>For fear of a realistic assessment of FSX L.Adamson can't>even stay on topic. We have to hear once again about how>great the ground textures look over the topic at hand>(rain/snow). If this isn't mindless support I don't know what>it. I guess next Geofa will chime in about how great FSX is>without autogen.Well..........Geof and I...........do know what it looks like, from up there! :-hah L.Adamson

So is there the "winter wonderland" weather theme in FSX? If so how does the snow fall in the theme? Not Gentle like it did in FS9?

>To me the specs of snowflakes falling in FS9 are much better>than FSX snow.>>In FSX it just seems to be a hail of white arrows, which does>not look too much like snow.>>It

"For fear of a realistic assessment of FSX L.Adamson can't even stay on topic. We have to hear once again about how great the ground textures look over the topic at hand (rain/snow).":-lol

Well you don't see snow or rain everyday and you do see land. So I would say its on topic.:) Got to love FSX without all that autogen messing up the nice new photoreal textures.The snow and rain are messed up this was talked about along time ago when the demo came out. I think taildragger or one of them said it would not be fixed because something else had to be down.Just never look into the tunnel or hole to long or you will get motion sickness.:-lol

he said the effect on windshield was not going to be fixed. But can we have the snow melancholy back ? Slow floating snow of FS9?

Hi FolksHeinz-Werner -AFAIK editing those effects will only change the appearance of rain on the ground.The 'javelin' rain is a set of textures mapped onto a cylinder wrapped around the user's viewpoint,and visibly extruded into a cut-off cone when viewed from the cockpit.The orientation of the 'cone' is a/c heading dependent, and the apparent speed & direction of streaking is partially a/c ground-speed velocity dependent.This can be best viewed flying a chopper -from the cockpit at low speed and changing headingfrom external tail view, again at low speed and changing heading.I personally find the rain/snow display to be unsatisfactory.In fact in certain conditionsthe rain can also be seen to apparently travel against the wind.EDIT -Ooops just spotted oroboros_arr's post already saying something similar.HTHATBPaulhttp://www.basys.f9.co.uk/resources/images..._sig_500x94.jpg

Thanks for your explanation Paul.I consider this a VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC. There are plenty of great things to comment on about FSX base textures etc. but MS needs to remember that this is still a computer game and one or the great things about flying it to make up some horrid weather and try to takeoff and land in some difficult situations. Or try a VFR flight through some ugly terrain in poor weather.To me this means that MS should FIX this issue and provide a patch that makes the snow and rain more realistic.cheers Bryan

>>I consider this a VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC. There are plenty of>great things to comment on about FSX base textures etc. but MS>needs to remember that this is still a computer game and one>or the great things about flying it to make up some horrid>weather and try to takeoff and land in some difficult>situations. Or try a VFR flight through some ugly terrain in>poor weather.>>To me this means that MS should FIX this issue and provide a>patch that makes the snow and rain more realistic.>As I do believe that snow effects need to be somewhere in between those of FS9 & FSX, FSX will still portray a rather good rendition of your last moments on earth while flying VFR through ugly terrain in lousy weather! I just did it this morning, but luckily I used an aircraft with a high climb rate to get out of a very bad situation. I was just duplicating a VFR flight under IMC conditions, where a few years back, the pilot deviated from following the freeway, to a highway up a blind canyon in low ceiling conditions.Since my simulated flight didn't end in a fatality like his "last" real flight did, I was at least greeted with rain soaked runways at my destination which looked rather good!L.Adamson

:-lol Beautiful!