February 3, 20188 yr I currently have REX Texture Direct w/ Soft Clouds, and am considering a purchase of the newly released REX Sky Force 3D. I wanted to ask, if anyone has an opinion as to how much better the clouds are in Sky Force than in Texture Direct, and if it's worth buying Sky Force if I already have Texture Direct. Also, does anyone know if REX Texture Direct works with Sky Force at all, such as Sky Force using some of the Texture Direct sky textures? Or does Sky Force completely override the Texture Direct sky textures? Thanks very much in advance. Caleb Byers PC: HP Envy 750, Intel Core i7 6700 @ 3.4 GHz (max 4.0 GHz), 24GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 745 with 4GB Memory, 2TB SSHD Windows 10 Home 64 bit. Simulators: Prepar3D v3.4, Prepar3D v4.5, FSX:SE, FSX:Gold Edition Using the FSX Deluxe Edition SDK SP2 for development.
February 3, 20188 yr Some will say it is worth the purchase, others will say it isn’t. It is all in the eye of the beholder. What I can say is that SF brings a lot of new structures (shapes of clouds) to the sim. The question is if that is worth it to you. Concerning the skies: SF can’t do anything with the TD sky textures but you could disable the sky textures in SF and keep on using TD for that. Although I doubt if the TD skies are any better than the SF skies. TD is worth using anyway because SF mainly comes with clouds and skies (and related) textures and not some of the other things that TD offers, like waters and runways.
February 3, 20188 yr As J said, TD offers additional texture choices (mainly ground-based) that SF does not. However, if you do decide to get SF you can uninstall Soft Clouds as all the SC textures are already included with SF. Cheers! MSI Pro Z690-A DDR4 | i5 13600KF | G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB 3600MHz | RTX 3080 (12GB) | Samsung 980 M.2 NVMe 500GB | Samsung 980 M.2 NVMe 1TB | Samsung 850EVO 500GB | Crucial P3+ 2TB NVMe | 2TB Seagate HDD | Deepcool AK500 CPU Cooler | Thrustmaster T16000M HOTAS | CH Yoke | Various Winctrl hardware | 21:9 1440p UW monitor | Win 11 23H2 build | MSFS2020 | Tony K.
February 4, 20188 yr Author Thanks everyone. I am still thinking about it. I am still open to suggestions here. I see what you mean about TD having water and runway textures etc. that SF does not have. I should have thought more about it and not bought Soft Clouds knowing that SF was going to come out soon. Thanks. Caleb Byers PC: HP Envy 750, Intel Core i7 6700 @ 3.4 GHz (max 4.0 GHz), 24GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 745 with 4GB Memory, 2TB SSHD Windows 10 Home 64 bit. Simulators: Prepar3D v3.4, Prepar3D v4.5, FSX:SE, FSX:Gold Edition Using the FSX Deluxe Edition SDK SP2 for development.
February 22, 20188 yr On 2/4/2018 at 3:16 PM, caleb1 said: Thanks everyone. I am still thinking about it. I am still open to suggestions here. I see what you mean about TD having water and runway textures etc. that SF does not have. I should have thought more about it and not bought Soft Clouds knowing that SF was going to come out soon. Thanks. The new Rex SkyForce 3D includes soft clouds? I'm surprised they didn't make a bigger deal out of that on their marketing page for Rex SkyForce 3D.
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