Rex Accuseasons - How is it?

[Dillon 2,197]

To anyone who has this add-on, how is it?  I'm looking for something that changes the foliage from KMSP to KMIA.  I read that the southern and northern hemisphere are covered but wondering is the in country foliage transition covered as you fly.  Thanks in advance for the feedback.

[Rocky_53 1,579]

Hi Dillon, I have this installed and am pretty happy with it. Basically it does what it says on the tin. I have not used the auto function, I simply click one of the specific seasons once I want to see it in the sim. The correct trees are shown in both the north and south hemisphere as they should look. Is country foliage transition covered as you fly? Not sure, but I would imagine so. All that REX has done, from what I can make out, is to replace the default foliage files with their own. So I guess however the sim itself calls up the relevent files will happen the same with the REX  files as it would with it's own default files.

[RichUK 474]

Agree with Howard. I like it.

[Dillon 2,197]

21 minutes ago, Rockliffe said:

Hi Dillon, I have this installed and am pretty happy with it. Basically it does what it says on the tin. I have not used the auto function, I simply click one of the specific seasons once I want to see it in the sim. The correct trees are shown in both the north and south hemisphere as they should look. Is country foliage transition covered as you fly? Not sure, but I would imagine so. All that REX has done, from what I can make out, is to replace the default foliage files with their own. So I guess however the sim itself calls up the relevent files will happen the same with the REX  files as it would with it's own default files.

Thanks Howard.🍺  Here's the issue REX got around the global setting with foliage.  In the beginning you set tree texture and it changed everything in the sim both north and southern hemispheres.  Now have they cracked the code with Minnesota foliage versus Florida in January.  If they have I'll get this.

[DeepestRed 214]

I have both this and the Bijan product.   AccuSeason is a lot more polished and, to my eye, the results look nicer.   Another advantage is that it gives you explicit control of the automation process so you can turn it on and off and even change the time it runs.   At the moment the Bijan product, if you chose automatic mode, is intended to install a scheduled task without informing you and gives you no simple way to control it.

Hopefully that will be added -- I've suggested it -- but if that matters to you it's something to be aware of.

[Rocky_53 1,579]

4 minutes ago, Dillon said:

Thanks Howard.🍺  Here's the issue REX got around the global setting with foliage.  In the beginning you set tree texture and it changed everything in the sim both north and southern hemispheres.  Now have they cracked the code with Minnesota foliage versus Florida in January.  If they have I'll get this.

Hey Dillon, this is what they say... Seasons are represented globally, with the season in the northern hemisphere opposite of the season in the southern hemisphere. You can fly from New York in autumn and arrive in Buenos Aires with spring vegetation. Or fly out of Sydney in Australia’s winter and arrive in Seattle with summer vegetation.

Edited January 25, 2022 by Rockliffe

[RichUK 474]

I haven't flown in South FL for a while, but there was a slight issue there with foliage looking a little too brown in South Florida. I believe Rex are looking at that. It is obviously technically in the northern hemisphere, but also sub-tropical. Not going to be able to get to the sim for a day or two..

[Dillon 2,197]

7 minutes ago, Rockliffe said:

Hey Dillon, this is what they say... Seasons are represented globally, with the season in the northern hemisphere opposite of the season in the southern hemisphere. You can fly from New York in autumn and arrive in Buenos Aires with spring vegetation. Or fly out of Sydney in Australia’s winter and arrive in Seattle with summer vegetation.

Hey Howard, what I get out of that is north of the equator is one season and south of the equator is another (that's easy) not foliage changing in the same hemisphere from a cold climate (MN) to a warm one (Florida/Arizona).

[RichUK 474]

5 minutes ago, Dillon said:

Hey Howard, what I get out of that is north of the equator is one season and south of the equator is another (that's easy) not foliage changing in the same hemisphere from a cold climate (MN) to a warm one (Florida/Arizona).

Hey Dillon. I just explained....

 

[hangar 661]

5 minutes ago, Dillon said:

Hey Howard, what I get out of that is north of the equator is one season and south of the equator is another (that's easy) not foliage changing in the same hemisphere from a cold climate (MN) to a warm one (Florida/Arizona).

Good question, I'm also curious about this aspect. For example it's winter in New York, but what will it look like in southern California & south Florida?

[RichUK 474]

Jeez I give up...

[GSalden 4,656]

44 minutes ago, DeepestRed said:

I have both this and the Bijan product.   AccuSeason is a lot more polished and, to my eye, the results look nicer.   Another advantage is that it gives you explicit control of the automation process so you can turn it on and off and even change the time it runs.   At the moment the Bijan product, if you chose automatic mode, is intended to install a scheduled task without informing you and gives you no simple way to control it.

Hopefully that will be added -- I've suggested it -- but if that matters to you it's something to be aware of.

Here what Bijans product has over REX :

 

1. Spring flower blossoms in all cities.
2. Flower fields in many parts of the world, UK, Africa, Asia, Europe, USA
3. More vareity of trees and colors in each season.
4. Gradual transition of trees in different elevations.
5. Customized trees in upper UK and Scottland areas - Removed/reduced all vegetation from higher elevations.
6. Photogrammetry trees removal from cities (ongoing project)
7. Terrain Mask
8. Snow mask so roads and runways can be cleared of snow in winter.  
9. Multi ecosystem in the same area which is only doable with SDK, resulting in a variety of trees in the same area and creating lush forests, smooth transition.
10. 60 fall color sets with much more variety of colors instead of 3 preset ones.
11. Live correction of fall tree colors by using live cam available in several countries.
12. 3d leafless winter trees in several cities
13. 3d Joshua trees in Joshua National Park
14. 3d Pinus Sylvestris trees
15. 3d Blood Dragon trees
16. 3d Plumeria trees in Honolulu, Hawaii
17. 3d Rhododendron trees
18. 3d baobab trees
19. 3d bamboo trees
20. 3d banana trees
21. Florida Mangrove trees
22. Black Forest in Germany
23. Black Forest in Colorado
24. Custom fall trees in the Rocky Mountains.
25. Customized fall season in Florida to remove fall colored trees. 
26. Famous Hills in China by Li River
27. Rocky cliff islands and in China
28. Manually corrected vegetation in 1000's regions which cannot be fixed by only using biomes. 
29. Cleared trees in 100's of runways.
30. Accepting changes by user's request.
31. Adding exclusions to work with 3rd party airports.
32. Instant support and frequent updates

 

[DeepestRed 214]

2 minutes ago, GSalden said:

Here what Bijans product has over REX :

That's nice, but cutting and pasting marketing material about one product when someone asks about another isn't exactly helpful.    I could also go cut and paste stuff from REX's marketing material (half a dozen new biomes, multiple canopy shapes, multiple color tones, and so on), but that's superficial noise that anyone being an informed consumer can easily determine for themselves.

Do you have any feedback on Accuseason that you can give @Dillon to help answer their question?

[GSalden 4,656]

4 minutes ago, DeepestRed said:

That's nice, but cutting and pasting marketing material about one product when someone asks about another isn't exactly helpful.    I could also go cut and paste stuff from REX's marketing material (half a dozen new biomes, multiple canopy shapes, multiple color tones, and so on), but that's superficial noise that anyone being an informed consumer can easily determine for themselves.

Do you have any feedback on Accuseason that you can give @Dillon to help answer their question?

Just showing him that there is more than Accusim. Perhaps he did not know about it.

Accusim looks more polished because of the GUI but in total there is more with 4 Seasons.

Now he knows he can compare and make his choice…

[Dillon 2,197]

34 minutes ago, RICHUK said:

Jeez I give up...

I totally understand what you saying above.  Basically if your seeing brown foliage in the south means the add-on is changing all the trees much like what our freeware options are for foliage.  Threre's nothing that can be done about that if Asobo hasn't updated how foliage is covered in the sim.  Looks like an update has been made concerning the hemispheres (north and south of the equator). My question is has that been addressed in the same hemisphere and from the sounds of what your describing it hasn't.  There's nothing REX can do about that and not sure why their saying they will look into it.  Again Asobo may have done something with an update which I'm not sure about at this time.