April 28, 20242 yr 1 minute ago, MPL said: I made a topic into MSFS official forums, hope you could vote for it! Hire Hifisim Damian to fix the weather in the sim for good! - Official Microsoft Flight Simulator / Wishlist - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums I suggested this a long time ago. Further, they should offer to buy his software and retain him for a year or so to do a full overhaul. What we have no clue about is how Asobo can tweak the cloud rendering engine and get away with it performance wise. Damian will be the first to tell you the current method is really hamstrung due ultimately to low resolution 3D pixels and the performance cost of addressing this. We know there are major improvements coming in multithreading and what I heard from Asobo was that would allow for massive increases in plane surface density (my paraphrase) and that might bode well for getting more distinct cloud morphologies than the current rendering engine will allow for. Noel System: 9900X3D Noctua NH-D15 G2, MSI Pro 650-P WiFi, G.SKILL 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000, WD NVMe 2Tb x 1, Sabrent NVMe 2Tb x 1, RTX 4090 FE, Corsair RM1000W PSU, Win11 Home, LG Ultra Curved Gsync Ultimate 3440x1440, Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case, TCA Boeing Edition Yoke & TQ, Cessna Trim Wheel, RTSS Framerate Limiter w/ Front Edge Sync. Aircraft used in MSFS 2024: Fenix A320, Aerosoft CRJ, FBW, WT 787X, I-Fly 737 MAX 8, Citation Longitude.
April 28, 20242 yr 13 minutes ago, Noel said: I suggested this a long time ago. Further, they should offer to buy his software and retain him for a year or so to do a full overhaul. What we have no clue about is how Asobo can tweak the cloud rendering engine and get away with it performance wise. Damian will be the first to tell you the current method is really hamstrung due ultimately to low resolution 3D pixels and the performance cost of addressing this. We know there are major improvements coming in multithreading and what I heard from Asobo was that would allow for massive increases in plane surface density (my paraphrase) and that might bode well for getting more distinct cloud morphologies than the current rendering engine will allow for. Shame on them, Asobo then for not using the one of the best available resources! Edited April 28, 20242 yr by MPL Mikael Leinonen
April 28, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, Bond said: Thunderstorms at Jeju(RKPC) https://streamable.com/6b16kd Paris Timelapse https://streamable.com/tfevd6 Fantastic!👍
April 28, 20242 yr 2 hours ago, Bond said: Thunderstorms at Jeju(RKPC) https://streamable.com/6b16kd Paris Timelapse https://streamable.com/tfevd6 Great videos!
April 28, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, MPL said: I made a topic into MSFS official forums, hope you could vote for it! Hire Hifisim Damian to fix the weather in the sim for good! - Official Microsoft Flight Simulator / Wishlist - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums Done, and appreciate the turn to positive. Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
April 28, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, MPL said: Shame on them, Asobo then for not using the one of the best available resources! Not the only aspect of MSFS that went astray. I totally appreciate every ounce of what WT has contributed after piercing the armor, but fully developed products like those from Reality XP were available to simply reach out and touch. Shameless. I wake up each day and wonder what became of Jean Luc. I so highly valued his highly significant contributions to this simulation activity. If there is ever an independant Flight Simulation Hall of Fame he deserves the recognition. Certainly there were others as well. Just way too much of the NIHS (NIHS=not invented here syndrom) at play that seems to permeate large organizations where associates are more interested in success through their own innovations instead of recognition of existing innovations that could more immediatley accelerate success of their organizations products. That clearly occurred with multiple dimension of MSFS 2020. Weather, traffic, ATC,.... Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
April 29, 20242 yr After a week with MSFS Active Sky, I'll say it again. I'm not a meteorologist, but the weather matches METAR and looks better. I'm seeing rainbows, lightning, and thunder. Super cool I'm not a licensed pilot but the turbulence and wind effects *feel* better. What do I know? Not much. But it *seems* more convincing and I like it better! (Edit: I never had a problem, especially recently, with MSFS showing me what the METAR looks like. I think live weather in MSFS is really good. I just think this is about 25 dollars better to my untrained eye!) Edited April 29, 20242 yr by JughedJones
April 29, 20242 yr 6 hours ago, Bond said: Thunderstorms at Jeju(RKPC) https://streamable.com/6b16kd Paris Timelapse https://streamable.com/tfevd6 Amazing videos, especially the timelapse! 7950X3D | RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5
April 29, 20242 yr 32 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said: 7 hours ago, Bond said: Thunderstorms at Jeju(RKPC) https://streamable.com/6b16kd Paris Timelapse https://streamable.com/tfevd6 Amazing videos, especially the timelapse! They certainly are. Considering how fast the time lapse is, the transitions are still really good. At normal speed hardly noticeable. CPU Ryzen 7800X 3D RAM 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz GPU GEFORCE RTX 4090 Monitor AOC AGON AG352UCG UltraWide G-Sync @ 3440x1440 Internal Storage 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD External Storage Three 4Tb HDs
April 29, 20242 yr 12 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said: They certainly are. Considering how fast the time lapse is, the transitions are still really good. At normal speed hardly noticeable. I still haven’t seen any transitions actually. Not noticeable though. Using default settings in latest beta. 7950X3D | RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5
April 29, 20242 yr Certainly haven't reviewed all 32 pages of posts, but after spending the last month flying the airlines quite a bit as a passenger and paying close attention to weather along the way and using ASXP since launch, with a lot of "out the window" comparisons, I've come to really believe it looks far more accurate. Less "dramatic" than sim default? Absolutely, but that's how real weather often looks too. I'm very happy with turbulence implementation so far, and historical weather is great. No dramatic transitions yet. So far, I'm very pleased with the purchase.
April 29, 20242 yr While doing my last cross-country GA flight, I had a lot of time to reflect on the differences vs default. I flew from Auckland to Tauranga, 60-70nm (the PA-38 is not a fast aircraft). NZTG doesn’t have a METAR. The cloudscape was vastly different. Default: few clouds, CU. AS: several different layers of CU (and think also ST), at least broken. I guess default gets the non-METAR data from Meteoblue. But what about AS? So I was thinking, how do we determine which one is most realistic when there aren’t any nearby METARs. I could post some screenshots, but they’ll look horrendous as video quality is only at 360p (still uploading). Also: is it true that Meteoblue only updates twice a day? Thoughts? I guess I could have called someone in Tauranga and asked them to look out the window… If someone want’s to go check out what the weather was like: 270427z. Edited April 29, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett 7950X3D | RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5
April 29, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, Cpt_Piett said: I guess default gets the non-METAR data from Meteoblue. But what about AS? So I was thinking, how do we determine which one is most realistic when there aren’t any nearby METARs. You have to consider that meteoblue NEMS, ICON and ECMWF etc are forecast models. They forecast macro/mesoscale weather and for those purposes they are extremely well refined. They are not good at predicting microscale events such as wind directions disturbed by mechanical turbulence or other local terrain events (including isolated local thunderstorm) ECMWF model found in Windy (which I think is superior) while still great, reports surface wind at my local airport consistently wrong by at least 40 degrees, and have been like that for the last 5 years. It's just too local weather phenomena happening. But again, for VFR (and IFR) flying planning purposes, cloud bases and winds aloft, these models are very competent. They just aren't suitable for minute operative variables used for takeoff, approach and landing decisions. For that you need local observations at the aerodrome. And it will always be like that. Edited April 29, 20242 yr by SAS443 EASA PPL SEPL + NQ / CB-IR in progress MSFS24 | X-Plane 12
April 29, 20242 yr 56 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said: If someone want’s to go check out what the weather was like: 270427z. Confused (LOL!). Is that 27 Apr 04hrs 27min (Zulu)?
April 29, 20242 yr 18 minutes ago, Adamski_NZ said: Confused (LOL!). Is that 27 Apr 04hrs 27min (Zulu)? That’s right! Video here with comparisons from 34:33 https://youtu.be/H6F1JQIUKh0?si=YUTtiifR53g4CWGF About 30nm SE of NZAA: Default (passive mode) AS (preset mode) Edited April 29, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett 7950X3D | RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5
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