Bought it, and yes its very very good!

Amazing.

 

I set the weather injection update to 30 minuts, or 300km, so one doesnt get too many injections, otherwise it switches the weather too fast.

Ok, so it wasn't a real world function...

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

To bad It sounded almost to good to be true...

We are currently working on including more weather server options (e.g. Vatsim), adding a historic weather option, and of course including an option for downloading and using GRIB upper winds/temps forecast data (true winds aloft as it is sometimes referred to). Development is proceeding very well and the beta phase will start very soon.

 

Weather Smoothing will also be available very soon providing more realistic smoothing and blending of the changing meteorological conditions ... We also still have the second phase of the WINTER heuristic weather interpolation algorithm to complete, this upgrade should be able to handle METAR voids such as mid Atlantic much better. The current algorithm extends the weather horizon until WINTER can do its job. The new one will extend the horizons more to consider the weather patterns and meteorological conditions over the NSEW horizons and then interpolate.

 

Development on all aspects of the interface is ongoing and continuous.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Regards

Stephen

 

P.S. Cheryl and I would like to thank you all for your kind comments, such enthusiastic feedback is very heart warming and encourages us to work harder to improve and enhance all aspects of the interface the best we can. Many thanks to you all. :-)

I must say, i didn't think anything could pull me away from AS2012, but after a few minutes with the demo I was sold and made my purchase.

 

Now I can't wait for winter to fly through some good Atlantic Canadian winter storms! :-)

Also remember you can save any interesting weather scenarios to fly in again later or share with others. Check out our Flight1 Saving Dynamic Weather as Static Weather Themes topic.

 

Stephen

I have to say, this is just one of the simplest and most powerful addons I have.

The main selling point for me is as stated before, the GUI, it is fast, has all the options needed, and is not overloaded with a insane amount of garbage that you don't need.

 

Nothing fancy to look at until you get in the sim, and that is the way it should be.

 

Right now the weather is awesome. I live in SouthEast GA, and Hurricane Sandy is marching up the coast offshore. The weather flying in a C90 ATM is "interesting"...lol

I must say, i didn't think anything could pull me away from AS2012, but after a few minutes with the demo I was sold and made my purchase.

 

Now I can't wait for winter to fly through some good Atlantic Canadian winter storms! :-)

 

Fully agree....I was very skeptical at the beginning but then reading some enthusiastic posts I decided to give it a try. It took me a few minutes to decide and buy it. To me it is a fantastic addon:

 

- easy user interface...after you have configured.....launch and forget...

- very good depiction of real weather

- Very realistic vibrations and turbolence shake

- absolutely no impact on FPS even if installed on the same FSX PC....to tell the truth using Opus as both weather engine and camera made me regain a few FPS ...

- very responsive customer support

- good room for improvement

 

....definitely reccomended...

 

Regards

I sure am sorry that I read this thread. You people sure know how to spend someone else's money. :lol: :lol:

 

I have used another weather program for several years and with the latest version, I'm exceedingly disappointed. I haven't gotten the correct weather more than 10% of the time since I installed it. It's predecessor was much more accurate. I feel that I wasted my money by upgrading.

 

With all the glowing comments about OpusX (something I usually take with a grain of salt) I guess I have no choice but to purchase.

 

Warning!!! - If it turns out not to be as good as you say, then I will have a talk with a voodoo chieftain and get him to put a hex on all your computers. :lol:

I will have a talk with a voodoo chieftain and get him to put a hex on all your computers

 

I am not worried. My guess is you will hire him to send flowers ^_^

I 'catch' the opportunity to ask, since you are talking about: or 1) WX engine, 2) Textures and 3) cameras presets and effects

.

I'm coming from FS9 and activecamera, so for FSX I'm looking for:

1) WX Engine - Opus looks promising

2) Thanks for the Free HDE suggestion (you save me an OPUS x 2 cost)

3) a. Cameras presets + b. Ground Roll Shake + 3.Inertial (head) movement

 

active camera does a+b+c, opus does (to my understanding) /a/+/c/. If you add /b/ makes rolling great

 

The flight planning and true winds aloft are coming soon, please see our flight1 coming soon topic.

We don't mess up the EZCA cameras, you can disable our Live Camera feature if you wish but it uses real world captured data, and you may be waiting quite a while for REX around that corner...

 

Give the demo a try, it won't cost you anything and I'm sure you will love it. You can use any textures you want, HDE (freeware) and FEX are the most popular with our users.

 

Regards

Cheryl

 

I find demo time of 10 minutes too short. I need 10 minutes what view (VC) I want and running against time to make some view presets. didn;t help me to validate the software.

Thanks for the freeware texture suggesions

 

You can assign joystick buttons or unused keyboard commands to camera views, if you assign the same button/key to multiple views associated with the same aircraft then the control can be used to cycle the views. Plus...

 

This is already listed in our Coming Soon Flight1 topic,

 

Panning Control Keys ...

 

Additional Live Camera option to pan the view around using the four arrow keys + two others.

 

Plus, in rplacing EZCA you will most likely gain 3 to 6 FPS in performance!

 

Does that help.

 

Stephen

 

Good to have panning keys - are there xyz axis traslational movement keys ?

If i'm correct OPUS has head movement. if you add ground roll it is what make roliing on rwy great.

 

You can assign views to all aircraft or whole groups of aircraft, handy for those external shots which only need to be different for small and large aircraft.

 

Yes, you can have smooth transition between all views, including external views now.

 

Plus the configuration is very easy and quick.

 

Regards

Stephen

 

Good to have configurations

 

 

Thanks for your time

 

Sam

Edited October 27, 201213 yr by SLKVP

Live Camera' DHM does a + b + c + d + ...

 

Taxii effects, takeoff, in flight low and high frequency intelligent turbulence effects, landing, ground roll, vibration effects dependent on engine, gear, flap settings, airspeed etc. the turbulence is controlled by the LWE based on your aircraft's current position in relation to the weather, meteorological conditions etc. I never remembered any of this in FS9. In fact these real effects are impossible to do in FS9, for a start you need the LWE to determine the turbulence parameters (frequency and severity) otherwise it is just random and not tied in with the flight or with the meteorological conditions.

 

All real, all based on real life captured 3D accelerometer data, captured on real aircraft !

 

For the ground roll (yes, of course we have ground roll) you may want to fasten your seat belt as well. We will soon be adding increased engine vibration for standing still engine tests and short field take offs plus new Rotorcraft data.

 

Stephen

 

I should have added, none of the additional effects (Rotorcraft vibrations etc) will be simulated wobbles, all our DHM data is based entirely on real life accelerometer data.

 

Stephen

 

Thank you! I will look at the demo once again.

Regards

Sam

So I just bought it, and going through it, trying it out.

 

Concerning weather simulation, it seems quite OK, compared to the AS2012, it doesn't give a "better" depiction, each program depicts differently, but the basis is more or less the same. What IS better is that there are no options. Is that better?

What I like though is the snappy function of the program. No bloatware. This is a definite plus. They should however add flight plan entry for wind reports like AS does, add windows aloft...

 

But some have reported AS2012 changing the weather often. Of course - AS2012 is by default set to change every 10 minutes, and Opus every 30 minutes. But do a test, and let Opus update the weather every 5min or 15km. You will see the whole cloud coverage shift to depict new update. If you do the same thing in AS2012, you are going to see the same thing. Also limiting cloud layers in AS will give you similar "sparse" depiction.

 

It seems to me that Opus definitely renders less clouds, could be to the possibility of an internal setting. I don't know.

 

Anyway, the experience is way too short to say anything else, I will have to see how it performs in some flights and what happens when there is full overcast outside etc...

 

Concerning Live Camera View:

This function is still way behind the functionality of EZCA. And no, EZCA doesn't steal any FPS.

Though it is very encouraging they are saying they are working on it.

What I like about it is the simplicity of the program, and the ability to add aircraft to config. Lets say I make NGX config, I can add all other NGXs to the config. But there are some quite serious downsides IMO:

- transitions between views are very jerky

- editing of the camera positions possible exclusively via arrows in the program, very annoying to set up

- having to switch manually through 3-clicks to the camera before I can edit it

 

What I'd love is to see more functions in the weather control, especially smoother clouds transitions, something AS2012 is quite capable of, more options in camera tranisitions, especially for powerusers of EZCA like myself.

Can the program contain lots of functions and abilities without being a bloatware?

Yeah where Opus seems to be doing way better than Active Sky are overcast and low visibility & foggy conditions, just flew full flight to Zurich as it has some dense snow and low visibility at the moment and I was very impressed with what Opus offers in these conditions, while when flying over Mediterranian with mostly clears skies, only few clouds it wasn't that different from Active Sky.

I'm a recent addition to the Opus user base. The program to date has performed as advertised. Weather injection does work seamlessly and is of a high quality. I certainly enjoy the fog, low ceilings and other IMC conditions it has added to my FSX experience. LIFR conditions can definitely now exist. In some short GA flights visibility has actually kept me out of certain airports which is just as it should be. I was super impressed that not only did I have to run a missed approach but that for the first time ever I really needed to think about weather at an alternate. This adds immersion to the sim and makes it worth using.

 

I am not a big fan of the camera settings or the shake but it can easily be turned on/off without ending my flight and that is a great feature.

 

Money well spent. Good value in my book.

 

 

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD