May 20, 20242 yr I was already quite impressed with the new XP12-weather engine but after a few tests with the newest beta XP 12.1.0b2, I realised that it had massively improved. Almost all local weather-conditions were matching 1:1 the newest metars (or very close to them) and the enroute weather was also very close to the genereal weather-charts and the transitions beetween both weather-sources seemed well balanced. During my 8-9 flights so far I have only found one single metar that was quite off compared to the real one but otherwise this weather-tuning is for me the biggest improvement fo that new version and a huge step forward. Today, I started form EHAM and there was a big storm on the west with some flashes of lightnings, that we could perfectly see on the improved weather-radar (that is still not 3D yet but soon). If I had to do a left turn I would have asked the tower for an alternate routing because of these storm cells. When I looked on the left as soon as I was in the air, I saw that massive cell that looked exactly like a real one when a storm is approaching. And in real there were CB's and unstable weather being reported around EHAM. Wuaw! It is such a big immersion-gain to fly into these dynamic weather conditions. And I have yet to try out the new icing effects 🙂 By the way guys, if you fly into one of these red stormy-cells, expect to be quite massively shaken (not recommanded). So it's extremely thrilling and immersive having to avoid the weather by using the weather-radar 👌 I just cheated a bit and used VisualXP to improve the structure of the clouds, because I don't really like the default ones. They are lacking a structure and volume, although there are almost no pyramid and tetris-clouds anymore. So in my opinion they have to be improved further. But what a fantastic experience flying in such conditions! 🙂 👍 Edited May 20, 20242 yr by Franz007 i9 12900k, RTX 3090, 32GB RAM
May 20, 20242 yr That's good to know ! Thx for sharing !!! Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
May 21, 20242 yr Our home port. Thanks for the info.👍 Intel® Core™ i9-13900KF - 24 Cores... Watercooling NZXT Kraken 240 RGB Black...MSI MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK...Kingston Fury Beast RGB 128GB DDR5-5600...NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB.
May 21, 20242 yr How do you get your Toliss wx radar to display like that? Mine is rather crude by comparison. I have the latest beta installed. Thanks.
May 21, 20242 yr Author 5 hours ago, dbw1 said: How do you get your Toliss wx radar to display like that? Mine is rather crude by comparison. I have the latest beta installed. Thanks. Exactly the same way as before. Did you install the newest XP-beta? You can see the XP-weather (Nexrad) on the map (key ‚m‘). And the Toliss weather-radar should show exactly that. In XP 12.0.9 we could only see green shapes. Now we can see the different intensity-colours. Edited May 21, 20242 yr by Franz007 i9 12900k, RTX 3090, 32GB RAM
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