Hi I've seen several post that Opus FSI is working in V5. Anyone care to share there experience compare to active sky? I haven't use Opus from since back in fsx days. I do remember it was very well supported in our flight sim community. I am willing to give it a try until active sky is ready which might take a while so I've herd. 

One cannot compare to active sky as they have no V5 version yet. As to V4.5 - the answer is obvious - there's a reason AS is the leading weather engine, simply it's better.

However, if you need real weather right now in V5 and Opus works, it's certainly better than nothing.

Vic

4 minutes ago, vgbaron said:

One cannot compare to active sky as they have no V5 version yet. As to V4.5 - the answer is obvious - there's a reason AS is the leading weather engine, simply it's better.

However, if you need real weather right now in V5 and Opus works, it's certainly better than nothing.

Vic

Thanks , you are correct about not comparing it since Active Sky is not available for V5 yet. I am really looking into purchasing opus for the time being. The price seem very fair . 

Several people have been using the free FSXWX weather injector, which actually works quite well. As a long-time Active Sky user, I wasn’t really aware of it until seeing it mentioned here in the forums. It even does upper winds based on downloaded NOAA Grib data. It won’t load an entire flight plan, but you can specify departure and destination airports.

FSXWX does require replacing a couple of default P3D weather system files (after first re-naming the originals so they can be restored later). It is also recommended to reduce the turbulence factor in Prepar3d.cfg from 1.0 to 0.8

I believe it requires FSUIPC to be installed, but I’m not certain about that.

Stephan at Opus noticed that the injected surface winds were constantly shifting direction with his beta P3DV5 software, and I saw exactly the same thing in FSXWX. In the FSXWX interface, I set all “DWC” options to zero. In P3D, I unchecked “turbulence and thermals affect aircraft” in the weather settings menu, and set the “rate at which weather changes” slider to zero, and the wind shifts appear to have stopped.

However, the wind direction appears to be about 30 to 40 degrees offset from the METAR report consistently. Other than that, wind velocity, clouds, pressure and temperature all appear to be injected correctly.

It’s no Active Sky, but better than nothing and is free. If you Google FSXWX, it will take you to the developer’s web site.

Edited April 21, 20206 yr by JRBarrett

OpusFSI works but with limitations...as they tell it, the sim isn't respecting wind direction being set through the interface, and the winds continuously cycle back and forth.

I read that together with not seeing even a beta from ActiveSky yet as meaning that the P3Dv5 weather interface is broken badly enough that everyone is now waiting for a hotfix to (hopefully) fix things enough to allow wx injection to work properly.

I'm still hanging fire on v5 until that gets fixed.  It took a long time to get the wx squared away in P3Dv3-4, and I'm not willing to take a huge step back just to be an early adopter.

Regards

 

With my multi view , multi pc cockpit I used FS Global Real World as my weather engine.

It was very good and only a few settings needed and it worked great and little load on the pc’s.

It also was the only weather engine that had a Networkbridge so weather and clouds were synchronized over a network of View pc’s.
Also FSGRW could be used as a stand-alone weather engine like AS  REX and Opus.

At this moment I am beta testing a P3Dv5 version and it is working great again. First the main program has been made compatible and with today’s beta weather/clouds are sync’d over the network once again.

As FSGRW is less known than the others I thought that I would mention it as it is the one that I use and you can see it in action in all my vids..

Here in V4 but in V5 it looks the same :

 

Edited April 21, 20206 yr by GSalden

12 minutes ago, JRBarrett said:

Several people have been using the free FSXWX weather injector, which actually works quite well. As a long-time Active Sky user, I wasn’t really aware of it until seeing it mentioned here in the forums. It even does upper winds based on downloaded NOAA Grib data. It won’t load an entire flight plan, but you can specify departure and destination airports.

 

I've also herd of this as well. Now I don't know if I should wait or not. I want to avoid making any changes in p3d that later I might forget that I made changes and when these new installer start releasing then its a different problem. From what active sky describe is not an easy task as many members thought in our community. I wouldn't mind if they took their time before releasing.

4 minutes ago, GSalden said:

With my multi view , multi pc cockpit I used FS Global Real World as my weather engine.

 

As FSGRW is less known than the others I thought that I would mention it as it is the one that I use and you can see it in action in all my vids..

Here in V4 but in V5 it looks the same :

 

 I will have a look at their website now. Thank you . I was always wondering how you got the brightness and dark level in clouds that really looks like the clouds outside my house right now. I really like how the upper part of the cloud is bright and the lower has that dark shadow like look. Very nice to see . 

10 minutes ago, mr340 said:

 I will have a look at their website now. Thank you . I was always wondering how you got the brightness and dark level in clouds that really looks like the clouds outside my house right now. I really like how the upper part of the cloud is bright and the lower has that dark shadow like look. Very nice to see . 

Note : the weather is made by FSGRW but the clouds effects are because of my PTA presets ...

Unfortunately at this moment there are no plans to upgrade PTA for V5.

I will however look into the Shaders to see if certain expressions are the same in V5 as in V4. 
But that might take several weeks/months as I am now spending my spare time with installing scenery Addons the xml way.

I made a fake and almost empty V5 so when an Addon installs the cfg way I can check where files are being put. That I can use to make xml entries.

Everything will be installed outside V5 on my pc’s.

I don’t expect active sky until at least a week or two after the hotfix drops as there are major issues they would have to work around or have LM fix so I agree with why we haven’t heard much from devs is they all need hot fixes. Back to 4.5 for now

2 minutes ago, GSalden said:

 

Everything will be installed outside V5 on my pc’s.

That is exactly what I am doing right now. The p3d default shader looks good to my eyes . I was very impress.

2 minutes ago, mr340 said:

That is exactly what I am doing right now. The p3d default shader looks good to my eyes . I was very impress.

The default Shaders look good but imho a bit too Polaroid.

That is where Shader mod apps come in : different Displays, different Display settings and different opinions..

I am sure there will be Shader mod apps after the LM Hotfix.

 

Go to Opus website he has a thread on v5.

The problem I had with FSGRW, (even in fully-functional P3DV4), is that when the “cloudscape“ changes enroute, (due to an updated METAR), it changes instantly with a noticeable flicker. AS used to do that in early incarnations, but in recent years, they have found a way to prevent that from happening. Changes in cloud depictions with AS are normally slow and smooth.

From what I gather reading LM’s forums, two main differences in P3DV5’s weather implementation that differ from previous versions is that there can be only one layer producing precipitation, and discrete cloud layers cannot overlap. (The tops of a lower layer cannot be higher that the bases of the next higher layer).

It may be that these restrictions only apply when using True Sky and Enhanced Atmospherics, but if they now apply to the default (non True Sky) weather system, it is going to reduce the ability of programs like Actuve Sky to produce complex, multi-layer cloud depictions in the same way they have done in previous versions of P3D.

18 minutes ago, GSalden said:

 

I am sure there will be Shader mod apps after the LM Hotfix.

 

I'm sure Rex might be working on something with EF .

 

19 minutes ago, reecemj said:

Go to Opus website he has a thread on v5.

I did but I just wanted to see how many are using Opus. This thread helping me also in seeing other option for the time being.