ActiveSky FS Released

[pete_auau 1,168]

27 minutes ago, Gumerson said:

with Xenviro2020

ok  there  is  a post in  the  hi fi  forum  where  a  user had  this addon   and  it  didnt  inject  the  weather  in, he  deleted  it  and now  how  the  correct  weather in  msfs

[RALF9636 1,999]

Just now, Fiorentoni said:

That's great to hear! I mean sorry for your C172, of course 😉
How much was the distance to the A320? Right behind the engines or the typical 3 NM separation?

I was very close. Don't do this in real life. 😆

Maybe half a mile. I wasn't able to counteract the roll rate induced by the wake turbulence.

[F737MAX 5,738]

6 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

As always: It depends 🙂
I'd say it's worth it if...

Good summation!

It doesn't have to appeal to everyone. I'm still not sure if I'm going to buy it, though it's good that there's the option for other people if it meets their wants.

[Bobsk8 12,880]

1 hour ago, Fiorentoni said:

No. I've only done one flight so far, but no performance impact. I've seen some very short occasional stutters during this flight, could be AS injecting weather, or could have been the urban area of Sao Paolo (which has a bazillion of buildings) slowly loading in.
Since the weather visuals are MSFS technology, performance impact should be the same or even better for AS (since MSFS default always creates those high performance impact volcanic ash clouds all the time...).

I looked at the CPU load with AS running this morning, 0.2%...

[Iiari 13]

20 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

6) You can live with the fact that you will not see distant weather fronts anymore (as in MSFS default), because AS injects globally

Does this give you the XP11 effect at cruise where you feel like weather exists only in a disc around your aircraft and nowhere else?

[Fiorentoni 4,412]

3 minutes ago, Iiari said:

Does this give you the XP11 effect at cruise where you feel like weather exists only in a disc around your aircraft and nowhere else?

Not sure what you mean. But AS works the same as in P3D and XPL as in injecting a local weather globally. As for the "disc" - I see no disc, weather goes up to the horizon everywhere at crusie.

Edited April 19 by Fiorentoni

[Bobsk8 12,880]

Just now, Fiorentoni said:

Not sure what you mean. But AS works the same as in P3D and XPL as in injecting a local weather globally. As for the "disc" - I see no disc, weather goes up to the horizon everywhere at crusie.

You say it inject globally, but looking at the map in AS, if you go from a cloudy area to an area with no clouds, you will see the change in the weather. So the weather you see should depend on where you are in the flight. 

[Juliett Alfa Romeo 561]

A question on a Twitch stream:

"So what's the verdict on active sky for msfs? Is it worth buying or is a scam as a lot of people are saying?"

Oh my God... a scam?!? why????

😑

Edited April 19 by Juliett Alfa Romeo

[Soulflight 97]

Had an AS app crash today (happens). Tried to restart it, but wind depiction was stuck at 270/01. MSFS live weather only also was stuck at the same wind. Only way to fix it is sim restart. There seems to be something slightly wrong with the connection module...

Edited April 19 by Soulflight

[Fiorentoni 4,412]

16 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

You say it inject globally, but looking at the map in AS, if you go from a cloudy area to an area with no clouds, you will see the change in the weather. So the weather you see should depend on where you are in the flight. 

Well yes, it's injected globally but obviously the global injection changes with the location. Just like in P3D. Someone else can probably explain that better than me.

[JRBarrett 3,131]

49 minutes ago, Gumerson said:

Can you elaborate on why do you think a flat cloud layer is realistic when the real sky and five weather utilities or engines, two of them developed by Hifisimtech, do not generate flat clouds? I'm talking as I said before about VISUALS, and I got my eyes broken comparing reality with asfs visual depiction

Many people have complained that MSFS Live Weather never seems to generate a true stratus layer. You are complaining because ASFS has created what appears to be a very realistic looking stratus layer!

There is nothing “horrible” about it. Those kinds of flat layers (that look exactly like your screenshot) occur all the time - especially right offshore in Southern. California at this time of year.

Now, your photo shows the real clouds at that time are stratocumulus. One problem with using METAR to generate clouds is that METAR normally contains absolutely no information as to what exact kind of cloud layer might exist with an observation of OVC (overcast). The only time the type of cloud might appear in a METAR is TCU (towering cumulus) or CB (cumulonimbus). 

MS Live Weather has more information from the weather model that can help determine the exact cloud type - which depends on how stable or unstable the air is, and the temperature lapse rate. You will get a very flat stratus layer when there is a temperature inversion - I.e. the temperature aloft is warmer than the air at the surface, and there is more moisture in the air near the ground than at higher altitude. No METAR report can give that information.

ASFS has data from the GFS weather model that might help determine that. As the program develops I’m sure HiFi will work on integrating model data with the METAR to help refine the cloud depiction. The program is brand new, and under active development. Give it time to mature.

In the meantime, it is refreshing to see true stratus in MSFS (which Live Weather rarely depicts).

It is unrealistic to expect any sim weather engine to show exactly the same sky conditions you see outside your window.

[Cpt_Piett 4,839]

Despite reading every single post in this thread, I’m still not convinced. I’ve had REX Weather Force for quite a while, and recently started using it again. Need some time to understand what benefits it brings, and then what improvements AS might bring vs REX.  I’ve already blown my addon budget for this month…

EDIT: the price at the moment is very good, so I might get it just for the sake of comparing it with default and REX. 

Edited April 19 by Cpt_Piett

[Soulflight 97]

13 hours ago, F737MAX said:

Slow updates, but nowhere near abandoned.

Currently on Technical Update 7.0 - Public Beta 3

 

All nice. The deal breaker with REX for me was the messed up wind injection (affecting active runway selection) on the ground. I contacted them and they say there will never be a fix for it.

[Bobsk8 12,880]

1 minute ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Despite reading every single post in this thread, I’m still not convinced. I’ve had REX Weather Force for quite a while, and recently started using it. Need some time to understand what benefits it brings, and then what improvements might bring on top of that. I’ve already blown my addon budget for this month…

I tried a friends MSFS PC and he had Rex, and I don't think it compares at all with Active Sky, which just looks much better.  

[Aglos77 182]

I will buy it when my bad economy allows it, I have it on xplane and just for the historical climate it's worth it.