What cloud add on is that? By the way nice screenshots.

 

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I believe it's the default clouds in XP10

 

When not set throught METAR download, but rather manually, we get much better results :-)  But of course, I can be wrong and those clouds not being the standard ones ....

Looks standard to me, too.

Beautiful Shots and nice lighting.

Looks standard to me, too.

And I smell, that this is exactly what Murmur wanted to "say" B)

Indeed, creating random weather yields MUCH better results than real weather. So not the default clouds themselves are the problem, but how X-Plane is processing and visualizing the METAR data.

Indeed, creating random weather yields MUCH better results than real weather. So not the default clouds themselves are the problem, but how X-Plane is processing and visualizing the METAR data.

 

 

Exactly, and not only visually, but also on the way some fields are translated, although Austin accepted my suggestions a while ago and corrected the overdone turbulence due to the presence of wind variability, or when entering almost any cloud layer. It is a lot better now!

 

A good weather injector is what we also need :-)

I have to say, Im not a X-plane guy but those shoots sure blows my mind. Looks great B) Most realistic sky I have ever seen in a sim...

Indeed, creating random weather yields MUCH better results than real weather. So not the default clouds themselves are the problem, but how X-Plane is processing and visualizing the METAR data.

The X-PlaneX clouds are a great effort, but the problem for me is that they only "intermittently" appear cloud-like, and only from certain perspectives. More often they appear as a good attempt that fell a bit short. There has actually been a gradual downgrade from the original XPX clouds I believe, as you can see from videos from that time that the original clouds were much more "realistic" but gave a much larger frame-rate hit as a result. In later attempts to "optimize" them, they have become progressively less realistic seeming (to me)

 

However, as they were "volumetric" it always seemed to me that the Sundog implementation (Also volumetric, very lightweight, and which could also use openGL) was a good possible replacement.

Awesome shots Murmur ! :Applause:

 

My add-on is called "24%" and I'm using real weather... :wink:

 

Geroges,

 

do you mean you have your "pufs" at 24%? I have mine at 45%.

do you mean you have your "pufs" at 24%? I have mine at 45%.

 

Yes. It's my setting since Ben said that Clouds need a good GPU:

http://developer.x-plane.com/2011/12/tips-for-better-frame-rates-pt-1/

Good observation Georges!

 

I had actually lowered mine from 80% to 45%, and now, after reading your post, to 30%, because I actually find the looks of the clouds even more random / realistic at that setting than at the higher Pufs!

 

One thing I do not understand is how MdMAXX's new cloud add-on, if based on that Sundog platform will override X-Plane's own clouds.

 

What about that possibility of rendering the Moon and other cekestial objects through Sundog? How will the native X-Plane elements be overriden?

 

 

One thing I do not understand is how MdMAXX's new cloud add-on, if based on that Sundog platform will override X-Plane's own clouds.

 

The plugin essentially shuts off X-Plane's drawing of the clouds, but saves the actual weather pattern as set by X-Plane's preferences or real weather. So, instead of seeing X-Plane's clouds drawn, you see Sundog's.