August 14, 20223 yr Author On 7/3/2021 at 2:54 AM, bobcat999 said: I am prepared to be shot down over this viewpoint, so go ahead if you feel like it, but some of the expectations in this thread are way out of line for what is currently achievable. Do you realise what it will take to get the weather accuracy / snow depth you want? I wonder how much of this is trolling from users of the 'other' flight simulators out there (By the way - how's the snow depth working out in them? ) Maybe come back in a few years time for the kind of accuracy you wish for, but even then it might not be possible to have the snow depth / snow threshold line for every mountain in the world with that kind of accuracy. It is really asking a lot to inject that type of data into the sim, and I am not sure if that data is even available. First and foremost, it is a flight simulator, so just fly. If the snow depth isn't quite right for your liking or local knowledge, why don't you just adjust it from the slider in the weather icon menu - that works well. On adjustment, you can see the snow line going up and down the mountains in front of your eyes in real time. Adjust it to your liking or local knowledge - Simples! P3D and FSX doesn't have this problem. Its the middle of summer in the Yukon where I live and no snow. Load up MSFS and its snow everywhere. I'm sure if Birmingham, UK had snow covered runways in August in MSFS you wouldn't be saying "it is a flight simulator, so just fly." Pete Richards I've owned every version of flight simulator since Flight Simulator 3.0 in 1988. Windows 11 Pro loaded on a 4TB Gen5 Crucial T700 SSD, 4TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD, Ryzen 9 7950x3d, AS Rock X670e Taichi Motherboard, Gigabyte Gaming RTX 4090 OC 24GB, 64GB (2x32GB) Viper Venom DDR5-6000MT/s, MSI 32" MAG 321UPX QD-OLED 260hz 4K Gaming Monitor.
August 14, 20223 yr It isn't hard to get snow depth accurate for MOST airports, as the data is reported, they are not querying it correctly. It is somewhat more difficult to get snow coverage accuracy for an area, but you can use a weekly high-low and triangulate the nearest 3 airports and take an average and set an elevation map for the snow cover in X area. It's a programming task for sure, but it isn't that hard, it's like a couple weeks of work to fix it. They just aren't trying very hard 🙂 Edited August 14, 20223 yr by Alpine Scenery AMD 5800x | Nvidia 3080 (12gb) | 64gb ram
August 14, 20223 yr 46 minutes ago, YukonPete said: P3D and FSX doesn't have this problem. Its the middle of summer in the Yukon where I live and no snow. Load up MSFS and its snow everywhere. I'm sure if Birmingham, UK had snow covered runways in August in MSFS you wouldn't be saying "it is a flight simulator, so just fly." Wow! A thread resurrection from July 2021! Isn't that just fixed ortho though Pete? I mean, did they just take the satellite aerial pictures in the winter? If so, the textures are baked in, and there is nothing that can be done until they get summer imagery of that area for bing maps I was talking about the snow depth slider in the weather menu. It kind of works the other way around. I.e. set a snow depth on top of green grass etc. Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind). I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio. Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's. Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.
August 14, 20223 yr I'm confused. This thread is from 2021. Did YukonPete do a Marty McFly and time travel this thread into 2022 but still believes it's July 2021? Is it still 2021 in the Yukon? If so, I want to go there.
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