It almost looks like there is a missing texture in the sky, it seems to be just a square pattern of missing clouds with weirdness around it

Yes its known about, something to do with grids and resolution I thinks.

It has now become Release Candidate 1

https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-12-00-release-notes/#Release_candidate_1206r1

Release candidate – 12.06r1

This is the first release candidate for 12.06! Whilst we gather feedback – this version will only be available under public beta

Changes for X-Plane 12.06r1:

• New loading screen background!
• Fix for: XPD-14398 Missing pipeline in VR in overlay tchothcke

I have seen the rectangular block cloud issue once with 12.06b7...it looked like a ridiculous giant white Gumby floating in the sky.  If it had more of a rounded Sta-Puf marshmallow man form, I could have maybe tried to attribute it to some kind of Ghostbusters Easter egg.  Did it kill the immersion?  Well...yeah.

I tried to re-create it, as I was using a reproducible ASXP12 saved weather snapshot, and after restarting with the same starting conditions, it wasn't present.

The scenario was at KMEM spot 260, FlightFactor B767, the date/time was 28 Aug 2023 @ 1600Z using a weather snapshot from the same date/time obtained from ASXP's historical weather feature, saved to a file, and then re-loaded as custom wx.

41 minutes ago, Bob Scott said:

I have seen the rectangular block cloud issue once with 12.06b7...it looked like a ridiculous giant white Gumby floating in the sky.  If it had more of a rounded Sta-Puf marshmallow man form, I could have maybe tried to attribute it to some kind of Ghostbusters Easter egg.  Did it kill the immersion?  Well...yeah.

I tried to re-create it, as I was using a reproducible ASXP12 saved weather snapshot, and after restarting with the same starting conditions, it wasn't present.

The scenario was at KMEM spot 260, FlightFactor B767, the date/time was 28 Aug 2023 @ 1600Z using a weather snapshot from the same date/time obtained from ASXP's historical weather feature, saved to a file, and then re-loaded as custom wx.

This is what I can call  a well documented report.

18 hours ago, efis007 said:

I don't give up easily when it comes to investigating potential bugs. 🧐
I did another flight again, always with real weather, and always in the same Swiss location,... and this time... Bingo!... I saw anomalous clouds.

 

After this test I confirm that it's not your PC that has problems, it's XP12 that has problems, beta7 has a bug in the clouds, it's confirmed.
Users who say they've never seen it have simply been very lucky, they probably didn't find the meteorological situation conducive to the formation of those strange clouds. 🤞

 

9 hours ago, onebob said:

I had an issue with it yesterday 

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Have both of you checked Log.txt for any METAR parsing errors?

 

 

3 hours ago, Sethos said:

It has now become Release Candidate 1

https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-12-00-release-notes/#Release_candidate_1206r1

Release candidate – 12.06r1

This is the first release candidate for 12.06! Whilst we gather feedback – this version will only be available under public beta

Changes for X-Plane 12.06r1:

• New loading screen background!
• Fix for: XPD-14398 Missing pipeline in VR in overlay tchothcke

Disappointing changelog, but both the XP binary and planet shaders are updated, som there may be more than these changes under the hood.

34 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

Disappointing changelog, but both the XP binary and planet shaders are updated, som there may be more than these changes under the hood.

I'm not a fan of the new loading screen 

20 minutes ago, tonywob said:

I'm not a fan of the new loading screen 

lives in here i think so can be changed

X-Plane 12\Resources\bitmaps\backgrounds

a nice little program that randomises it too! https://www.helisimmer.com/downloads/x-plane/utilities/x-splasher-2-0

Edited September 1, 20232 yr by UKflyer

50 minutes ago, tonywob said:

I'm not a fan of the new loading screen 

I wonder if this is passively promoting the fancy new background randomizer folder in the Output dir? It works quite well. I’ve never taken this many screenshots before…

Ha ha, no, no idea something like that was possible. I wouldn't mind seeing a rotating startup screen of @filou's screenshots though :-)

Indeed. Load up Output/backgrounds in the main XP dir full of pics. Does precisely what the plugin mentioned by @UKflyer  does.

There's a voting system in place on the LR discord channel as well, with the intent of accumulating the best of the best.

Edited September 1, 20232 yr by blingthinger

4 hours ago, tonywob said:

I'm not a fan of the new loading screen 

Me neither. Me neither.

7 hours ago, Bob Scott said:

it looked like a ridiculous giant white Gumby floating in the sky

Too bad you didn't photograph it, it would have been interesting to see.
Sometimes graphic bugs are "beautiful", they create absurd and spectacular shapes that deserve to be photographed. 😃
Next time have the "Shift + Spacebar" ready... and capture your clouds! 📷

5 hours ago, Bjoern said:

Have both of you checked Log.txt for any METAR parsing errors?

Yes Bjoern.
I checked the log, but there were no errors.
I think the problem is with the weather engine that works "the Xp12 way", and randomly creates strange cloud shapes.
Sometimes they are seen in bad weather.
Other times they are seen in good weather.
I honestly don't know why this phenomenon happens, apparently the bug doesn't seem to follow a "weather logic", it seems something random in data interpretation and cloud rendering.
The Laminars surely know the problem best and will fix it. 🤞

9 hours ago, Bjoern said:

Me neither. Me neither.

what new loading screen? heck, I see no difference?