5 hours ago, djbully said:

I’m using asp4 with SF & EF. Personally I keep the weather smoothing box ticked, even though it says to untick with active sky. I find I get much smoother transitions with the weather this way. I tried both, and with it unticked, you get the famous active sky pop up effect. I don’t notice anything like that with weather smoothing ticked. 

 

Try it and see what you think! 

I will try it thank you.

Thanks, guys.   Yes, I will start Active Sky 1st, then minimize Sky Force only when I change the textures or cloud formations, then start P3d.  I do not have Environment Force.  I use REX Textures as well.

As you can tell by these responses, many simmers are somewhat confused and concerned about how to make these addons work to their fullest.  It can truly be a challenge to activate these sophisticated programs as the developer intended.  Manuals don't always help with the many possible combinations of programs working together.

Stan

 

PS......By the way, as soon as I clicked on SkyForce TODAY (May 9), a MAJOR UPDATE was announced.  The update totally removed the version I bought yesterday with a new one.  I'll now go see what seems to be new.

 

Edited May 9, 20197 yr by spilok

4 hours ago, spilok said:

I use REX Textures as well.

Not needed if you are using REX SF.

42 minutes ago, DJJose said:

Not needed if you are using REX SF.

Maybe not, but REX Texture Direct also deals with runway markings, wet runways, and runway lights.  Correct?

12 minutes ago, spilok said:

Maybe not, but REX Texture Direct also deals with runway markings, wet runways, and runway lights.  Correct?

Yes, but for default airports. I don't fly into default airports so I would not use any of my precious SSD space to REX TD. There's also a bug that affects runway lighting in P3D v4. Light color goes unchanged. It was something I reported in the REX forum in the very beginning. I doubt that it has been fixed.

Edited May 9, 20197 yr by DJJose

Thanks.  Deleted REX TD and things look much better (no cloud conflicts) and smoother.  FPS seem a little up as well.  18 gigs saved!

 

Stan

If you’ll guys forgive by asking this a little of topic :

what is the disadvantage by lauching ASP4 /ASCA after P3D has been loaded ?

( I use a multi pc WidevieW setup and have multiple ASP4 which I start after everything in my real size cockpit has been loaded, so the weather updates execute at the same time ... )

15 hours ago, bean_sprout said:

Since I installed the cloud textures and don't use the weather engine I never run SF for a flight.

Good when you use EF as you don't need also SF to run.

Bad when you don't use EF because you loose the cloud MODEL sync function of SF.