Hello,

i am not going to post a picture but i'll try to explain it.

i am using AS2012, and i am experiencing this while connected to vatsim (well i don't know if it will happen while offline, never flying offline) so the problem is, while there's clouds in the skyes, with a lot of holes between them, not overcast, i am experiencing rain. very unrealistic and can't be true. like it's raining from the skyes. thanks for the helpers!

Hello Daniel........

 

I have used AS2012 (and its predecessors) for my WX in FSX. I am a BIG fan of Active Sky - BUT, the blue sky rain showers and no full overcast have finally done me in (I think).

 

I recently bought a new WX program - Opus FSX. FINALLY, I have true overcast!!!!!! Rain that falls from clouds and not blue sky! Granted, this new program does not have all the bells and whistles that AS2012 has, but it gives me true, accurate weather, it's blazingly fast, and the program's dev is most helpful with any issues folks might have. I have it configured to be just my WX engine and I use just the graphics from AS2012, which I do like a lot.

 

It's available thru Flight1 - so, you have 30 days to try it after you buy it.......if you don't like it - get a refund. Simple.

 

All best,

Ray Landolt (Blackbird)

Hey thank mate, does fex do the same thing? BTW how can i use AS texture and ither program for weather? Thanks

is that AS problem or it is happening with all of the 3rd paty?

Hi Daniel - I don't know anything about FEX - never used it.

 

If you have run AS2012 even once and picked and loaded its graphics, you don't need to do anything else. Just start Opus, then start FSX and your good to go - it will use the AS graphics automatically. You don't need to start AS at all. This will prevent its weather engine from running, but will allow whatever graphics you chose to be used (clouds, etc).

 

Hope that helps.......

 

Sorry, don't know what you're asking in the above question.

 

 

All best,

Ray Landolt (Blackbird)

Gday

Fex is for sky and water textures, and is not a weather engine, and ive read good things about Opus

Jeff

Once they implement the client-side live weather system with weather injection into FSX over a local network, I will be seriously looking into OPUS. I have REX Essential for textures, with which I am exceptionally happy at the moment. I use ASE and have purchased AS2012 (though not installed it yet, time issues). Even if I end up not using AS2012 in favour of OPUS, I am still okay about having bought it, given the number of free updates and upgrades in particular Active Sky has made over the years... (think ASA to ASE for one)...

 

OPUS certainly looks promising to me, and with weather injection from a non-FSX PC over a network, it could well push AS/REX off my radar...

 

A

Is weather still a mystery to everyone here?

 

If you give me a whiteboard with only a black marker and tell me to draw in color, it's not going to work out too well.

 

Similarly, in FSX, no matter how many workarounds you try, you're still forced to work with FSX's weather limitations in the end. Shortcomings aren't so much the fault of the developer as much as they are of the sim and its weather engine.

 

Jim helped to create somewhat of a weather revolution where it was made a lot more realistic, but there's no way you can expect his products to deliver perfection when working in a far from perfect environment. Opus just came out, and we'll certainly find some shortcomings there, too, with no fault being directed at them from me - again, primarily at Microsoft.

 

What's everyone so excited about with weather injection from a networked PC anyway? This is nothing new. I've done that with both ASE and AS2012.

can i ask one little and most important one? does the rain from bluesky will happen with any weather engine? not just active sky? thanks!

Kyle, with all due respect, it is not the implementation of networked weather injection that is the big hoot... been doing that with Active Sky for some time as well... it is the apparent improvement of the appearance of weather in FSX that OPUS offers.

 

OPUS does not support this networked capability for weather as of the time of writing and I do not want to run the weather system on the FSX computer. As such, I will wait until it does support this networking configuration before I try it out and see if it is really a worthy candidate and dethrones AS on my FSX setup...

 

A

Gotcha - thanks for the clarification.

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Hello Daniel........

 

I have used AS2012 (and its predecessors) for my WX in FSX. I am a BIG fan of Active Sky - BUT, the blue sky rain showers and no full overcast have finally done me in (I think).

 

I recently bought a new WX program - Opus FSX. FINALLY, I have true overcast!!!!!! Rain that falls from clouds and not blue sky! Granted, this new program does not have all the bells and whistles that AS2012 has, but it gives me true, accurate weather, it's blazingly fast, and the program's dev is most helpful with any issues folks might have. I have it configured to be just my WX engine and I use just the graphics from AS2012, which I do like a lot.

 

It's available thru Flight1 - so, you have 30 days to try it after you buy it.......if you don't like it - get a refund. Simple.

 

All best,

Ray Landolt (Blackbird)

i get overcast layers no problem with AS2012

... and AS2012 dont allow you to correctly see what weather is ahead of you as it can be removed at any time

 

If the METAR changes, the clouds can change, and treating the METAR as gospel can make this effect even more obvious.

 

In AS2012, if you're seeing clouds changing ahead of you too often, either increase the time between weather updates (if using Direct Weather Control, mine is set at 30 minutes) or use Smooth Cloud Transitions as your depiction choice.

 

does the rain from bluesky will happen with any weather engine? not just active sky?

 

I don't know about REX or Opus, but the built in real time weather in FSX certainly did it. We were getting it in Flight as well.

 

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