Can anybody tell me what the differences are between the above programs ?

Would it make sense to have both ? Or could they interfere into each other ?

I use FSX Deluxe and many PMDG products,such as the 747,MD-11 and 737.

 

Thanks for you suggestions

 

Hubert Werni

Both programs is an live weather engine that comes with textures that can really alter the sky/cloud/runway/taxiway etc etc look..

 

I personally find the textures in REX better than AS2012 but the best weather engine is in my opinion neither of thoose .I would recommend OpusFSX

 

and then find some nice textures as I remember you can get some really decent ones for a low cost or maybe even freeware (can't remember the name)

 

Either that or Rex E+ for textures and OpusFSX for the weather..

 

Other topic on OpusFSX http://forum.avsim.net/topic/395823-can-somebody-please-explain-opus/

Choose real environment xtreme becuse it looks more realistic to me and you can customize your the way your runway and taxiways look on the ground. you can also customize alot of other different things. i dont know if you can do that with the other one.

i dont know if you can do that with the other one.

 

You can.

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Both products are quite similar in that they have a weather engine and textures. As2012 has been and continues to be the choice for accurate weather throughout all types of flight situations. Graphics are in the eye of the beholder - some prefer REX and some prefer AS2012. Many people have both.

 

Vic

As2012 has been and continues to be the choice for accurate weather throughout all types of flight situations.

A baseless statement indeed Vic.

Rex for textures is great. As2012 is excellent for weather especially since sp2. It is a must have in my opinion. Opus is great but I get popping clouds and its a little harder to set up cameras. Rex weather stinks. I've tried them all and Rex is the least accurate.

 

Thanks

Anthony

Opus is great but I get popping clouds and its a little harder to set up cameras.

 

You make it sound as if REX and AS2012 also have camera options: they don't. And for most it's easier to setup camera's with Opus then with EZDOK. ^_^

Sorry, yes active sky and Rex don't have camera options. So that is an advantage of opus if you don't have ezdok.

I use ActiveSky 2012 - I used to use the REX weather engine but it is NMs behind ActiveSky. I found that the weather generation of REX was often inaccurate, high altitude winds were always a problem, and had a nasty tendency to over-speed me whenever new weather was loaded in. ActiveSky with its direct weather control is much smoother, and gives you a great deal of control over the weather settings too. It also can prepare a weather plan to go with your flight planning if you wish. I've not tried Opus so can't comment either way on that one.

 

In terms of graphics I'm firmly on the fence. Currently I'm using AS2012's offering, however have switched between the two several times and still can't decide which I prefer. They both have their advantages and disadvantages I personally think that the sky, either during day or night looks better from AS2012, however I think the clouds and fog look better when generated in REX - But I haven't tried mixing and matching, although I think it is possible...

I use ActiveSky 2012 - I used to use the REX weather engine but it is NMs behind ActiveSky.

 

Have you tried the newest version of REX? I've heard the weather depiction has improved a lot. I use AS2012 so I can't compare it myself.

 

Hook

I have used Rex essential overdrive for a couple of months after it came out. I experienced a lot of cloud pop-up, weather change and wrong depiction of Metar. Before each flight, i was looking at all metar on my route to see what I could expect but Rex rendition was quite different in most cases. I purchased Opus two weeks ago and its spot on ip to now. So after several years of using REX, i switched to Opus for the weather engine.

 

I use low resolution cloud from Rex as high resolution reduce too much the fps on my surround system.

 

I still use ezca for camera as I'm quite satisfied with it.

 

Pierre

 

 

Have you tried the newest version of REX? I've heard the weather depiction has improved a lot.

 

I upgraded mine to REXE+ and it seems much improved. The load times are excellent, the weather depiction is excellent and has been quite accurate. On my very first flight had a major temperature problem at low altitude in GA. But, since then, no problems with RW weather. The manual visibility override seems, at best, to be pretty difficult to set up. I'm still working on figuring that out. So, I love it but then sigh a little.

 

Gregg

Any weather engine can produce the weather to match a METAR, including the built-in real world weather and freeware weather engines.

 

If you're seeing weather considerably different from what you expect for whatever reason in any weather program, it may be due to a bug should be reported. In many cases it's due to using some weather setting that can override the local METAR, and this can happen in any weather program, but at least the response from your report will tell you what needs to be changed.

 

All three of the major weather engines will give you very similar cloud depictions, and should all be very close to what the METARs report. The previous version of REX did not always depict clouds very well, but the newest update should handle that.

 

One difference between weather engines is how they depict weather in areas of sparse METAR coverage. For example, AS2012 will happily generate some very reasonable weather in areas far from any METAR station due to the various interpolation mechanisms it uses. While the weather shown may not be what they're experiencing on the ground at the time, as long as the weather is reasonable it doesn't matter. Besides, how are you going to prove it's wrong? Try a flight over the ocean in REXE+ or Opus and tell me what you see; I have no idea how these programs handle it. In AS2012 I can go from clear sky to clouds and back to clear sky, with no METAR stations within 1000 miles.

 

Hook