EA really EXCELS when you combine it with Active Sky's Cloud Art!  I have been using Cloud Art for years and when you combine it with EA and have Volumetric clouds OFF, you get marvelous cloud formations in P3d v5.4.

Experiment, but some of my favorite choices are EA and Exultant clouds, Discovery clouds, Departure clouds, Full Dynamic clouds, Venture clouds, and Aerial clouds.  The clouds are all full, wispy and beautiful.  I can't imagine not using this phenomenal combination.  Right now, I'm using the Departure clouds and my flight from rainy LAX to IAH (Houston) was memorable and ever-changing.  I do believe the clouds were as correct as the real weather was according to my weather research of the skies today.

Cloud Art is the answer to the many concerns about realistic clouds that I read on this forum.  I couldn't be happier. Best investment you'll ever make!

Stan

Beauty is in the eye of the holder as they say, I switched to Rex Sky Force from ASCA with EA on and volumetric off. ASCA just looked too repetitive at times, especially the thunderstorm depiction. At any rate either option is better than default P3D anything.

ASCA with AS, EnvShade and EnvTex for skies.

Works for me.

16 hours ago, CW46 said:

Beauty is in the eye of the holder as they say, I switched to Rex Sky Force from ASCA with EA on and volumetric off. ASCA just looked too repetitive at times, especially the thunderstorm depiction. At any rate either option is better than default P3D anything.

First I already have Active Sky and I fly in VR. The questions that come to my mind is. What are the differences between ASCA and RSF ? Well I see one difference. ASCA is a little bit less expensive than RSF. So is RSF a little bit better ? Since I already have Active Sky does that mean ASCA has advantage since it might work better together with Active Sky ?

5 hours ago, jfri said:

First I already have Active Sky and I fly in VR. The questions that come to my mind is. What are the differences between ASCA and RSF ? Well I see one difference. ASCA is a little bit less expensive than RSF. So is RSF a little bit better ? Since I already have Active Sky does that mean ASCA has advantage since it might work better together with Active Sky ?

RSF was recently $15.99 USD on sale that's when I picked it up, I wanted to try another option instead of the ASCA I was already using. RSF includes a weather engine plus other features and replaces sky colors, clouds etc in default P3D. Active Sky works with ASCA  weather display and cloud replacement, you buy both products unless there is an option for both that I was not aware of when I purchased them. What one option has over the other is purely subjective as suggested by the previous comments from others. It comes down to what appeals to you visually, either ASCA or RSF.  I retain Active Sky as the weather engine in P3D but prefer RSF for sky and clouds and I like the random feature which I feel adds more variety of how the weather effects are displayed each new session I fly. I had used the older version of Rex products when I ran P3D V4.5 and always like the visuals they produced in that version. For myself RSF produces a similar result in V5.4, 

15 hours ago, CW46 said:

RSF was recently $15.99 USD on sale that's when I picked it up, I wanted to try another option instead of the ASCA I was already using. RSF includes a weather engine plus other features and replaces sky colors, clouds etc in default P3D. Active Sky works with ASCA  weather display and cloud replacement, you buy both products unless there is an option for both that I was not aware of when I purchased them. What one option has over the other is purely subjective as suggested by the previous comments from others. It comes down to what appeals to you visually, either ASCA or RSF.  I retain Active Sky as the weather engine in P3D but prefer RSF for sky and clouds and I like the random feature which I feel adds more variety of how the weather effects are displayed each new session I fly. I had used the older version of Rex products when I ran P3D V4.5 and always like the visuals they produced in that version. For myself RSF produces a similar result in V5.4, 

If I pick up RSF it has to be when it's on sale which it isn't now. And I will pick either RSF or ASCA but not both. And I do have Active Sky but not ASCA so I must have purchased only one of them.

Regarding the differences between them I notice a couple of things (apart from price) from their product description,

1) ASCA is said to only be partially compatible with EA. To fully use it you need to completely turn off EA
2) RSF is bigger regarding HD size (20 Gb vs 2 Gb) suggesting RSF has more content

Personally, I find REX's Sky Force clouds to be the best.  I do not use the Sky Force weather engine.  I tried ASCA in the past and they're just not as realistic as REX. 

No need for sky textures as I use EA.

My 2c.

Dave

6 minutes ago, dave2013 said:

Personally, I find REX's Sky Force clouds to be the best.  I do not use the Sky Force weather engine.  I tried ASCA in the past and they're just not as realistic as REX. 

No need for sky textures as I use EA.

My 2c.

Dave

 

Be aware that ASCA has an update download for High Definition (HD) Content!  This free upgrade is on the HiFi site under Cloud Art section.  It allows for 64 bit and 4096 textures.  I just downloaded it yesterday, and I'm looking forward to seeing if there is any difference to the clouds.  I'm satisfied with Cloud Art the way it is, but I'd love to be able to get even higher resolution to them.

Stan