Absolute nonsense both of you. 

It was live weather.

There are plenty of instances of MSFS clouds looking super bad. Sometimes they can look good but only if you get lucky with lighting and the time of day. A lot of the time they are bad.

Edited July 13, 20241 yr by abennett

I will repeat what I’ve said before, never saw anything like in your prints. The clouds here look really good. The problems with the live weather and the weather engine aren’t related to the visuals (only thing that I thing is a visual glitch and they should improve is when rotating the camera the clouds edges might look grainy).

All the issues are related to the weather depiction itself (not consistent with the data, or not being able to render more types of clouds).

The only one saying “nonsense” is you. Calling it “horrible” is just absurd.

9 minutes ago, ca_metal said:

I will repeat what I’ve said before, never saw anything like in your prints. The clouds here look really good. The problems with the live weather and the weather engine aren’t related to the visuals (only thing that I thing is a visual glitch and they should improve is when rotating the camera the clouds edges might look grainy).

All the issues are related to the weather depiction itself (not consistent with the data, or not being able to render more types of clouds).

The only one saying “nonsense” is you. Calling it “horrible” is just absurd.

I am afraid I completely disagree.

I fly exclusively with live weather and the clouds are often not very good at all.

They are often the wrong colour, wrong texture (volcanic ash/cauliflower whatever you want to call it) low resolution, unrealistic shape, to name but a few issues.

The clouds can look good in MSFS but this is generally when there are favourable lighting conditions such as the position of the sun, and the time of day.

And if you genuinely believe that the clouds in the shot I posted are not horrible, then with all respect, I would have to conclude you are either trolling, or need your eyes testing.

There are countless topics with hundreds and hundreds of posts both here and on the official MSFS forums discussing the fact that the clouds need a lot of improvement in MSFS, so I am far from alone in my view that the clouds need some work.

 

Edited July 13, 20241 yr by abennett

Seb made it perfectly clear that the current issue with clouds gloomy look has to do with light refraction that in the past had a high fps cost and has since been improved for MSFS 2024.

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I never saw clouds like yours. I’ve seen clouds looking too dark indeed, but not as bad as yours. And that happened really early in the development. Nowadays the clouds look good or at least ok. 
 

The weather system needs improvements though. Not the clouds themselves, but the engine (the way it renders the weather data and cloud diversity mainly). 

With the new atmospheric system (lighting) and better weather accuracy, I will be more than happy. 

9 hours ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

Seb made it perfectly clear that the current issue with clouds gloomy look has to do with light refraction that in the past had a high fps cost and has since been improved for MSFS 2024.

this.

On 7/13/2024 at 12:08 AM, abennett said:

I'd say this was horrible.

 

Everything about it is horrible, colour, structure, texture.

 

It's horrible and totally unrealistic.

 

 

With respect but your sim is horrible 🤔 something seriously wrong in your setup 😉

Edited July 15, 20241 yr by virtualstuff

For me the biggest glaring deficit visually in MSFS has always been clouds, ultra low resolution, no crisp edges when there *should* be, often times just drab and also a certain sameness as it were, unless it's dawn/dusk.  The high end planes and airports look fabulous, often the scenery does as well, but cloud depiction really is poor IMO, so much so that it appears as a mismatch to the rest of the sim.  I'm so hoping we are pleasantly surprised w/ 2024 release...

On 7/12/2024 at 4:08 PM, abennett said:

I'd say this was horrible.

Everything about it is horrible, colour, structure, texture.

It's horrible and totally unrealistic.

It most certainly qualifies as horrible.  That being said I never have seen anything like this horror.  If you're seeing this seems like something is gravely amiss w/ your  graphics settings.

I have a different problem with City Update IX -- whenever I try to start a flight in the DC area with this update installed, I get a CTD. If I uninstall this update, no CTDs. The problem persists even with no addons loaded (empty Community folder). So, if City Update is a preview of MSFS2024, this is not encouraging.

I can get this update to work with a CTD if I lower the graphics settings, but I see not much difference in the Washington scenery. The story continues ...

Edited July 15, 20241 yr by cobalt

On 7/12/2024 at 1:51 AM, abennett said:

If only they would improve the horrible clouds in MSFS but I doubt they will.

You can see improved clouds in the second 2024 trailer.

  

28 minutes ago, cobalt said:

I have a different problem with City Update IX -- whenever I try to start a flight in the DC area with this update installed, I get a CTD. If I uninstall this update, no CTDs. The problem persists even with no addons loaded (empty Community folder). So, if City Update is a preview of MSFS2024, this is not encouraging.

No issue here.

Edited July 15, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

 

6 hours ago, virtualstuff said:

With respect but your sim is horrible 🤔 something seriously wrong in your setup

These are particularly horrific it has to be said.

Have these just now also bad. I see this bad clouds on many streams as well, so It isn't my settings, and like I say sometimes they can look good, just sometimes they render really badly so it is an MSFS thing not a me thing.

 

 

Edited July 15, 20241 yr by abennett

Something is wrong with your sim. I had something similar to your second print, but it’s been a while since then. They are consistently white white now. 
 

The new atmospheric system fixes just that. They will have more colors depending on the sun position and height of the cloud layers. 

Looking forward to all the new enhancements and promises. What's the latest WU for MS 2020? I might re-install. Thanks.

22 minutes ago, ca_metal said:

Something is wrong with your sim. I had something similar to your second print, but it’s been a while since then. They are consistently white white now. 
 

The new atmospheric system fixes just that. They will have more colors depending on the sun position and height of the cloud layers. 

I really don't think it's the case that there is something wrong with my sim. I watch a lot of flight sim streams and videos and I see these clouds on all of them from time to time.

I guess whether you get these depends on how much you fly, I am genuinely pleased for you that you don't get them, you are one of the lucky ones.