Just wanted to know how they work together and did the following.

Run SF3D (default settings, weather engine active). Open P3Dv4.1 and loaded RA Piston Duke @ EDDM (9 am, local time) and saved the flight situation. TakeOff at RW 08L and climbed until 8000 then left turn dir 120 ° climbing until 12500 ft.

Four hours later (local time 1 pm), I started  ASP4/ASCA and closed ASCA manually. ASP4 is set to historical weather (force to sim time). Then I started REX SF3D and disabled its weather engine. Booted P3D an loaded the before saved flight situation. After weather injection (REX SF3D active, but w/o its weather engine!). Then I repeated my flight and had pretty the same weather experience as I had four hours before.

This is exactly how I wished it to be. For sure, further testing with historical weather at different places at different sim time have to follow to get the whole picture.

Did you have the Real Time Sync Mode activated and did it work properly?

 

I am also very interested in this combination and I wonder if the Real Time Sync Mode of Skyforce works well with historic weather by Active Sky.

Already any experience by anyone?

1 minute ago, RALF9636 said:

Did you have the Real Time Sync Mode activated and did it work properly?

Yes, Real Time Sync Mode  was active and It seems that it works properly. But to be sure we need some further testings

Just now, Nemo said:

Yes, Real Time Sync Mode  was active and It seems that it works properly. But to be sure we need some further testings

Thanks! Really hope it does work.

Have you experienced the ASP4 in-cloud haze effect while using the RSF clouds? I have not seen it yet.

2 minutes ago, jabloomf1230 said:

Have you experienced the ASP4 in-cloud haze effect while using the RSF clouds? I have not seen it yet.

Not sure about this. Maybe be we have to go deeper into SF3D settings, but I have not yet touched any, except the weather engine (to disable it).

9 minutes ago, jabloomf1230 said:

Have you experienced the ASP4 in-cloud haze effect while using the RSF clouds? I have not seen it yet.

I did see the ASP4 in-cloud-motion-effect. But I turned it off because the RSF clouds seem to already offer a 3-D-effect to a certain amount. That also needs some more testing.

Were the clouds and "immersion" factor much improved over ASCA?

48 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

Did you have the Real Time Sync Mode activated and did it work properly?

 

What I'd like know is if the results are realistic: it may work, but what's the use if what you see doesn't resemble real life at that moment. But anyway, thanks for the report, Harry: if I am going to buy SF it will be for use with AS.

So far I am really happy with this combination. I just finished a longer scenic "historical" flight with my A2A C172 in the Friday Harbor - Anacortes - Orcas Island area (sim time June 10, 2016, 10-12 am). I am deeply impressed and I also saw some higher Cumulus walls what I haven't seen since longer time. Performance at Anacortes area was better than expected even with 2048 HD cloud textures.

My first verdict: The combination REX SF3D - HiFi ASP4 is a winner!

Just one question, is there a possibility to avoid ASCA being automatically loaded during ASP4 start? Currently, I don't want to uninstall it.

16 minutes ago, Nemo said:

So far I am really happy with this combination. I just finished a longer scenic "historical" flight with my A2A C172 in the Friday Harbor - Anacortes - Orcas Island area (sim time June 10, 2016, 10-12 am). I am deeply impressed and I also saw some higher Cumulus walls what I haven't seen since longer time. Performance at Anacortes area was better than expected even with 2048 HD cloud textures.

My first verdict: The combination REX SF3D - HiFi ASP4 is a winner!

Just one question, is there a possibility to avoid ASCA being automatically loaded during ASP4 start? Currently, I don't want to uninstall it.

I agree. I used this setup last night and I was very impressed.

The P3D haze effect worked just fine.

I wondered about having ASCA not auto load. There must be a way. I just closed it after it started up.

I plan to buy SF and use with AS2016 so this is very useful. Thank you. The SF clouds look better then any other cloud product to me so i want the best of both worlds and this seems to be it.

42 minutes ago, Nemo said:

So far I am really happy with this combination. I just finished a longer scenic "historical" flight with my A2A C172 in the Friday Harbor - Anacortes - Orcas Island area (sim time June 10, 2016, 10-12 am). I am deeply impressed and I also saw some higher Cumulus walls what I haven't seen since longer time. Performance at Anacortes area was better than expected even with 2048 HD cloud textures.

My first verdict: The combination REX SF3D - HiFi ASP4 is a winner!

Just one question, is there a possibility to avoid ASCA being automatically loaded during ASP4 start? Currently, I don't want to uninstall it.

I didn't find a way. I started with just disabling all the options within ASCA.

Meanwhile I uninstalled ASCA. I am quite impressed by the new cloud structures by Skyforce. Definitely an improvement. I'm not missing ASCA so far.

Let's forget about the so-called "Weather Engine" that comes with Skyforce and let's just enjoy the cloud structures and textures - and use Active Sky for weather, like it has always been... ;-)

48 minutes ago, RichieFly said:

I wondered about having ASCA not auto load. There must be a way. I just closed it after it started up.

What Ralf said in the post above about disabling all options is probably the correct solution.

But if, for some reason, you really want ASCA to not load at all, you can also simple rename the ASCA exe file. AS16 will just not find it and not load it without any other problems or messages (i've done that in the past and it works without probs).

AS Cloud Art.exe   --> AS Cloud Art.bak

Juste rename it to the original name when/if you decide to use it again.

1 hour ago, Bad_T said:

What Ralf said in the post above about disabling all options is probably the correct solution.

But if, for some reason, you really want ASCA to not load at all, you can also simple rename the ASCA exe file. AS16 will just not find it and not load it without any other problems or messages (i've done that in the past and it works without probs).

AS Cloud Art.exe   --> AS Cloud Art.bak

Juste rename it to the original name when/if you decide to use it again.

Good idea. Thanks.