REX Essential PLUS vs OpusFSX

[WebMaximus 372]

Anyone did a comparison between the improved wx engine in REX Essential PLUS and OpusFSX yet?

[DreamsOfWings 18]

I dont think anyone has been able to download it yet. I've been trying since it's release. I'm curious about that too myself.

[WebMaximus 372]

Same here but I do think some must have been able to download it but of course chances are not that big those few who managed to get hold of it are also OpusFSX owners...just have to wait a while then I guess but will be interesting to see and/or hear the result!

 

Bought OpusFSX not long ago and so far I'm very pleased but of course it's always interesting to see what's around the corner. Also OpusFSX will be updated soon as I understood it and that will make it even better so this seem to be great time for wx engines :wink:

[XPX64man 130]

I'll probably just use my REX for the hi res textures and Opus for the weather engine and camera views. I've never seen a weather engine that worked as good as Opus.

[WebMaximus 372]

I'll probably just use my REX for the hi res textures and Opus for the weather engine and camera views. I've never seen a weather engine that worked as good as Opus.

 

I highly doubt I will use anything but OpusFSX myself considering how happy I am with it. At the moment I'm using it with AS 2012 cloud textures since I never managed to find REX cloud textures I like or textures that look realistic and as good as in all screenshots featuring REX.

[HighTowers 1,434]

This is a huge dilemma now. Opus FSX has been spot on accurate as to the depicted weather and METARS. REX has always been far from being accurate. I would think they would have rectified this by now with a major upgarde.

Now REX Plus has winds aloft and Opus doesnt,.. yet.

 

But I continue to have these sudden wind shifts, which cause drops and increases in airspeed and altitude. While their support has been outstanding to try to rectify it ,it continues and everytime I fly with VAFS I get penalized for my bad G forces.

 

Ive downloaded REX plus since im an owner of the original anyhow, but havnt run it yet as I have a P3D key issue.

[bivanov 0]

I dont think anyone has been able to download it yet.

I downloaded REXe+ last night. First tried it with Firefox and it froze up but then I did it with FlashGet (like they advise) and it downloaded pretty smoothly in about 10 minutes. So far, I really like it. I've had none of the issues that I've had with the previous version (which were plentiful, i.e. freezes, crashes, painfully slow loading, disrupting injections, etc). Knocking on wood, of course, I think they really did it right this time.

[Jim Young 2,356]

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See a couple of comments towards the end of this thread: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/390330-rex-essential-plus-and-overdrive-are-ready/page__st__50

 

It's way too early and there are way too many variables to get too carried away with comparisons at this point for the reasons stated in the thread. These are initial impressions.

 

BTW, if you're having trouble DL'ing, I'd strongly recommend holding off on doing the OD part, and just upgrade to Plus. It's a far smaller DL, so you can get going and try the new functions now, and then pick up the OD textures later when server loads drop.

 

Scott

[ZKOKQ 984]

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Good grief Jim, not sure why you moved this. It is not a Opus support thread. It is mainly about the new features of REX.

80% of the posts so far are about downloading REX. The Opus forum is about Opus, and should be OPUS only

 

Rex is first mentioned in the topic title. No dis respect Jim, but sometimes I think you get trigger happy. :smile:

[kannwar 47]

It seems like the Plus mode included with the REXE+ weather engine uses a similar method to injecting weather that OpusFSX does and has the same advantages i.e. instant injection with minimal stutters and interference. One advantage REXE+ has is that it now features historical weather (which I think is one of the next major features for OpusFSX) but I'm not sure how well it works yet. I am still very disappointed with the lack of decent visibiliy controls in REXE+ which haven't really been improved at all. Both AS2012 and OpusFSX allow you to set maximum surface level visibility and maximum upper level visibility too. REXE+ still doesn't offer this functionality it seems.

 

All in all I'm not sure if I will use the REXE+ weather engine as OpusFSX is working perfectly well for me right now. I'm not at all interested in winds aloft because I've yet to see a developer implement it whilst eliminating the suddent spikes and shifts that we all know too well.

 

Oh and if anyone is wondering the additional textures in REXE+ OD seem to be the same additional ones that came with the original Overdrive package. Not sure why they needed to re-write OD for REXE in all honesty.

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Thanks Tom. I hope Jim doesn't think I was being rude to him. Far from it.

[rstough 528]

I would like to address several items brought up in this post.

 

First, in regards to download issues we are aware of the slowness and we are actively working on it as I type. We greatly appreciate everyones patience.

 

Secondly, @hightowers I am not sure but are you the one who has been emailing me about his P3D issue. I just got your most recent email and I will respond to you shortly.

 

Thirdly, @those that seem to say REX is too complicated to configure. We are offering a FREE online training session tomorrow at 19UTC to help with that,

http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21896-training-session-1-installation-and-configuration/

 

Four, @those wondering what the PLUS is all about. Yes the upgrade includes fixes as well as an upgrade version for Overdrive. We also have included a new weather engine that is based upon the Weather Theme process, which includes real weather, archive weather, and you can use the random weather feature. We also include real upper level winds. We also have included a download center which will include in time new textures and additional fun stuff. This feature also allows us to make updates to REX Essential Plus/OD with out having to make HUGE downloads from here on out.

 

Fifth, @those wanting to know why we re-wrote Overdrive - We have moved on to REX "3" Essential with many new features over REX 2. We didn't want to leave those who had Overdrive out of the picture.

 

Finally, @kannwar - In the manual there are instructions under the heading of Visibility on how to set various custom levels of visibility. We feel this gives the user more control than just setting a max/min level. If you need help on how to do this please email me at: r_stough@realenvironmentxtreme.com

[tttocs 301]

One advantage REXE+ has is that it now features historical weather (which I think is one of the next major features for OpusFSX) but I'm not sure how well it works yet.

 

Seemed to work fine when I tried it last night. Bit slow to do the initial load of METARs and winds aloft, but no delays on injection after that. I picked an arbitrary day in July. The servers currently only have 2012 data, though REX says this will be expanded in time.

 

Scott