P3DV4 ASCA - ENVTEX - SkyForce comparison

[Tokitaumelie 164]

Hi J

 

Not sure if this will help but if you could give me the location for your screenshots as well as the date for the weather, I could have a look.

Kind regards

 

[Greggy_D 935]

Jeroen,

How about taking pics of plain-jane P3D clouds (without ASCA, ENVTEX, and SF)?  That would be a good indicator if SF was installed or not in your earlier screenshots.

[Murmur 3,941]

24 minutes ago, Greggy_D said:

Jeroen,

How about taking pics of plain-jane P3D clouds (without ASCA, ENVTEX, and SF)?  That would be a good indicator if SF was installed or not in your earlier screenshots.

And also how default clouds compare to payware products.

[pracines 823]

When all is said and done, for THE developer, to not at least render some sort of aid/assistance/support, that is the part I hope most see.  

Correct that is this is not the rex support forum, but why say anything then? At least be a little helpful to show the world that rex customers are valued at least a little. 

An opportunity for excellent customer care/service was totally wasted.

 

 

[Guest]

Since I can't edit the OP anymore I have no choice than to post these shots here. I uninstalled and reinstalled SkyForce and this are the results. They DO look better than the previous SF shots. Unfortunately I can't make comparison screenshots with default anymore because it turns out that SF installs ALL its textures into the sim when you install it, so even before you tell the addon what you want to install or not. I have no clue if those files are SF sets already of some sort of edited default files...

I do know more by now though of how these things work and I've made backups of my texture and cloud folders before I reinstalled SF so they are almost default (at least as far as cloud models are concerned) so I might make some new screenshots of ASCA and ENVTEX too to see if it makes a difference when ALL SF files are gone.

 

[pracines 823]

Still, nice looking but nothing new.  

[Guest]

15 hours ago, pracines said:

Still, nice looking but nothing new.  

More pleasing to the eye though than the other addons. Well, at least pictures 2 and 3. For what that's worth, of course. 

[scottb613 1,187]

Hi Folks,

Concur with 2 and 3 - LOL - 1 not so much...

Regards,
Scott

[b757 43]

As much as I hate to say it, SF is a pretty big let down IMO. While the textures may be somewhat improved, I don’t really see anything “revolutionary” about the software. I have been a huge REX fan since the beginning and when I saw this being developed, I thought this would be a game changer. You would think after rebuilding the weather engine from the ground up, they would figure out how to get rid of spinning 2D textures, but that apparently is still a thing. I think it is partly due to the limiting factors inside P3D itself. I bet if they were able to build this for XP11 that it would be a lot better. Hopefully soon, they will iron out all the bugs and prove that this is the software to beat. For now, I will use the textures but AS for the engine.  Good comparison of the three. 

[mgh_06 0]

I have used ASCA for some time add decided (with quite some scepticism) to try SF. I must say I thing SF is beating ASCA by a fair margin. I do use ASCA along with SF, but SF cloud models (and what else it does) is beyond ASCA.

Variety, cloud structure and size just looks better with SF.

Just my opinion, though.