37 minutes ago, Baber20 said:

Will it fix the unlimited visibility issue plaguing the sim ? Right now the live weather doesn't generate enough haze and has no effect on aerosol density. Because of this, we have infinite visibility all the time. Also there is no slider to adjust the visibility in the sim There are multiple threads on this on the official forum.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/visibility-still-not-depicted/281196/34

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/visibility-still-not-depicted/281196/34

"Also there is no slider to adjust the visibility in the sim..."

but... thats exactly what aerosol density does

Reading through the manual I stumbled over this:

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Weather synthesis means that the weather engine reads the location of the aircraft, selects the closest metar data report, and then decodes and injects that weather into the flight simulator. The initial load is instantaneous, but all consecutive injections are smooth and spread over time.

That sounds like REX just takes the local METAR and injects that weather globally. And when moving from one METAR station to another the weather transitions globally to the weather of that METAR station. That would mean that the weather would look the same up to the horizon in each direction which would be a major step backwards from the default weather which is so immersive because you can see different weather in every direction up to 200 miles away.

I hope my conclusion is wrong.

 

Does this mean there are huge FPS drops when we want seamless streaming weather like we get as default with no FPS lose?

"Enable Instant Weather Load Causes the weather engine to load the weather instantaneously and not gradually over time. Use this option to counter heavy FPS issues."

Instant weather redrawing take us back to FSX days.

Edited September 26, 20205 yr by Nyxx

Looking forward to checking it out when it's available.

Believe I shall wait and see what other vendors have in store. My experience has been, though Rex clouds are fantastic in FS, their weather engine was never my favorite.,

I’ll be eagerly looking forward to reports from early adopters.

38 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

That would mean that the weather would look the same up to the horizon in each direction which would be a major step backwards from the default weather which is so immersive because you can see different weather in every direction up to 200 miles away.

Agreed, hopefully that’s not the case.  Though I’ve been critical of the inability for live weather to come close to current METARs, the weather experience is otherwise very immersive if you ignore that one issue.  I Took off from the new Simaddons CYWG and there was broken cloud.  As I headed west I escaped the cloud bank and flew into clear skies.  Looking back I could see the front that I had flown out of.  That was very cool.

I'll also wait and see how both this addon and MSFS live weather will do.

I'm not in a hurry to have accurate real weather (I think it's a must mainly for online ATC platforms).

I want to enjoy the wonderful and credible live weather depiction for a little more and take out the rust of years on the ground before getting back to IVAO 

7 hours ago, Baber20 said:

Because of this, we have infinite visibility all the time.

We certainly don't!  Visibility I'm seeing or not as the case may be seems to match RW conditions quite well so far after 30h of use using Live Weather including the smoke on he west coast earlier this month.  No slider though!

Over Kansas right now, and below it over central valley CA, and below that from yesterday super clear skies over Kansas later in the day all done w/ Live Weather.

The latest patch brought METAR data reproduction and blending with model data to another level, a quite acceptable one at most of the places and situations I was able to test.

Not yet perfect because there are still places where the METAR winds, for instance, fall short from being in sync with what is reported, and MFS doesn't yet allow AFAIK to properly set prevailing visibility.

OFC I am nonetheless looking forward for any 3pd offers in the weather area.

Another interesting feature this programs could bring would be the turbulence and wind shear settings. The new approach followed by MFS is a huge step ahead of what was available before in previous versions of the MS and derivates, and also more detailed than what we presently have for either X-Plane or Aerofly FS2, but the results can pretty much be as weird as the turbulence feels for instance when set at higher levels in X-Plane. Tuning it down to realistic values will be an interesting task for weather injectors / manipulators in MFS.

Honestly, with the latest patch as well, I have been testing with live METAR data from https://en.allmetsat.com/ and I really don't see much differences (I fly mostly in Europe, I don't know about other places), maybe little difference that could be neglectable. Hence I am not sure where it would shine (perhaps with historical weather?). Nevertheless, I am looking forward to it and I'd wish the REX team has a trial version as well comparisons reviews from reviewers, it could be worth it though 😉 

4 hours ago, RALF9636 said:

Reading through the manual I stumbled over this:

That sounds like REX just takes the local METAR and injects that weather globally. And when moving from one METAR station to another the weather transitions globally to the weather of that METAR station. That would mean that the weather would look the same up to the horizon in each direction which would be a major step backwards from the default weather which is so immersive because you can see different weather in every direction up to 200 miles away.

I hope my conclusion is wrong.

 

MSFS weather depiction is not different in every direction. It does change over time yes

Edited September 26, 20205 yr by fs1

1 hour ago, fs1 said:

MSFS weather depiction is not different in every direction. It does change over time yes

Would you please clarify: Are you talking about default MSFS weather (then your statement would not correspond with what I have seen in MSFS) or a about REX in MSFS (then I'd be grateful for your clarification and I would pass on REX Weather Force for now)?

Or maybe there is a misunderstanding here?

Edited September 26, 20205 yr by RALF9636

1 minute ago, RALF9636 said:

Would you please clarify: Are you talking about default MSFS weather (then your statement would not correspond with what I have seen in MSFS) or a about REX in MSFS (then I'd be grateful for your clarification and I would pass on REX Weather Force for now)?

Both. As REX uses the MSFS to depict weather. There is a bubble where weather is depicted and it changes over time.

Edited September 26, 20205 yr by fs1

1 hour ago, fs1 said:

Both. As REX uses the MSFS to depict weather. 

But just yesterday I flew across a mountain range and had (realistically) completely different weather on each side of that mountain range on my way there and back. On the west side of the mountains there were clear skies and on the east side thick clouds and rain. And far in the west I could see another cloud system approaching. These conditions stayed roughly the same and were visible when looking around during all my flight there and back. So definitely different weather depiction for different locations and not the same weather globally depending on my current position. That was with live weather - with the static weather presets of course the weather is the same globally.

Will I be able to experience the same with REX Weather Force? Or will the weather be clear skies gobally as long as I am close to the METAR station west of the mountains and transition to overcast globally as soon as I get to the METAR station east of the mountains (in that above example)?

Maybe we are talking past each other here?

Edited September 26, 20205 yr by RALF9636

I look forward to one of you REX guy’s answering my question on what you say in the manual.