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Thunderstorms with blue sky?

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Hello, I have P3D v 3.2, a new install.

The last couple of days I'm doing test flights while taking notes and I've noticed something odd.

First, the setup.

A2A's Cherokee, ASN SP5 on, Track IR, EZCA, and REX 4 HD TD with Soft Clouds.

Same route for testing. EGNX > EGKK > EGLC.

I notice as I fly I have blue sky with white puffy but rain and a thundersorm. It seems like I don't have overcast like I should, it looks beautiful but aren't you supposed to have upper clouds.

In REX ALL I use are three things, Upper Clouds, Lower Clouds, and Lightning, sets 03 - 02 - 14.

Today I deleted all the shaders and let it rebuild.

Thanks.

 

Jack

Jack Sawyer

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Why not post either on the ASN forum here at Avsim, which is their unofficial forum btw, or ask them directly at their official forum at the Hifisim website? Surely you'll get better and quicker support.

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Why not post either on the ASN forum here at Avsim, which is their unofficial forum btw, or ask them directly at their official forum at the Hifisim website? Surely you'll get better and quicker support.

I dunno, I thought this would be a good place, a lot more traffic here it seems.

 

Thanks,

 

Best regards,

 

Jack

Jack Sawyer

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if this is happening everytime there is a TS, something is not set correctly. But, I've been in Hawaii IRL and had bright sunshine, blue sky, no clouds directly overhead and getting rained on with thunder and lightning.

 

That said, LM made some visibility changes in 3.3.5 to address the overcast issue.

 

Turn on volumetric fog in P3D and check your visibility options in ASN. If that fails, open a ticket at ASN tech support at support.hifitechinc.com

 

Vic

 

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I think this is what the REX guys are aiming to address with their new Sky Force 3D software, Jack......

 

Christopher Low

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I think this is what the REX guys are aiming to address with their new Sky Force 3D software, Jack......

 

 

 

What Chris said!  Thunderstorms, overcast, cloud depiction, etc, etc is completely unrealistic in P3D. Some of the more benign weather can be nice but the overall WX modelling and depiction is the weakest area IMO.  I recall much better Thunderstorm depiction in FSX but I think the new AS16 along with REX Skyforce we will see a dramatic improvement.

Eric

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if this is happening everytime there is a TS, something is not set correctly. But, I've been in Hawaii IRL and had bright sunshine, blue sky, no clouds directly overhead and getting rained on with thunder and lightning.

 

That said, LM made some visibility changes in 3.3.5 to address the overcast issue.

 

Turn on volumetric fog in P3D and check your visibility options in ASN. If that fails, open a ticket at ASN tech support at support.hifitechinc.com

 

Vic

 

Noticed this when there is lite thunderstorms.

 

 

I have my settings as rob ainscouphs

 

But I have checked enhanced overcast and major thunderstorms in asn

 

Ditched 4x/sgss on nvidia inspector even tried dsr .Was crippling my performance

refresh rate 30hz

 

Pretty smooth through really heavy thunderstorms now.

 

Have to deal with slight jaggies and shimmering at airports an ut2 aircraft

Until I get a 4K

With 2 Titans sc in sli

 

Cheers

Mike

The problem lies with the abscence of the cirrus overcast layer that comes with real-life bad weather. 

This blocks out the sky. The weather engine of P3D or FSX for that matter, simply doesn't depict this. 

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if this is happening everytime there is a TS, something is not set correctly. But, I've been in Hawaii IRL and had bright sunshine, blue sky, no clouds directly overhead and getting rained on with thunder and lightning.

 

That said, LM made some visibility changes in 3.3.5 to address the overcast issue.

 

Turn on volumetric fog in P3D and check your visibility options in ASN. If that fails, open a ticket at ASN tech support at support.hifitechinc.com

 

Vic

Thanks guys for all your help. I guess I'll have to wait till REX releases those programs.

Also, I do have Volumetric fog turned on and this is what I see.

It must be REX because if I use one of the default storms without REX running it appears like real life.

Jack Sawyer

I'm lost,

Maybe I'm just slow lol

 

But is as 16 needed for Rex sky force?

Or asn sp5 is fine?

I'm assuming I ditch Rex 4 and soft clouds when I purchase rex sky force ?

 

Will we be able to use 4xsgss without performance hit through clouds?

 

Cheers

Mike

I'm lost,

Maybe I'm just slow lol

 

But is as 16 needed for Rex sky force?

Or asn sp5 is fine?

I'm assuming I ditch Rex 4 and soft clouds when I purchase rex sky force ?

 

Will we be able to use 4xsgss without performance hit through clouds?

 

Cheers

Mike

 

Mike - From my understanding SkyForce will work with any WX addons...including default. It also sounds like this will replace Rex4...

 

 

Eric

Eric

i9-12900k, RTX 5070ti OC, 32GB ddr5 5600 RAM, 2TB 980 Pro SSD, Titan 240RX AIO, Samsung CRG90 49", Win 11

Always when there are broken clouds and there is rain I see lighting in the distance.

Someone knows how to stop this ?

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Yes, lightning is sometimes rather unnatural when flying in blue sky with only some clouds visible. Wish we could disable this. Same with rain which appears way to often with sparse cloud coverage.

- Harry 

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Yes, lightning is sometimes rather unnatural when flying in blue sky with only some clouds visible. Wish we could disable this. Same with rain which appears way to often with sparse cloud coverage.

 

In real life, many times,  I have flown in a clear sky, with a few clouds and seen lightning not far away. 

 

 

 

In real life, many times,  I have flown in a clear sky, with a few clouds and seen lightning not far away.

 

But surely not every time ...?

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