I am absolutely happy with the default MS/Asobo Weather Engine and I haven't seen Live Weather Clouds like these in any other flight simulator. 😃

 

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by OSM

12 minutes ago, OSM said:

I am absolutely happy with the default MS/Asobo Weather Engine and I haven't seen Live Weather Clouds like these in any other flight simulator. 😃

 

I live in FL. I wish I could get those clouds with the default "live" feature.

3 minutes ago, DJJose said:

I live in FL. I wish I could get those clouds with the default "live" feature.

Why not? Here is Live Weather Clouds over Tasmania.

 

Here are some comparison photos taken at the actual location and then in game with REX Weather Force. Time was about 5 minutes apart between being there and getting in game

 

Here is just one from the default MSFS Live Weather at the same location in game

amazing

 

1 hour ago, deepfield said:

Here are some comparison photos taken at the actual location and then in game with REX Weather Force. Time was about 5 minutes apart between being there and getting in game

Here is just one from the default MSFS Live Weather at the same location in game.

So the default MSFS weather is more similar to the actual real life weather? 

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by Ray Proudfoot
Removed multiple embedded screenshots

From a flight to Portland KPDX today MSFS Live weather. Time changed to daylight.

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by Nyxx

I really don’t think MSFS default weather is bad.. It doesn’t have historical weather only..

So we have another REX WX engine that causes abrupt WX changes on the fly??  I just watched through part of JF's Youtube video (see 20:15 mark).  Jeff was for some reason happy and amazed that WX changed abruptly with the plane shaking and sudden overcast showing up from scattered cloud conditions.  He also starts picking up ice and he was not even in visible moisture.  He claims...wow, look we have ice because it's cold!!  He also did not do any comparisons to the default WX so not really a good review at all. Sorry, not understanding the huge leap backwards from what is currently implemented in MSFS where you can see the different WX around you.  I flew from KLAS to KLAX a few days ago in the CJ4 (MSFS live wx) and it was wild how you could see the low layer of fog along the coast from 70-80 miles away with clear conditions to the left and right and scattered clouds behind me.  It does not appear REX WF can accomplish this and puts us all back in weather "bubbles" that change as you fly.  REX Weather Force was being developed for P3D years ago to solve the abrupt WX transitions that were caused by their WX engine in Sky Force.  It was never released and now we have it in MSFS where it causes the same problems it was supposed to fix in P3D!!???  Where are the smooth WX changes that REX claims this has in MSFS??  Why is this claim being made??   Are they referring to smooth changes only within the loaded WX area??  If so, this is very misleading....

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by Flic1

4 hours ago, Bottle said:

I'm at a loss to understand why having a depiction of the realtime weather is so important to some people. I suppose each to their own, but having "it must be real" as a criterion and standard seems a bit odd as you sit in front of your computer making pretend that you're flying a plane. It seems like arguing about angels on the head of a pin to me.

For me, the reason for accurate realtime weather simulation (aside from Vatsim, which I don't use), is that modeling actual weather in real time means we can compare how well the sim is doing to the real thing. It's a reality check on the quality of the modeling.

Without that, all we have are canned "themes" or users adjusting settings that represent someone's personal interpretation of an overcast day or thunderstorms. There is no reality check for quality of the weather model, it can be anything. Clouds made deliberately for cool sunset photos, rainbows, whatever. That may have its place, but you can't verify how good the weather simulation is. You can do that by looking out your window, or by showing the series of comparison photos like those above in the thread.

BTW, can someone answer a question about this REX product? Does it include any user settings to cap maximum wind speed on injected weather? That's an essential feature for me in the areas I like to fly in, and it's available in some other weather injection products like ActiveSkyX. A user-adjustable minimum cloud base is also a nice feature to have, so you can get a taste of real weather and still have it flyable in smaller aircraft. Default MSFS has none of this, and it's the main reason I'd buy a 3rd party weather add-on.

 

I suggest you guys try this : https://unrealweather.blogspot.com/ 

Its technically what REX does only free.

5 minutes ago, roi1862 said:

I suggest you guys try this : https://unrealweather.blogspot.com/ 

Its technically what REX does only free.

This is not true. Weather Force has smoothing and automation and not just METAR matching. 
Also it is an addon that will be scaling up in services.

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by fs1

9 minutes ago, fs1 said:

This is not true. Weather Force has smoothing and automation and not just METAR matching. 

Well this can be added later by the mod 🙂

After watching a couple of YouTube videos and reading nearly every single post in this thread I’m still confused as to what this addon brings to the table in addition to the default weather by Asobo.  Which I might add, since patch 2 has brought the metar close to real time and the weather transitions, cloud shapes and atmospherics are like I have never seen.  Can someone tell me in layman’s terms the USP of weather force??

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by sidfadc

12 minutes ago, Paraffin said:

BTW, can someone answer a question about this REX product? Does it include any user settings to cap maximum wind speed on injected weather? That's an essential feature for me in the areas I like to fly in, and it's available in some other weather injection products like ActiveSkyX. A user-adjustable minimum cloud base is also a nice feature to have, so you can get a taste of real weather and still have it flyable in smaller aircraft. Default MSFS has none of this, and it's the main reason I'd buy a 3rd party weather add-on.

 

From reading through the manual these features are not included.

These caps and historic weather is what I miss weather-wise in MSFS.