15 minutes ago, Dillon said:

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.

I could imagine a scenario where they could add areas like S.FL and make it more of a subtropical layer. Much like you add the areas you want in Xplane. Not sure if that is at all possible. Obviously Asobo would need to add that for Rex et al. to play with it. 

Either way, South Florida is a little too brown. Obviously at this time of the year it is a tiny bit more brown than the Summer because the Cypress tree's lose their leaves, but just not 'that' brown.

Still, overall a good product IMO.

I don't know what the question "how is it" means? How is what? My steak? 

As for Accuseason, I'm satisfied, because it provides a much closer approximation to how things look in real life season wise where I live and fly, which is in Northern Europe. 

Secondly, it's a set it and forget it addon. 

Thirdly, it has no impact on frame rates. 

All in all, it did away mostly with the greenish dark slime that seemed to cover a lot of the textures in late Fall. 

Is it perfect? No. 

But it mostly does what it says it does. 

So it was well worth the reasonable asking price. 

I also am beginning to like the REX Weather Force + REX Accuseason combo. 

Edited January 25, 20224 yr by Ricardo41

26 minutes ago, RICHUK said:

I could imagine a scenario where they could add areas like S.FL and make it more of a subtropical layer. Much like you add the areas you want in Xplane. Not sure if that is at all possible. Obviously Asobo would need to add that for Rex et al. to play with it. 

Either way, South Florida is a little too brown. Obviously at this time of the year it is a tiny bit more brown than the Summer because the Cypress tree's lose their leaves, but just not 'that' brown.

Still, overall a good product IMO.

You have to look at the trees the application is replacing.  In the FS2020 world there are common trees throughout the continents.  These are the trees that's targeted.  If the same type trees are brown in northern states/countries as they are in the south (all north of the equator) means the mod is just coloring one set and Asobo hasn't fixed regional foliage issue.  Now what are you paying for when you can get that same thing with freeware?  Textures sets... 🤨 

That's not worth the price of admission.🧐

5 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

I don't know what the question "how is it" means? How is what? My steak? 

Does it transition brown foliage to green flying from New York to Miami?  Not sure how I can fraise the question better.

1 minute ago, Dillon said:

You have to look at the trees the application is replacing.  In the FS2020 world there are common trees throughout the continents.  These are the trees that's targeted.  If the same type trees are brown in northern states/countries as they are in the south (all north of the equator) means the mod is just coloring one set and Asobo hasn't fixed regional foliage issue.  Now what are you paying for when you can get that same thing with freeware?  Textures sets... 🤨 

That's not worth the price of admission.🧐

My whole point is that Asobo will need to provide a way to provide an exception so that we don't see the same color trees in NY and Miami. Nothing to do with the trees themselves. I guess Rex will need to press Asobo on that. This product is a little more than freeware btw..

Either way, you seem convinced that this isn't the product for you so I won't waste time trying to convince you otherwise!

8 minutes ago, RICHUK said:

Either way, you seem convinced that this isn't the product for you so I won't waste time trying to convince you otherwise!

I never said that.😳  That's why I'm looking for info.  If the trees don't transition what else of benefit does this offer outside of nice texturing of trees that stay the same color as you fly south?😶

4 hours ago, Dillon said:

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.

Hi Dillon. The northern and southern hemispheres display opposite seasons as in real life so when it is autumn and winter in the northern hemisphere it is spring and summer in the southern hemisphere and vice versa.

Regarding your other question, the foliage is different between Minneapolis and Miami. In fact, when seasons transition from summer to autumn to winter, you will see trees change color in northern areas of the United States first and then progress to more southern areas and this is done WEEKLY.

 

To add more realism, trees change gradually on a Weekly basis. That means the first week of autumn beginning you will see mostly green trees with a few yellow trees. The next week you will see a bit less green trees and more yellow trees. The following week even less green trees, more yellow and now a few orange. This sort of transition goes on for a number of weeks until the trees are dormant. Refer to this gif below to understand what I mean. This is applicable to Europe and Asia as well. 

To sum it up with an example, trees will start the change in Minneapolis from summer to autumn in the early-mid part of September and finish the transition to winter trees on a weekly basis in mid to late November. Trees in warmer climates will start to change to autumn colors (gradual, weekly changes) in later weeks based on the EcoRegion. So if you are in a northern/colder climate, autumn starts weekly changes in early to mid-September and the warmer the climate, the later autumn colors start the weekly transition through the autumn colors into winter. It is a feature we are really pleased and we are glad to offer this to the user community.

This weekly seasonal transition will also take place for Spring. You will see trees change to Spring colors first in warmer and southern areas and later on in more cooler and northern areas. Again, when spring starts in an area, you will see weekly changes in that area from Spring into Summer. I have been putting this together the past few weeks and it is looking really nice. I hope people will really like it.

Hope that answers your question. 

20 minutes ago, MikeT707 said:

Regarding your other question, the foliage is different between Minneapolis and Miami. In fact, when seasons transition from summer to autumn to winter, you will see trees change color in northern areas of the United States first and then progress to more southern areas and this is done WEEKLY.

Have you guys published an update that takes care of brown trees in South Florida? The last time I tried it (some time ago now), and a previous thread on Avsim, showed odd colored trees too far South. I understand that they change a different time of year from MN to FL in the software (that is a cool feature), but trees aren't too brown down here at any time of year.

I am away from my FS PC for the next day or two so can't check. Just curious. You guys do good work.

4 minutes ago, RICHUK said:

Have you guys published an update that takes care of brown trees in South Florida?

That is in the near term backlog. First priority is Spring with gradual transition and weekly changes from winter to spring and then into summer. That is coming along nicely. Next is hopefully ground colorization (terrain masks). These have been my focus as of late, but I am anxious to get something put together for central and northern Florida. 

5 minutes ago, MikeT707 said:

That is in the near term backlog. First priority is Spring with gradual transition and weekly changes from winter to spring and then into summer. That is coming along nicely. Next is hopefully ground colorization (terrain masks). These have been my focus as of late, but I am anxious to get something put together for central and northern Florida. 

Awesome news! I love how this is developing! Thanks!

6 hours ago, Dillon said:

I'm looking for something that changes the foliage from KMSP to KMIA.

Hi Dillon. I wanted to get some quick screenshots to show Miami and the Minneapolis St. Paul area.

Miami:

Minneapolis St. Paul

All season mods have still huge flaws and are only band aids. Not convincing at all, at least for me.

Like many things, Asobo left stuff unfinished. Seasons not only change tree colors. Lawns might stay green, but natural grass just beside it, not cared for (wild grass) turns brown in winter, so does the rest of the ground, if not snow covered. Also not all trees turn brown during fall/winter. Conifers and such keep their colors, or at least a darker version. Nature is much more complex than what the current mods try to accomplish...

I just wish they would model pollen so folks could simulate hay fever.

54 minutes ago, Silicus said:

Nature is much more complex than what the current mods try to accomplish...

I find it difficult to believe that there will ever be a reasonably priced mod that depicts nature in all its complexity.

Mike T707, if you can, publish models of tropical South America continent, like the state of Amazonas here in Brazil. We are in the middle of summer. Grateful