Are any DX10 users out there using REX4 water animations?  As usual their promo stuff shows the best of the best, but overall with your experiences do the DX10 water animations:

• Look great?
• Have the wind sensitive whitecaps?
• Have no or very light impact of FPS?

Currently using REXE overdrive, but have abandoned using everything except its clouds, sun and runway/taxiway textures since I find that all other textures/animations are either worse, or at least no better than, the stock FSX DX10 textures/animations.  I'm hoping that REX4 brings to FSX more DX10 worthy stuff than REXE did; if it does, I got my cursor on the 'buy now' button. BTW, for DX9 REXE was completely wonderful (but those days are now long gone).

ASNext, Rod - still with REX E OD clouds, but AS "Frequency" water.

 

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And how about the colour? Which is too blue with rex 4? 

You can tune the colour to an extent. The colour you see is a blend of the base texture and the sky/clouds plus some other lighting factors. The two fresnel factors define the amount of sky colour when looking straight down (min) and looking along (max). So adjusting the two factors down 0.1 will shift the colour towards the base colour.

Thanks for the reply! Sorry it was my fault. Forget that sweetfx was enabled, on which i enabled a blue-ish tint, for the winter. Which also applies on the water color unfortunately.

Thanks for your response on my topic Paul.  Too bad I don't own AS2012.  I think I'll repost this in the FSX forum, though I bet its silence there will also be as deafening.

 

I too use ASN which, just like the DX10 Fixer, is a complete 'game (err..sim) changer' for FSX.  One huge ASN feature is its cloud 'load leveling', which takes pity my lowly 660 ti by injecting only the clouds which are visually meaningful for your altitude and weather condition.  I now can fly in weather that use to bring my system onto its fps knees (at least with the AA setting I want to use)...and I'm REAALLY stoked about this.  Also its accurate renditions are a thing of beauty; 3d clouds now really seem 3d.  Bush pilot heaven!

Thanks for your response on my topic Paul.  Too bad I don't own AS2012.  I think I'll repost this in the FSX forum, though I bet its silence there will also be as deafening.

 

I too use ASN which, just like the DX10 Fixer, is a complete 'game (err..sim) changer' for FSX.  One huge ASN feature is its cloud 'load leveling', which takes pity my lowly 660 ti by injecting only the clouds which are visually meaningful for your altitude and weather condition.  I now can fly in weather that use to bring my system onto its fps knees (at least with the AA setting I want to use)...and I'm REAALLY stoked about this.  Also its accurate renditions are a thing of beauty; 3d clouds now really seem 3d.  Bush pilot heaven!

 

Where is this load leveling feature (or is it part of the cloud layers menu). 

Where is this load leveling feature (or is it part of the cloud layers menu). 

 

Under Settings>Cloud options

adjust 'Minimum cloud draw distance' and 'Maximum cloud draw distance'

Each of these setting explains how to use them when they're selected.

 

I've had excellent results using this; IMO it's really excellent feature which I've wanted for a really long time.  Essentially what (I think) it does is dynamic adjust the cloud radius in FSX.  In the past I'd have to manually do this for heavy weather, which unfortunately had the side effect of resetting other fsx.cfg tweaks (most annoying).