evo SSD / 2x 3TB HDD / CORSAIR CRYSTAL 570X / IPSG 850W 80+ PLATINUM / Dual 4k Monitors
April 1, 201214 yr Author AS 2012.. I only use the 512 or 1024 textures as anything higher in my book is just useless for my needs. Besides being a severe hurting on performance. Who really needs 4096x4096 cloud textures? The problem I had with REX was it never seemed to fill in anything right, and the low level clouds looked over saturated and fake. AS2012 is just amazing me so far.. It fills in, it does visibility correctly, the weather engine is just 10x more than I was expecting..While I'm here some examples of how it handles 3 common weather patterns.. Sunny partly cloudly, Gloomy and threatening, and smack dab in the middle of torrential downpour. This is all real world weather too which I just looked up in its Wx finder, switched to that airport and the weather was loaded in 5 seconds. Edited April 1, 201214 yr by Superpilotv2 Picture in subsequent post ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING / i9-9900k @ 4.7 all cores w/ NOCTUA NH-D15S / 2080ti / 32GB G.Skill 3200 RIPJAWS / 1TB Evo SSD / 500GB Evo SSD / 2x 3TB HDD / CORSAIR CRYSTAL 570X / IPSG 850W 80+ PLATINUM / Dual 4k Monitors
April 1, 201214 yr Commercial Member Nice shots, however pics are to be posted in the 1st topic, and not the replies. So in essence, you should have created another post KROSWYND a.k.a KILO_WHISKEYMajestic Software Development/Support Sys 1: AMD 7950X3D, NOCTUA D15S, Gigabyte Elite B650, MSI 4090, 64Gb Ram, Corsair 850 Power Supply, 2x2TB M.2 Samsung 980s, 1x4TB WDD M.2, 6xNoctua 120mm case fans, LG C2 55" OLED running at 120Hz for the monitor, Win11. Sys 2: i7 8700k, MSI GAMING MBoard, 32Gigs RAM, MSI 4070Ti & EVGA 1080Ti. Hardware: Brunner CLS-E-NG Yoke, Fulcrum One yoke, TM TPR Rudder Pedals, Yoko TQ6+ NEO, StreamDeck, Tobii Eye Tracker, Virpil VPC MongoosT-50CM3 Base with a TM gripSIMULATORS: MSFS2020/XP12/P3D v5.4 & v6: YouTube Videos
April 2, 201214 yr Very nice pictures but REX Essentials is being released as a free update for both FSX and Prepar3d in the coming days and seems to be gearing up to be the ultimate weather engine and a lot more (including the implementation of atmospheric sounds). Check out their website, all the features they list for the update look out of this world!
April 2, 201214 yr Beautiful! I had the same "OMG moment" as styckx when I moved to AS2012... Let´s see what REX Essential can offer, we are spoiled with all the options, right? ^_^
April 3, 201214 yr Moderator AS 2012.. I only use the 512 or 1024 textures as anything higher in my book is just useless for my needs. Besides being a severe hurting on performance. Who really needs 4096x4096 cloud textures? The problem I had with REX was it never seemed to fill in anything right, and the low level clouds looked over saturated and fake. AS2012 is just amazing me so far.. I'm in the same boat. I think a lot of the REX clouds just look too harsh and unnatural. I switched a long time ago back to using 512 and 1024 cloud sets which look a bit softer and more natural, not stuck onto the sky like a canvas. Plus better peeformance and no hit when flying into storms. Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
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