Really Soeren? I have noted your argument and requests. Thank you for your feedback.

 

 

ThanksTim.

 

As you can see, I am not the only one missing this info.

 

Soeren Nielsen

The weather engine creates layering, fog, wind, turbulence, etc and In my opinion, the environment created by the REX weather engine is more alive and believable. Its too bad the software wasn't as complete as AS.

 

agreed. the more i fly rex the more impressed i get. i'm getting my temps from as2012 during planning phase but doing all rex during flight.

 

One thing that I'll check for sure is the left-right swings of NGX that are eliminated in AS2012, but some people say are present in REXE. I know it can be fixed with FSUIPC but I'd prefer things like this to be handled by the weather engine itself.

 

it seems handled well, in my opinion...with the defaultsettings not so much, saw s-turns for sure, but there are a couple different smoothing options in REX!!! enabling real wind smoothing and reducing the max turbulence leaves a fairly stable NGX without needing FSUIPC...and still leaves enough turbulence to keep things interesting... tonight i'm gonna try the hyper smoothing mode to compare, it might be even better..

 

cheers,

-andy crosby

I tried this but didn’t like it as much. I agree that AS does a better job software wise with weather reporting and planning; I also agree that by using the AS weather engine with REX textures you will have a great setup. But the visuals are more that just good textures. The weather engine creates layering, fog, wind, turbulence, etc and In my opinion, the environment created by the REX weather engine is more alive and believable. Its too bad the software wasn't as complete as AS.

I believe that if you use the AS engine, your REX Config manager settings won't take effect as they drive the REX engine.

 

So you mean that REX can create an environment that AS2012 can't create, even if with the REX textures? AS2012 does create its environment, what is "more alive and believable" in REX?

So you mean that REX can create an environment that AS2012 can't create, even if with the REX textures? AS2012 does create its environment, what is "more alive and believable" in REX?

For starters its rex esentials to start with and it has more options than rex2 did, and now does a better job in the weather engine than it did before, and if your happy with as2012 than thats good for you.

it seems handled well, in my opinion...with the defaultsettings not so much, saw s-turns for sure, but there are a couple different smoothing options in REX!!! enabling real wind smoothing and reducing the max turbulence leaves a fairly stable NGX without needing FSUIPC...and still leaves enough turbulence to keep things interesting... tonight i'm gonna try the hyper smoothing mode to compare, it might be even better..

 

cheers,

-andy crosby

 

Cheers Andy! Hope to have a better look during the weekend!

Is there a link where I can load my original REX? I down loaded essentials and am disappointed.

Let me first say I have a high end FSX built rig that outperforms however I found the weather down load times not acceptable

 

An example was my Alaskan flight ,1 hour a-b.

Rex just started to load on the screen on finals. navigating through the site and its "constant apparent freezing" is pain.

 

Airline pilots who have a long preparation time wont mind but the bushpilot wont be impressed. For now

I have it pinned to the start menu so its well loaded for flight.

 

Im not the only one, AVSIM revue

 

 

What I Don't Like About REX v2

• User Interface can freeze
  
• Long texture loading times
  
• 
  

Because you choose NOT to read the manual zoran. That was a revue of REX2 by the way.

timest fobbing me off to the manual is NOT the way to handle support. This is the first time any support forum has told me "go read the manual"

 

why not describe how to set the slider to minimize load times

enabling real wind smoothing and reducing the max turbulence leaves a fairly stable NGX without needing FSUIPC...and still leaves enough turbulence to keep things interesting... tonight i'm gonna try the hyper smoothing mode to compare, it might be even better..

 

cheers,

-andy crosby

 

Just out of curiosity, what did you set max turbulence to?

Just out of curiosity, what did you set max turbulence to?

 

i'm messing with 1 and 2. so far i think 1 is the only setting that totally eliminates s-turns. with 2 i had a couple perfect flights but also after i posted this i had at least one where the ngx autopilot flipped out.

 

that also led me to trying it in conjunction with fsuipc.....trying combinations of that with 2 wind shear seemed to work better at minimizing the pressure and wind spikes.. but i'm going to try without it also and just setting shear off and/or turbulence off..still experimenting..

 

still trying to find the perfect combo but i think it's pretty close, i'll post all my settings after i get a couple perfect flights. right now the main issue is i find fsuipc sometimes was keeping the winds from updating correctly instead of smoothing them, turning smoothing off and reloading seemed to fix it, not sure if this is a repeatable thing or an occaisional bug or what.

 

 

timest fobbing me off to the manual is NOT the way to handle support. This is the first time any support forum has told me "go read the manual"

 

why not describe how to set the slider to minimize load times

 

if you're seeing load times of up to an hour than you're doing something extremely wrong... it sounds like you are having it write the textures while you are using fsx already or something like that?? even writing ALL the textures fresh should only take a couple minutes. and loading in the sim shouldn't take more than 15 seconds or so.. at least in my experience with it... what's so hard about RTFM anyway.... and if you're bush flying the ngx then well you're a brave one indeed lol

 

cheers

-andy crosby

i'm messing with 1 and 2. so far i think 1 is the only setting that totally eliminates s-turns. with 2 i had a couple perfect flights but also after i posted this i had at least one where the ngx autopilot flipped out.

 

that also led me to trying it in conjunction with fsuipc.....trying combinations of that with 2 wind shear seemed to work better at minimizing the pressure and wind spikes.. but i'm going to try without it also and just setting shear off and/or turbulence off..still experimenting..

 

still trying to find the perfect combo but i think it's pretty close, i'll post all my settings after i get a couple perfect flights. right now the main issue is i find fsuipc sometimes was keeping the winds from updating correctly instead of smoothing them, turning smoothing off and reloading seemed to fix it, not sure if this is a repeatable thing or an occaisional bug or what.

 

 

 

 

if you're seeing load times of up to an hour than you're doing something extremely wrong... it sounds like you are having it write the textures while you are using fsx already or something like that?? even writing ALL the textures fresh should only take a couple minutes. and loading in the sim shouldn't take more than 15 seconds or so.. at least in my experience with it... what's so hard about RTFM anyway.... and if you're bush flying the ngx then well you're a brave one indeed lol

 

cheers

-andy crosby

 

"it sounds like you are having it write the textures while you are using fsx already or something like that"

 

​yep that was what I did thanks for that.

Dont know why developers give out manuals for since people seem to dont read them first and start to complain why things dont seem to work and the answers are there right in front of them

Am i the only one getting a huge framedrop every know and then when running the REX WX map engine? And every time REX is injecting weather frames would drop massively. This is not the case during ASE even via a Network PC.

I have even determined to NOT load EFB as i have no good experience with the NGX and this (even without VSD)

 

BUT the textures in REX E is absolute the best i have ever seen

 

Michael Moe

I get stuttering when loading wx from the REX wx engine, so I'm sticking with active sky.

But the textures are unmatched, and the program is really more about the textures and environments then the wx engine, at least imo.

So, summing up, is it 100% advisable to use AS2012 weather engine and REXE textures? 100% sure that I will NOT get any fps impact with the REXE textures compared to the AS2012 ones?