Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

The AVSIM Community

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Freeware volumetric clouds experimental release

Featured Replies

Oh wow, I was just browsing the X-Plane subforum and noticed that there's already a thread for Enhanced Cloudscapes.

The new beta 2020.11.24, released 11 days ago, is available and can be downloaded from GitHub. It's also available for download at x-plane.org forum and Threshold.

Here are the links for download:

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/65005-enhanced-cloudscapes/
https://forum.thresholdx.net/files/file/698-enhanced-cloudscapes/
https://github.com/FarukEroglu2048/Enhanced-Cloudscapes

PC specs: i5-12400F, RTX 3070 Ti and 32 GB of RAM.

Simulators I'm using: X-Plane 12, Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and FlightGear.

  • Replies 145
  • Views 27.8k
  • Created
  • Last Reply
11 hours ago, BiologicalNanobot said:

Oh wow, I was just browsing the X-Plane subforum and noticed that there's already a thread for Enhanced Cloudscapes.

The new beta 2020.11.24, released 11 days ago, is available and can be downloaded from GitHub. It's also available for download at x-plane.org forum and Threshold.

Here are the links for download:

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/65005-enhanced-cloudscapes/
https://forum.thresholdx.net/files/file/698-enhanced-cloudscapes/
https://github.com/FarukEroglu2048/Enhanced-Cloudscapes

Did you ever fix the AA issues I showed above?  (the jaggy lines)

My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL |
| Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |

 

 

56 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

Did you ever fix the AA issues I showed above?  (the jaggy lines)

In the latest version, there is a settings menu which has a settings slider that allows you to reduce / eliminate jagged lines, but at the cost of losing FPS.

15 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

Did you ever fix the AA issues I showed above?  (the jaggy lines)

To some degree, but not fully. Sadly it's a really hard issue to solve, and even trueSKY on P3D has a similar issue.

PC specs: i5-12400F, RTX 3070 Ti and 32 GB of RAM.

Simulators I'm using: X-Plane 12, Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and FlightGear.

  • 3 weeks later...
  • Author

Windows build of my fork should now be working

https://github.com/mSparks43/Enhanced-Cloudscapes-Engine

installation should just be to copy the Enhanced_Cloudscapes_Engine into your plugins directory, probably going to open a support channel for this version on the Go Ahead discord, all credit/patreon membership to BiologicalNanobot and the EC discord

This does the

timer is currently set to 300 seconds, you can change that at the top of smooth_weather.lua

I'm using it in combination with the NOAA plugin

https://x-plane.joanpc.com/plugins/xpgfs-noaa-weather

Yes, it does support VR. Windows and Linux (no mac because it needs GLSL4.5 and mac doesn't)

Edited by mSparks

AutoATC Developer

@mSparks is this an update, I use it with SMP and it works fine.

  • Author
1 hour ago, mjrhealth said:

@mSparks is this an update, I use it with SMP and it works fine.

Its a different version, main things it adds is smooth transitions from one weather state to another (so no more insta changes) - the main thing that always annoyed me about xp weather - and also dynamic setting of the resolution ratio so render quality is reduced if gpu time starts struggling (with a lower fps target for external views)

AutoATC Developer

2 hours ago, mSparks said:

Its a different version, main things it adds is smooth transitions from one weather state to another (so no more insta changes) - the main thing that always annoyed me about xp weather - and also dynamic setting of the resolution ratio so render quality is reduced if gpu time starts struggling (with a lower fps target for external views)

Ta will give it a shot. dont have much issues with the other ver, but would love smoother transitions its 8/ 2020  - latest??

Edited by mjrhealth

  • Author
54 minutes ago, mjrhealth said:

8/ 2020  - latest??

Latest release of Enhanced Cloudscapes is Beta 2020.11.24

I renamed my branch Enhanced Cloudscapes Engine to distinguish it, and the actual cloud drawing code there is partway between Alpha 2020.08.16 and Beta 2020.11.24, currently missing the nice anvil code but also the slightly bugged VR in the current Beta

AutoATC Developer

7 hours ago, mSparks said:

Latest release of Enhanced Cloudscapes is Beta 2020.11.24

I renamed my branch Enhanced Cloudscapes Engine to distinguish it, and the actual cloud drawing code there is partway between Alpha 2020.08.16 and Beta 2020.11.24, currently missing the nice anvil code but also the slightly bugged VR in the current Beta

Now im confused how to get your beta... im not that smart. Flying Durban to capetown with some nice clouds underneath as far as eye can se fps 34 but thats not bad with so much clouds

Edited by mjrhealth

Figurerd it out will try it in morning

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.