I need a weather engine!!!!

[Dutch1 24]

I have P3D V4.1, I am using REX4 Texture Direct/Soft Clouds/ Enhanced Edition. I need a weather engine to go along with Rex. I am so confused about the new product Rex SkyForce. Is this a weather engine? I just want a program that injects weather into my sim,, that will use my REX4 Texture Direct/Soft Clouds/ Enhanced Edition texture settings.

 

 

Thanks, Dutch1

 

[Denco 48]

All I can personally recommend is Active Sky. If you're already using Rex texture direct/soft clouds I would personally hold on with REX Sky Force or Active Sky ASCA until you're absolutely sure you need a cloud replacement addon.

[mtrainer 136]

Active Sky 16 for Prepar3d P3Ev4 for me w/ REX Direct s/ w Soft Clouds seems to work perfectly- old enough to have all the bugs worked out and works just as expected / advertised.

Mark

[TheBoom 31]

Nothing beats AS at the moment plus it's on sale until 3rd Jan. In fact, all Hifi products currently are.

After following the Skyforce 3D debacle thread for the whole day and watching a few vids, I just bought ASCA for $16.

Edit : Just thought I should point out to you that you would need ASP3Dv4 for P3Dv4 and not AS16 as it won't work. Don't buy the wrong product.

[curt1 79]

I like Pilot's FS Global Real Weather aka FSGRW.  It's a very simple and easy to use weather engine that satisfies all my needs.  It's underrated in the fs community, but I love it.

[Dexter1979 101]

7 minutes ago, curt1 said:

I like Pilot's FS Global Real Weather aka FSGRW.  It's a very simple and easy to use weather engine that satisfies all my needs.  It's underrated in the fs community, but I love it.

Same here.... I moved from AS/ASCA to FSGRW/REX4 and I’m very happy... My main complain with AS is that the sky is always full of CB and TCU even in a nice day with stratus clouds... too much eye candy and less realism.... just my 2 cents...

[n99wb 10]

I use fsxwx. It's free and worthy of a try.

[69Yanks 33]

On 1/2/2018 at 11:29 PM, n99wb said:

I use fsxwx. It's free and worthy of a try.

Free fsxwx with skyforce3D looks great and works fine. 

[Guest]

Active Sky. It's the market leader and for a reason. Others can be interesting too but may lack options or are less supported (like for weather radars or flightplanners or ATC addons). If you want to be sure you're weather engine is constantly being held up to date, has all the options you want and is supported by other developers, get Active Sky.

[scottb613 1,188]

Hi Folks,

Regards,
Scott

[kurtb 121]

50 minutes ago, J van E said:

Active Sky. It's the market leader and for a reason. Others can be interesting too but may lack options or are less supported (like for weather radars or flightplanners or ATC addons). If you want to be sure you're weather engine is constantly being held up to date, has all the options you want and is supported by other developers, get Active Sky.

there is nothing wrong with Skyforce-it is on par- so if you don't own it don't make a remark of "It's the market leader and for a reason" 

[Glynn 405]

42 minutes ago, kurtb said:

there is nothing wrong with Skyforce-it is on par- so if you don't own it don't make a remark of "It's the market leader and for a reason" 

How do you enjoy the stutters on weather reload ?, which Hifi Sim fixed years ago.

Active sky is the market leader by a very large margin, REX have been trying to  make a decent weather engine for years now, trust me I have bought all of them over the years going as far back as Weather Maker Pro in 2006 and they have never been able to compete with Hifi Sim products.

[snapshot21 254]

54 minutes ago, kurtb said:

there is nothing wrong with Skyforce-it is on par- so if you don't own it don't make a remark of "It's the market leader and for a reason" 

Active sky is miles better at this point.

REX has a "Weather Force" in development at the moment. I believe that would use a custom simconnect, so hopefully they can get closer to AS with that.

[Gregg_Seipp 568]

Active Sky:

• No abrupt weather refreshes
• More accurate global weather even over oceans
• Smooth upper level wind transitions

SkyForce

• Much better looking clouds. 
• More ominous looking weather in general

EDIT:  I have both. 

[Bobsk8 12,702]

AS 16 is the gold standard. Anything else is a poor substitute.