7 minutes ago, aktorsyl said:

The 3D Cloud Sync feature of SkyForce is supposed to do just that. See my post above yours though, I don't think it's working as intended at the moment.

 

No it's not. It dynamically injects the cloud textures. Dynamic sky textures will be a feature of Environment Force, as the rex developers said on official forum.

LOL... lookout we got a first poster inbound!

2 minutes ago, timest said:

Your test is flawed. The cloud models in SF were not installed at the time you conducted the test with SF. 

They were. At least set 1 was, anyway.

 

Just now, ryanbatcund said:

LOL... lookout we got a first poster inbound!

Hehe, I'm reading avsim since a looong, looong time, my account is old. I didn't even realise that this was my first post lol :D

2 minutes ago, aktorsyl said:

They were. At least set 1 was, anyway.

 

I'm not sure what you mean by 'set 1'. The cloud models are not in 'sets'. From the pictures you posted, the solution of textures/models are not from Sky Force.

1 minute ago, timest said:

I'm not sure what you mean by 'set 1'. The cloud models are not in 'sets'. From the pictures you posted, the solution of textures/models are not from Sky Force.

Hm, stand by. Trying it again - I'm not discounting the possibility that I screwed up a texture installation, it's pretty late :P Will report back in a sec.

 

Not to knock any statements made thus far... but I'll be purchasing this product later today, and will do a full review by close of business Friday - I'll post a link in this thread.

Best wishes everyone.

 

 

1 minute ago, aktorsyl said:

Hm, stand by. Trying it again - I'm not discounting the possibility that I screwed up a texture installation, it's pretty late :P Will report back in a sec.

 

If you're going to do a proper test with the other weather engine, simply go into Sky Force/3D Models/ and install them. Then install textures. Disable the SF weather engine, and leave SF open. Then open the other weather engine and conduct the tests. Do not at any time open ASCA.

20 minutes ago, timest said:

Your test is flawed. The cloud models in SF were not installed at the time you conducted the test with SF. 

Why don't you, REX, create some videos that actually demonstrate what SF is capable of?

4 minutes ago, DaveCT2003 said:

Not to knock any statements made thus far... but I'll be purchasing this product later today, and will do a full review by close of business Friday - I'll post a link in this thread.

Best wishes everyone.

 

 

Looking forward to it! Since you were a beta tester of SkyForce I think your review may be of great interest because you probably know how everything works and what the options are. I read too many 'reviews' of people who clearly have no idea what they are doing or how SkyForce is supposed to work and that isn't helping to make a proper decision. (I wanted to add a winking smiley here but the forum software is utterly sllllooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww today so I will post it without one.)

5 minutes ago, J van E said:

the forum software is utterly sllllooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww today

Oh good I'm not the only one. I thought I went back to 1994 instead of 2018.

I hear keys rattling.

8 minutes ago, J van E said:

Looking forward to it! Since you were a beta tester of SkyForce I think your review may be of great interest because you probably know how everything works and what the options are. I read too many 'reviews' of people who clearly have no idea what they are doing or how SkyForce is supposed to work and that isn't helping to make a proper decision. (I wanted to add a winking smiley here but the forum software is utterly sllllooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww today so I will post it without one.)

Just a small correction.  I was not a Beta Tester for Sky Force. I was accepted as a Beta Tester for it, and I Beta Tested other REX products, and had long detailed technical discussions with Reed about Sky Force for 2 or more years. I asked to see the program many times, I was supposed to Beta Test it.  But I learned of it's release the same way that everyone else did.

My relationship with REX has been failing apart over the past 6 months for many fundamental concerns (which I won't air in public, and one shouldn't based a purchase decision on), and when I learned that they'd released the software without so much as giving me as a Beta Tester a look at the product, I contacted Reed, who then offered to provide me with a release copy.  I thanked him, and declined, and severed all ties to REX.

I'll give Sky Force a really good and fair review, and no NDA applies as REX broke their agreement with me thus rendering it null and void - which honestly doesn't matter, but I thought the community might judge the review as unbiased knowing that.

Best wishes.

 

Apologies for the mistaken screenshot - honest mistake. The ASCA screenshots were correct, the SkyForce ones were not. This time I closed down P3D, wiped the shader cache, restored the original textures from the backup, and then installed the 3d models, after which I installed the textures (I chose texture set 10 for clouds).

Here are the results. First one is on the ground, the other two are at 10,000ft.

These look absolutely amazing. But a quick couple of questions for @timest: I assume the models are injected automatically as the weather changes during your flight - but the textures are "static", correct? So you choose the texture set that looks best and that stays as is until you manually change it? Secondly, is there any way I can make that anvil look a little more "sharp-edged" (personal preference) - I mean, is that something I can do on my side?

Here's the pics. Sorry for the mistake earlier, editing the original post now too:

 

Tim

I tried posting at your forum but I can't get my password activation email (I'm guessing your servers are busy).  When I download the REX download manager I get the app hanging.

Ever seen anything like this?

REXapphang by ryan b, on Flickr