Came across these in Facebook.  

CB clouds in X-Plane 12 are coming along nicely.

Credit goes to Darren Howie, who took the screenshots

Real world photo

X-Plane 12 images

Edited February 1, 20233 yr by GoranM

WOW! Honestly, RL looks faker than XP! 😆

1 hour ago, Murmur said:

WOW! Honestly, RL looks faker than XP! 😆

🤣

1 hour ago, Murmur said:

WOW! Honestly, RL looks faker than XP! 😆

Here, the entire country is just covered in one big cloud and it snows and rains non-stop.. I call these shots fake :D

These clouds look very good !

The level of detail seems higher than what we currently have in the sim, doesn't it ? I'm worried about potential FPS impact ? 😕

5 hours ago, Daube said:

These clouds look very good !

The level of detail seems higher than what we currently have in the sim, doesn't it ? I'm worried about potential FPS impact ? 😕

If your sim is running ok, turn off the fps counter and stop worrying about it - smooth flying is the goal.

That's good progress.  Also would love to see more detail in the clouds...they're still really lacking depth and detail up close.

Impressive.

14 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

If your sim is running ok, turn off the fps counter and stop worrying about it - smooth flying is the goal.

That's precisely the point: those of us who fly in VR have to be a little bit more worried about FPS than those who fly in 2D.

My computer is quite old now, and its GTX1070ti is barely able to run VR in the current version. Any additional FPS impact would not really be welcome 😕

But that's not really a problem right now, since my VR headset has broken down a few days ago, so I can't fly at all anymore 😞

Edited February 2, 20233 yr by Daube

Interesting - alas still a very long way to go to get close to real life. This is a shot by a pilot Borja on a flight from NY to Ecuador at F370. This would be the Holy Grail perhaps?

Still not totally convincing as I was already  getting this outcome with EA and True Sky in P3DV5:

Have not come close to this so far with XP12 - however I temper that observation with it always depends on the real weather at the time and in some aspects there are some serious data interpolation issues with what XP12 is doing with what it gets. Clouds can be good but the weather is well not so good not at low level but at FL's. 

 

 

Edited February 2, 20233 yr by coastaldriver
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35 minutes ago, coastaldriver said:

Interesting - alas still a very long way to go to get close to real life. This is a shot by a pilot Borja on a flight from NY to Ecuador at F370. This would be the Holy Grail perhaps?

If I saw that first cloud in ANY sim, I'd be asking what in high heaven is causing that internal 4 million nits bright light.

36 minutes ago, coastaldriver said:

Still not totally convincing as I was already  getting this outcome with EA and True Sky in P3DV5:

The second image...I find has very unusual shading going on.  I don't think I've ever seen any kind of "black" in any cloud lining.  

 

Regardless, the point of the OP was to show CB clouds as compared to a real world photo.  And it's obvious Laminar have, pretty much, nailed it.  

2 hours ago, coastaldriver said:

This is a shot by a pilot Borja on a flight from NY to Ecuador at F370. This would be the Holy Grail perhaps?

Personally I would be upset with 5fps, so this in a flightsim is not going to happen.

7 hours ago, Daube said:

My computer is quite old now, and its GTX1070ti is barely able to run VR in the current version.

I don't use my HP VR headset in XP12 with a 2080ti because it isn't smooth enough!

4 hours ago, coastaldriver said:

alas still a very long way to go to get close to real life.

much closer than full mesh shaded snow. really just needs to get the cirrus fixed which is on the near term todo list.

9 hours ago, Daube said:

since my VR headset has broken down a few days ago,

I'm having issues with VR, main reason I've not flown much the last month or two, not sure if its XP, valve or nvidia to blame, but steamvr keeps crashing 15 minutes or so into a flight (which is insanely frustrating, because those 15 minutes are absolutely glorious) - seems possibly related to clouds/rw weather....

4 hours ago, GoranM said:

If I saw that first cloud in ANY sim, I'd be asking what in high heaven is causing that internal 4 million nits bright light.

 

Of course it's just a longer shutter speed to show the stars and lightning.  But this is a good comparison because while the shape of the TCU / CB is really good in XP12 - the detail is just not there at all.  XP clouds are really blurry and there's almost no detail.  As I understand adding detail hurts fps but some detail needs to be added!

In the real pic with the 737 the focal point is the cockpit and they are using a large aperture to create the blurry sky backdrop.  Otherwise we'd see the details in that puffy CB.

Edited February 2, 20233 yr by ryanbatc