Yes we are very connected to Sun-Dog.   The integration is using the SliverLining SDK for its backbone and Sun-Dog has been working very closely with us on tailoring the SDK to work seamlessly with X-Plane.

 

If you look around on the Sun-Dog site you will see they are involved with commercial and military simulation.  This is great news for the X-Plane community since it will bring a degree of realism used in commercial sims.....

HDR is off yes.....

Cool! I thought it looked familiar. I actually even posted videos of Silverlining and Triton here a few times as a possibility, and that brings up a question: Any chance of integrating Triton as well, for Xplane water? Or is the system too different?

Cool! I thought it looked familiar. I actually even posted videos of Silverlining and Triton here a few times as a possibility, and that brings up a question: Any chance of integrating Triton as well, for Xplane water? Or is the system too different?

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Lol!

 

I have been playing with the demos for a few years and posted the links a few times, but could never tell if anyone was interested. It always seemed like a possible good match, so I'm very happy to see this tech reach Xplane!

Lol!

 

I have been playing with the demos for a few years and posted the links a few times but could never tell if anyone was interested. Very happy to see this tech reach Xplane!

It is a nice system, whats great about it verses other cloud SDK's is it is very lightweight and runs well in X-Plane....

 

When you factor in systems, flight model, scenery so on and so on it is important to make sure other elements fit into the whole X-Plane experience....SilverLining is the perfect answer to this problem....

He made that face when I mentioned water before. He's up to something the shifty bugger:)

 

Also if it looks this good with HDR off, that may make it unnecessary which will save a few frames. Do you get crappy frames with HDR on?

 

Good to see you round these parts BTW HiFlyer...

He made that face when I mentioned water before. He's up to something the shifty bugger:)

 

Also if it looks this good with HDR off, that may make it unnecessary which will save a few frames. Do you get crappy frames with HDR on?

 

Good to see you round these parts BTW HiFlyer...

Same drop in performance that I see with default clouds.  Its a personal taste of mine, never been a fan of HDR....

 

As far as the water is concerned to be more specific we haven't moved on this as of yet and have been focused on the clouds. But I can say it has been discussed and it may work its way into XPX....much of this depends on the popularity of SkyMAXX Pro......

I know that Silverlining can also do ground shadows. Is SkyMAXX Pro going to integrate this feature as well?

 

@scotchegg: I always keep an eye on X-plane; sometimes even both eyes, when something like this comes along. :-)

I know that Silverlining can also do ground shadows. Is SkyMAXX Pro going to integrate this feature as well?

 

@scotchegg: I always keep an eye on X-plane; sometimes even both eyes, when something like this comes along. :-)

In this release no.....problem being nothing to this scale has been done before with the art assets in X-Plane and many datarefs needed to make this work are not exposed.  With that said the future will be bright for this add-on and I see LR giving us a bit more attention....

 

So hang tight, and enjoy the ride  

....much of this depends on the popularity of SkyMAXX Pro......

you won't have to worry about that, every XP10 owner will buy this and it will also bring new XP10 buyers

Incredible Looking,Can't Wait!!

Just waiting for the link to buy, card at the ready. :rolleyes:

It will be interesting to see how this works. I had posted about Silverlining on the Outerra forums as well, and they replied that they had looked at it and found it unacceptable for super-high altitude views. (they just recently revealed their own cloud engine) Meanwhile, similar concerns about Triton were raised on the Unity Tech forum quite some time ago. A detailed explanation about how it would all work was given by Sun-Dog at the time, but it will be great to see the actual implementation on a round earth at extreme altitudes.

 

If you have any pictures or Videos, that would be awesome! I'm always fascinated by this stuff.  ^_^

Nice!

How does it look at higher altitudes (typical tubeliner FLs)?

Does the weather extend further than the default clouds?

Due to the fact that they do not extend to the horizon I always have the impression that the weather is following my plane around, while elsewhere it is clear.

The (default) clouds extend according to your world detail distance. But with clouds until the horizon (what isn't possible even with the highest setting), you would have a slideshow.

Sorry for the late reply, unfortunately I have work   Here is at 45,000ft

 

Cloud layers:

 

High= Cirrus 28,000

Mid=  Cumulus Scattered 13,000

Low=  Cumulus Scattered 7,000-12,000

 

Visibility= 100%

 

To be clear the clouds do cut off and uwespeed is correct but as you can see the cutoff is very unnoticeable even at 45,000-50,000ft ....I think it presents way better than X-Plane 10 default..... 

 

 

 

HiFlyer Ill have an image for you in a second.......

It will be interesting to see how this works. I had posted about Silverlining on the Outerra forums as well, and they replied that they had looked at it and found it unacceptable for super-high altitude views. (they just recently revealed their own cloud engine) Meanwhile, similar concerns about Triton were raised on the Unity Tech forum quite some time ago. A detailed explanation about how it would all work was given by Sun-Dog at the time, but it will be great to see the actual implementation on a round earth at extreme altitudes.

 

If you have any pictures or Videos, that would be awesome! I'm always fascinated by this stuff.  ^_^

Here you go, if you squint your eyes you can see the KC-10 departing KBOS: