Also metardata is very rare in Europe. There are so many areas with zero Metar and therefore only some clouds appear, mainly around the aircraft where areas in greater distance are nearly cloudless (became more cloudy as the aircraft reaches this areas, despite cloud draw distance is set to 100 miles).

 

 

I dont see that, coverage is very well in Europe, and correct to what I see on charts etc at: euro.wx.propilots.net/

Sorry to say but I'm not really feeling confident with Opus.

Today during my flight from ENGM same windspeed and direction at FL380 enroute with only 6 knots. In descend, winddirection suddenly changes complete (90°)in a second for some minutes, then at FL240 absolutely no wind for several minutes!

 

Also metardata is very rare in Europe. There are so many areas with zero Metar and therefore only some clouds appear, mainly around the aircraft where areas in greater distance are nearly cloudless (became more cloudy as the aircraft reaches this areas, despite cloud draw distance is set to 100 miles).

 

Maybe it's more for visual flights at low altitudes at the moment, but as an airliner pilot I'm not really satisfied.

 

I will install AS2012 new Beta 2 and do the same flight to compare now.

May I suggest you visit the official Flight 1 Opus forum, and read up on setting up Opus LWE, seems to me you have either a corrupted install, or your settings are suspect. Just a suggestion.

I dont see that, coverage is very well in Europe, and correct to what I see on charts etc at: euro.wx.propilots.net/

Then I don't know, why there were so many areas with zero metar on my flight from ENGM to LSZH. I intentionally left the metar-window open during flight, because of the sparse quantity of clouds.

 

May I suggest you visit the official Flight 1 Opus forum, and read up on setting up Opus LWE, seems to me you have either a corrupted install, or your settings are suspect. Just a suggestion.

I have set up GRIB data and LWE as written in the pdf, but I will try a complete reinstall later. :mellow:

Hi opus team, is there any way you can integrate weather with the NGX sdk so we can get a weather radar?

 

There is no weather radar in the NGX, the SDK can't provide data to something that doesn't exist in the code in the first place. Regardless, as with another thread I replied in about ground friction stuff, we're not going to make our products require other products for features to work, so I think any talk of radars that are fed by external data are going to be a non-starter for us.

Then I don't know, why there were so many areas with zero metar on my flight from ENGM to LSZH. I intentionally left the metar-window open during flight, because of the sparse quantity of clouds.

 

 

I have set up GRIB data and LWE as written in the pdf, but I will try a complete reinstall later. :mellow:

 

 

It looks like you ran out the weather area with no updates running. I suggest get to the flight1 OPUSFSX forum and post it there for a very fast follow up and help.

Support is very fast!.

Sorry to say but I'm not really feeling confident with Opus.

Today during my flight from ENGM same windspeed and direction at FL380 enroute with only 6 knots. In descend, winddirection suddenly changes complete (90°)in a second for some minutes, then at FL240 absolutely no wind for several minutes!

 

Also metardata is very rare in Europe. There are so many areas with zero Metar and therefore only some clouds appear, mainly around the aircraft where areas in greater distance are nearly cloudless (became more cloudy as the aircraft reaches this areas, despite cloud draw distance is set to 100 miles).

 

Maybe it's more for visual flights at low altitudes at the moment, but as an airliner pilot I'm not really satisfied.

 

I will install AS2012 new Beta 2 and do the same flight to compare now.

 

Might want to verify your wind smoothing options are enabled under "weather" and be sure the fsxserver is running as administrator rights.

There is quite a few tips under the getting starting guide that should be implemented. Recheck they are all done. Ive missed a couple points before.

I dont see that, coverage is very well in Europe, and correct to what I see on charts etc at: euro.wx.propilots.net/

 

+1

Ok so I just purchased...

 

Why on earth can I not install this to a folder other than \OpusFSX in the root of the drive? The manual seems to indicate that's all that's allowed and when I tried putting it in E:\FS Stuff\OpusFSX, which is my main container folder for non-aircraft FS utilities like weather and texture addons, the program throws an error saying it's unable to find its own folder when I run it.

 

I do not like the root folders of my drives getting cluttered up with program folders and files like this and it's something that's bugged me about Flight 1's system for a very long time, the fact that you have to leave .lic files within folders in your C:\ root or stuff stops working. (ie - why can't these be stored in a FSX\Flight 1 Software\Licenses folder or something similar in an organized fashion?) Is that the reason here or is it something else?

Yep, I installed the lic in C, the rest in D:/OPUSFSX

Its a flight1 thing I guess. But I copied it from C drive, te be sure.

Its not pretty, so we need to bug flight1 about this.

_{Sorry to say but I had to revert from OPUS FSX to REX+EZDOK. My reasons are I didn't like the Cockpit DHM compared to EZDOK (personal preference maybe) and I like the Wx depictions that REX gives more (again personal preference). On top of that TrackIR was just horrible in OPUS FSX and I didn't want to spend time to get it right although I hear that it is possible. Cheers jja}

Ok so I just purchased...

 

Why on earth can I not install this to a folder other than \OpusFSX in the root of the drive? The manual seems to indicate that's all that's allowed and when I tried putting it in E:\FS Stuff\OpusFSX, which is my main container folder for non-aircraft FS utilities like weather and texture addons, the program throws an error saying it's unable to find its own folder when I run it.

 

I do not like the root folders of my drives getting cluttered up with program folders and files like this and it's something that's bugged me about Flight 1's system for a very long time, the fact that you have to leave .lic files within folders in your C:\ root or stuff stops working. (ie - why can't these be stored in a FSX\Flight 1 Software\Licenses folder or something similar in an organized fashion?) Is that the reason here or is it something else?

 

Thats my only annoyance with the software, you need to keep your files in

 

C:\Opus Software

 

and

 

C:\OpusFSX

 

Other then that, OPUS is great.

I also wish I could have installed to he folder I wanted.

I like my files tidy as well, and having not one but two opus folders in my main c drive root is a huge annoyance.

 

As said, other then that the software is great.

 

 

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I purchased OPUS when it first came out and had issues with windshifts which OPUS worked diligently to resolve. Now with the true GRIB winds I do get windshifts climbing above FL200 and decending below FL190; which is recovery altitude.

 

I played around with it this morning some again and found that if I change RA to 0 and then implement wind smoothing in a registered FSUIPC it seemed to smooth the wind shifts. This seems to work for me but no guarantees for anybody else.

 

I am in the process of comparing this paid wx engine to a free one just released which does use FSUIPC for wind smoothing and so far they are neck in neck for usage in my sim.

IDK while I liked FSXWx it's definitely not working as well as OPUS for me. Granted fsxwx is free hehe.

Understand Ryan. Wind smoothing seems to work much better is fsxwx so far and the upper winds in both are identical. Granted they use fsuipc for smoothing. What would we do without fsuipc!

 

They both use the same weather creation so I am having a difficult.time finding the better one.

 

Just my 2 cents worth. Still use both alternating.