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April 7th, 2022 – Development Update

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Wish Asobo/MS fixes the windshield rain effect bug ASAP.It is strange that no seroius consideration was given to such a realism killer!!

17 minutes ago, vinodkk said:

Wish Asobo/MS fixes the windshield rain effect bug ASAP.It is strange that no seroius consideration was given to such a realism killer!!

What bug?

  

2 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

They used to do these weekly development updates on Friday, for almost 2 years now.   As far as I know, there is no public holiday in the US or France on Friday.  Why the change to issuing this development update on Thursday?  Is this going to be a permanent change where we get the development update on Thursday going forward?

Um, they've been Thursdays since forever.

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3 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

They used to do these weekly development updates on Friday, for almost 2 years now.  

It’s always been Thursday late in the day in the US. Perhaps you didn’t notice them until Friday. I’ve been pinning these every Thursday night for what seems like years now 😂😂

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1 hour ago, Tuskin38 said:

What bug?

The coding is such that the windshield can only receive rain drops but can't be wiped off with the wiper. So, what you see are the wipers swinging back and forth vehemently without wiping a single drop of water!! Also, you can see the rain drops through the rubber lining of the windshiled.

53 minutes ago, cmpbellsjc said:

It’s always been Thursday late in the day in the US. Perhaps you didn’t notice them until Friday. I’ve been pinning these every Thursday night for what seems like years now 😂😂

 

My bad.  I keep reading them for the last two years but I forgot it was on a Thursday.

Edited by abrams_tank

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4 hours ago, iFlySimX said:

What does SU10 + mean....After SU10? 

I think it means multiple releases starting from SU10

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We are fine-tuning the cloud layer system to be more precise and incremental. The layer will be much thinner at sea level and thicker as we go to higher altitudes. The updated system will help better depict a realistic cloud coverage at low altitude.

Why don't you use metroblu like you once did, are they not processing it all including local airport observations and sending you the correct cloud layer heights like you said? Oh right, because they have been or are going to be cut off soon. Now need to build your own in-house weather system based on freely accessible sources to replace all that. Don't worry, you can tell us the truth.

1 hour ago, vinodkk said:

The coding is such that the windshield can only receive rain drops but can't be wiped off with the wiper. So, what you see are the wipers swinging back and forth vehemently without wiping a single drop of water!! Also, you can see the rain drops through the rubber lining of the windshiled.

I wouldn‘t call this a bug. It‘s just a feature that‘s not implemented yet. But I agree, I‘d love to see working wipers too. 

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1 hour ago, SubtotalGuide said:

Why don't you use metroblu like you once did, are they not processing it all including local airport observations and sending you the correct cloud layer heights like you said? Oh right, because they have been or are going to be cut off soon. Now need to build your own in-house weather system based on freely accessible sources to replace all that. Don't worry, you can tell us the truth.

Hi,

you're not the only one claiming this is happening with MFS / ASOBO / Meteoblue. I tried to find any sources of such claims but couldn't. Can you please point me to it ?

Thanks !

Edited by jcomm

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6 hours ago, jcomm said:

Hi,

you're not the only one claiming this is happening with MFS / ASOBO / Meteoblue. I tried to find any sources of such claims but couldn't. Can you please point me to it ?

Thanks !

People are making assumptions based on a lack of understanding of how the weather system works, and treating those assumptions as facts. I doubt that MeteoBlue is going anywhere. MSFS has to use a weather model that simulates the entire atmosphere from the surface to high altitudes for the entire world.

Asobo cannot build their own weather model “in house”. Creating a worldwide model requires enormous computational resources, and can only be done by an organization that specializes in meteorology and forecasting, either a commercial operation like MeteoBlue or AccuWeather, or a government entity like the US NOAA.

A model can provide information on where clouds exist, but it up to the sim’s own graphics engine to actually create the cloud images and place them in the simulated atmosphere. It is probably the cloud graphics generation system that they are “fine tuning”.

Edited by JRBarrett

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Did the vegetation slider die a death then?  Cannot see it anywhere. 

EDIT- oh, completed!

Edited by Langeveldt

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