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Would have been great with accompanying METARs.

Agreed.

Without the METAR information this video "weather comparison" is more a "looks comparison".

Agreed.

Without the METAR information this video "weather comparison" is more a "looks comparison".

Agreed and along with that, I was also wondering where OPUS had pulled the graphics for the clouds it was displaying. As I understand it only REX and ASE provide textures with the weather engine. Therefore, I had guessed it was displaying default FSX textures. To be truly fair I think we would need that bit of information too. Where are the textures coming from. Maybe I'm just over analyzing it.

As far as I know, the textures could be any (default, REX, FEX, AS, etc...).

The point is, a video comparison to show weather software should at least inform the METAR, to let us simmers know and judge wich one has the best depiction. Not the best visuals.

Not really, Mauricio. Even if the weather systems are the same the textures can present a misleading image if they are not the same. After all I think we can all agree REX clouds are very different than default clouds.

The reason I like OPUS -- 'no pop-ins' and simplicity at its best.

The reason I like OPUS -- 'no pop-ins' and simplicity at its best.

I saw cloud popping from OPUS, please see my comment above, quoted below for your convenience.

The last shot, there at BIKF seems off especially for OPUS where there is some cloud popping especially around 3:19, 3:25, and 3:27.

Here's a part of the description from Youtube:

 

"5 airports - 3 weather engines with live downloaded weather (using rex textures)"

 

Based on that, I would think that the same textures are used by all the weather engines. As many of you have said, we can't be sure that the same exact weather/metar was used as not all weather engines support historical data.

 

Anywhoo a good overall comparison.

 

(Disclamer:I own REX and AS and most likely will buy Opus because of the camera/view system)

Very difficult to make any real comparison without listing the metar used.

 

I bought Opus a week or two ago... never looked back since... okay, the winds aloft are not matched up with real world yet, but I really feel that the developers will nail that with time. They plan on implementing the GRIB data...

 

The visibilty when flying in IMC is amazing in Opus... Flying down to minimums is a whole new ball game... now and then along comes a game changer... well, this is one of those moments if you ask me...

 

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Useful seeing these three major competitors side by side. They all render realistic looking weather, but since they're quite different it would have been useful to have the METARs to see which was closest to the real thing. Also would be useful to know if the textures are being swapped or if this is just demonstrating the weather engines.

For those who have access to REX and AS2012, try this with your weather engine, if possible post a video showing the effect. This is why I'm so happy with OPUS

 

The visibilty when flying in IMC is amazing in Opus... Flying down to minimums is a whole new ball game... now and then along comes a game changer... well, this is one of those moments if you ask me...

 

This is the big leap between REX/AS and OPUS' weather engine in my opinion. If you set up at an airport and compare the weather conditions portrayed between the three engines (and even the default), I doubt you would see much difference.

 

Opus' strength is it's ability to do what Alec has demonstrated above. I can be 50..70 miles out...enter a high overcast or broken layer, and not see anything until you see the runway environment much later.

 

I did drink a bit too much of the Opus Kool-Aid like everyone who has it recently, so it's difficult to try and be pretty subjective...especially with all the options and configurations that are possible when working with something like ASE for example. It's difficult to compare both engines accurately without a serious understanding of how each individual engine work. Opus has provided me with a very simple one step accurate weather...minus it's winds aloft etc. etc. Those things we hope will come with time.