XPlane 12 clouds are looking good.  Even if XPlane 12 is not on your radar, advances in another sim can only be good for MSFS and flight simulation as a hobby.  

 

Edited November 13, 20214 yr by MrBitstFlyer

I think you posted in the wrong forum.  Also I believe someone already posted that clip in the XP forum.

11 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

I think you posted in the wrong forum.  Also I believe someone already posted that clip in the XP forum.

No, right forum because advances in one sim will lead to advances in another.  XPlane clouds are being improved because of MSFS - and MSFS may very well improve its own clouds as a result.  I see improvements in XPlane as only good for MSFS.  

Naw, I agree with @ryanbatcund - wrong forum. Nothing to do with MSFS

50 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

No, right forum because advances in one sim will lead to advances in another.  XPlane clouds are being improved because of MSFS - and MSFS may very well improve its own clouds as a result.  I see improvements in XPlane as only good for MSFS.  

Sorry no...  this is a video about XP12....either it goes in XP forum, or hangar (general) forum.  In case you're new here (doesn't look like it), people don't typically post something about a totally different sim in another sim's sub forum.

Yeah, wrong forum and wrong premise. XP12’s clouds are nothing to do with responding to MSFS.

This won't end well...🍿

Right forum here. XP visuals and engine in dire need of upgrade in comparison. Bring on the competition, and the grass 😂

I apologise.  I saw the cloud advance in XPlane and thought it would be good for MSFS having another sim pushing the boundaries.

Now that it's over here - yes I agree...the sim is getting some great looks.  I wasn't fond of XP11 clouds - these are a large improvement!

@MrBitstFlyer I agree with @ryanbatcund and other that the XP forum is a more suitable place and had moved it to that forum earlier.

Competition is indeed good and we saw features and tech moving around our favourite simulators.

In this case specifically, i think volumetric clouds are the perfect example considering the superior visual representation they give compared to billboard ones (which, as based on photos, are much crisper but still 2d things they are). We saw this tech being used in Il2 Sturmovik, we saw it being used on xEnviro, Dovetail flight sim, P3D with Truesky, War Thunder...and now they are finally on XP12 too.

Call me crazy, volumetric clouds are great in any sim, however I will miss the XP11 stock clouds effect when you are breaking out of clouds when ascending.

In my humble opinion, the XP12 clouds are vastly superior to anything I've seen so far, not because they are volumetric because this isn't new at all*.

The difference to me is that most other titles portraying volumetric clouds are doing this in what I'd qualify as a "synthetic" computer generated way. What I mean with this is that volumetric clouds are more an artistic view of a cloud from a look perspective, portraying something convincing but not attached to the underlying weather phenomenon leading to the generation of the cloud itself.

On the other end, the following XP12 preview screenshot shows they are generating volumetric clouds which, IMHO, are not only not shy of any other volumetric cloud in any other title, but are also portraying an underlying meteorological phenomenon precluding their generation!

 

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*volumetric clouds have been made possible relatively recently only, thanks to capable GPU hardware, but they are not new to FS2020 either. FSW was already using the same Simul libraries as the ones used with P3D5 (SimulSky, SimulClouds etc...) for example.

On 11/15/2021 at 9:11 AM, RXP said:

the following XP12 preview screenshot shows they are generating volumetric clouds which, IMHO, are not only not shy of any other volumetric cloud in any other title, but are also portraying an underlying meteorological phenomenon precluding their generation!

Let's hope your observation applies very well thru different types of weather generation.  If it does we can point Asobo to this to let them know it's actually possible to do, and you know if MS is good at anything it's copying stuff that really works well 😆.