July 26, 20169 yr Commercial Member Anyone have Ultra Weather 1.50, is it like Skymax or? Paul Grubich 2017 - Professional texture artist painting virtual aircraft I love. Be sure to check out my aged cockpits for the A2A B-377, B-17 and Connie at Flightsim.com and Avsim library
July 27, 20169 yr Both serve the same purpose (enhance cloud representation and sky colors). Skymaxx uses volumetric 3D clouds, while Ultra Weather uses textures. It's up to you to decide which one you like better, there's no clear winner here. I am back to using default clouds if that's of any help for you :wink:
July 27, 20169 yr Checking the store pictures of the product I have to say that the clouds look awful. ASUS Maximus VIII Hero Alpha, Intel Core i7 6700K 4.5GHz, Corsair Vengeance Black LPX 32GB, MSI 5060Ti 16G Ventus 3X, Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD
July 27, 20169 yr Checking the store pictures of the product I have to say that the clouds look awful. Lol.so true.
July 27, 20169 yr Anyone have Ultra Weather 1.50, is it like Skymax or? SMP v3.2 replaces XPlane's weather engine. UW is a set of replacement textures and shaders that works with XPlanes weather engine. SMP along with RWC and FSGRW is still the best way to enhance the clouds and weather in XP. It also comes with some sky textures, but I prefer freeware available at the org. There are some youtube videos on UW & SMP v3. They should give you an idea of how the clouds and textures compare. Enjoy! MSFS
July 27, 20169 yr SMP v3.2 replaces XPlane's weather engine. It just replaces the cloud rendering and sky colors. The weather engine is still either x-planes own, a plugin like NOAA or an external engine like FSGRW. Skymaxx itself (with or without RWC) does nothing with the weather. It just displays whatever is set or injected. :smile:
July 27, 20169 yr It just replaces the cloud rendering and sky colors. The weather engine is still either x-planes own, a plugin like NOAA or an external engine like FSGRW. Skymaxx itself (with or without RWC) does nothing with the weather. It just displays whatever is set or injected. :smile: Thanks for your clarification. I know that it's NOT a weather engine. I should have wrote: SkyMaxx Pro v3 - A revolutionary weather rendering engine for X-Plane 10! MSFS
July 28, 20169 yr No problem. :smile: It's just that many people get the impression that Skymaxx, UltraweatherXP etc. serve the same purpose as weather engines like ASN for FSX. I just wanted potential customers to know that these addons for now only change the looks but not the feel, so to say.
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