December 10, 201312 yr Some preview screenshots of an upcoming new cloud rendering engine for X-Plane - what do you think? Just kidding - in fact its not a new cloud rendering engine but rather an old one. I Still have a copy of the X-Plane 10.03 beta 3 demo on my disk that I hadn't fired up for almost two years. I did so today and took a few screenshots. Back then clouds where made of real puffs and in my humble opinion they looked way better then they do now - performance wasn't great though.
December 10, 201312 yr Yup. The more they optimized, the worse the clouds got. You can still find the original demo videos of the clouds on YouTube from when X-Plane 10 was new; and its easy to see how much nicer they were. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
December 10, 201312 yr Back then clouds where made of real puffs and in my humble opinion they looked way better then they do now - performance wasn't great though. There was also an additional slider in the cloud settings, that allowed you to have big cloud puffs/visuals and great performance at the same time. Unfortunately, developers decided to remove it to "make things simpler"... "Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people".
December 10, 201312 yr Unfortunately, developers decided to remove it to "make the sim run better"... Fixed for you
December 11, 201312 yr Commercial Member Some preview screenshots of an upcoming new cloud rendering engine for X-Plane - what do you think? Dude, you just gave me a heart attack. - One of the guys who wrote SkyMaxx Pro
December 11, 201312 yr Hope to see a weather engine like Active Sky Next and a cloud/environment engine like Real Environment X for X-Plane. This will probably require the possibility for 3rd parties to have total control of the weather system, but that is in the plans for Laminar, so let's hope we'll see something like that soon. "Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people".
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