2 weeks is proverbial, we'll see. Until then.

 

Dirk.

Hmm As2012, over 6 months for a service pack, Rex is even longer, so 2 to 3 weeks is not bad. Anyway, I don't really care if you get opus or not, you seem to not understand how it works, so will leave it at that. Until then.

Hmm As2012, over 6 months for a service pack, Rex is even longer, so 2 to 3 weeks is not bad. Anyway, I don't really care if you get opus or not, you seem to not understand how it works, so will leave it at that. Until then.

 

After I downloaded the F1 installer I decided to go through their documentation first before buying. Having read their Live Weather Guide and Live Camera Guide I changed my mind due to the reasons you apparently missed both in this thread and in their documents. And yes, I can't care less how sensitive you are about opus. I will buy it when it is ready. For what it matters I don't like when developers mislead their prospective customers with statements like:

The perfect addon for Standalone and Networked systems!

in big coloured letters. Turns out their "Networked systems" is not implemented at least in context of this thread, should you care to read the question of the original poster.

 

Dirk.

should you care to read the question of the original poster.

 

I did and I will quote it for you "Which one do you recommend in order of best Weather Engine? I feel like Active Sky 2012 does not generate enough cloud layers...."

 

The original poster did not ask about networking a weather program. You are just trying to be flippant Dirk, and does not cut much ice with me.

What is the difference between FSrealwx lite and the opus? I've been using Active Sky for a long time. Today I tried FSrealwx lite for two flights and I feel it works nearly perfectly. It gives me the weather which matches nicely with metar and the wind is pretty smooth. I only noticed gusty wind transition once.

 

I have to say Active Sky is not a real-time weather program, but what is the reason to go for OpusFsx?

The original poster did not ask about networking a weather program.

 

Nor he did he ask you about Live Camera

in fact I gained more removing EZCA. It has a very small footprint.

(are you flippant?)

 

Networked implementation for the wx engine is very important yet for many here. And that makes my choice in favor of AS2012 yet.

 

Dirk.

Fanboism is an epidemic...

Fanboism is an epidemic...

 

same as 'staccato' talking these days, lol

 

For myself I always feel very limited by a number of factors when chosing a software based on my years of flightsimming and real world experience. Just for the hell of it I've bought OpusFSX, more to support its development as it seems quite deep and promising I must give it to them.

 

Dirk.

Fellas,

 

Right now I use AS2012 for weather and textures and Ezdok Camera for my views. I have a question about the latter. With Ezdok camera all views in the VC you make are saved in one file. Does this worh the same with the Opus views?

Fellas,

 

Right now I use AS2012 for weather and textures and Ezdok Camera for my views. I have a question about the latter. With Ezdok camera all views in the VC you make are saved in one file. Does this worh the same with the Opus views?

 

Rimshot, how about all the vibration, head and landig effects? They are also important and are all separate saves in EZDOK. Don't you use them?

 

You can read the pdf on OpusFSX here if you have a moment:

 

http://www.opussoftware.co.uk/opusfsi/OpusFSX_Live_Camera.pdf

 

I don't think I'll switch from EZDOK, so I haven't read this up.

 

Dirk.

Thanks Dirk. I indeed do not use all the Ezdok effects. I've tried them, but somehow I found them unconvincing when compared to real life flying.

Is everyone basing their verdicts about OPUS on its cloud generation engine only? ACCURATE winds aloft is currently inoperative which is a huge deal if you even remotely plan your flight properly. Using DWC in AS2012 I see almost no cloud shifts and redraws even over long distance flights. If OPUS has improved on that, I'll take a look at it then, but broken winds aloft is an absolute non-starter for me.

I caved and bought Opus the other night. Finally had the chance this morning to play around with the options.

I like the weather engine, even more then AS2012 or REX. When winds aloft gets added, it will be perfect in my opinion.

 

I do have a gripe though. Everyone raves about the camera control vs EZCA which I also own. I tried the Opus camera controls and TrackIR integration and absolutely HATED it. The camera is so jerky using Opus with TrackIR. With EZCA, it's smooth as butter and all my VC cameras are already setup that I can cycle through using hotkeys.

I actually think EZCA is easier to use then the Opus camera controls, go figure. I did test out all the DHM effects in Opus, and they seemed jerky too.

 

I'll probably end up using Opus just for Wx and leave EZCA as my camera mod.

Is everyone basing their verdicts about OPUS on its cloud generation engine only? ACCURATE winds aloft is currently inoperative which is a huge deal if you even remotely plan your flight properly. Using DWC in AS2012 I see almost no cloud shifts and redraws even over long distance flights. If OPUS has improved on that, I'll take a look at it then, but broken winds aloft is an absolute non-starter for me.

 

I fully agree that the winds aloft needs to be put in place in order for Opus to be complete. However, I find that the low level, terminal area weather generated by Opus is much better than anything else out there. An IFR approach in marginal weather is a totally different - and much more realistic - ball game with Opus than with the other weather engines I have.

I've bought and used all the weather engines made for the Flight Simulator over the past 10 years or so. Links to a couple of screenies of generated weather by OpusFSX.

The Cargoair screenshot if of a complete overcast during a flight UKBB-EDDK - The second was taken yesterday evening on Vatsim on a flightpath taking me over Hurricane Sandy.

I leave you guys to be the judges, specially those of you who have been using Rex, AS etc.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jkiu2kwkkbx9qkd/overcast.bmp

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/urdqruor8k7cdxk/Sandy1.bmp

 

 

Regards

Set layers to 30 in AS2012 and in fsx config cloud cover to 12, 8 is default

 

Nyxx, I tried it yesterday and actually the result was very good, quite comparable with OpusFSX in terms of cloud generation. With OpusFSX FPS were lower (~3-5), but I think it was due to AS2012 running on the Client pc in the first place. Yet OpusFSX's multi-layer cloud generation looked more attractive or real (subjectively though), so if they add network functionality, winds aloft and some reasonable wx GUI, I may switch to OpusFSX. But I bet that will take them quite a while, SimConnect and winds aloft problems can bring any development on its knees.

 

Dirk.

 

PS: Again, Nyxx, thanks for the advise on the settings, I'll use them as they are quite workable.