40 minutes ago, CFIJose said:

I have never seen a sudden transition with default live, but I have seen them with active sky because active sky creates a theme. However there's a smoothing setting that really helps if you find your sweet spot.

You don't fly enough on FS by default to see it and about Active Sky your settings are not good.

12 hours ago, G550flyer said:

I use active sky as well. I have been using it in passive mode. FS2024 has some quirks with weather, especially when it comes to the set time vs live time. AS resolves that for me along with effects and lets the sim do the depiction. In this mode, I don't get the weird transitions and strange cloud morphing.

What does the passive mode do?. It's still live weather?

4 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

What does the passive mode do?. It's still live weather?

Its MSFS live weather + AS weather effects

I gave up an AS a few months ago and went back to sim weather which is fine, especially when used with Rex Atmos. 

I couldn't get past the horrid weather transitions in AS no matter how much tinkering I did. I followed advice on here to the letter and it still produced bad results. The weather itself looked great but the final straw for me was looking out at a puffy gray sky on approach to LaGuardia, looking down at the fms for no more than 30 seconds to check some entries and then returning to see a perfectly clear sky for miles. If they could find a way to blend those transitions better it would be a better product for me.

3 hours ago, El Diablito said:

I gave up an AS a few months ago and went back to sim weather which is fine, especially when used with Rex Atmos. 

I couldn't get past the horrid weather transitions in AS no matter how much tinkering I did. I followed advice on here to the letter and it still produced bad results. The weather itself looked great but the final straw for me was looking out at a puffy gray sky on approach to LaGuardia, looking down at the fms for no more than 30 seconds to check some entries and then returning to see a perfectly clear sky for miles. If they could find a way to blend those transitions better it would be a better product for me.

Maybe you had an external app forcing the transitions. I remember there were reports that some apps were doing that...

9 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

What does the passive mode do?. It's still live weather?

"Passive Depiction Mode
Passive mode is used with live weather and allows MSFS’s internal live weather depiction to take full control of weather depiction in the simulator, while Active Sky FS provides Active Air Effects and all other non-depiction features (mapping, planning, voice features, conditions report, web companion app, etc.) This can provide better regional variation and cloud variations outside of Preset control, recommended for LIVE WEATHER VFR and casual flights where visuals and effects are more important than weather conditions accuracy."

3 hours ago, filou said:

"Passive Depiction Mode
Passive mode is used with live weather and allows MSFS’s internal live weather depiction to take full control of weather depiction in the simulator, while Active Sky FS provides Active Air Effects and all other non-depiction features (mapping, planning, voice features, conditions report, web companion app, etc.) This can provide better regional variation and cloud variations outside of Preset control, recommended for LIVE WEATHER VFR and casual flights where visuals and effects are more important than weather conditions accuracy."

So if you are doing airliner flight on Vatsim for example, would it make a difference if you are in Active or Passive?  Does Asobo or AS weather have a better depiction of what is actually happening in the real world?  So to make sure I understand, Passive mode would be Asobo weather (metar, etc.), with AS clouds, sky, turbulence, etc? 

6 minutes ago, Zimmerbz said:

So if you are doing airliner flight on Vatsim for example, would it make a difference if you are in Active or Passive?  Does Asobo or AS weather have a better depiction of what is actually happening in the real world?  So to make sure I understand, Passive mode would be Asobo weather (metar, etc.), with AS clouds, sky, turbulence, etc? 

Passive mode adds AS turbulence and keeps MSFS WX.  This is what I use.  I still find it strange people want to go back to using WX bubbles where the weather is always going to be the same around you with transitions.  I can see for maybe GA local flying but for airliner flying, it's nice to see actual WX ahead of you (ie foggy along a coast, a front, etc).  Why do people want to go back to using old FSX technology?  

 

My flight this afternoon Paris Roissy Charles de Gaulle-Brest

FS24 live weather by default

 

 

FS24 Live Weather by Active Sky

42 minutes ago, filou said:

 

My flight this afternoon Paris Roissy Charles de Gaulle-Brest

FS24 live weather by default

 

 

FS24 Live Weather by Active Sky

Is this active or passive mode?

7 minutes ago, Zimmerbz said:

Is this active or passive mode?

I only use Active mode!

2 hours ago, Zimmerbz said:

Is this active or passive mode?

There's no point in comparing passive mode as it will use live weather so it's the same 😉

22 hours ago, filou said:

You don't fly enough on FS by default to see it and about Active Sky your settings are not good.

Are you serious Filou?

I've never had a disagreement with you here at AVSIM or the ORBX forum so there's definitely a language problem here. I'll ignore this post. No need to explain.

So, decided to pull the trigger on AS, as I like to dabble with making things work/better in my sims.

Used the settings I saw listed here for transition and the like. I'm going with the passive mode as I feel the clouds are pretty decent in 2024 but, would like what AS adds.

Let me know if I'm doing this right, if you would. I'm starting AS, then 2024. Go to a free flight and pick a spot. Basically, it sounds as though I should touch nothing as far as weather goes in 2024 as AS will handle what I have set (live). Is this correct? I read the original question of the OP but, I don't think that was for passive mode. Any help appreciated.

8 minutes ago, 0stones0 said:

So, decided to pull the trigger on AS, as I like to dabble with making things work/better in my sims.

Used the settings I saw listed here for transition and the like. I'm going with the passive mode as I feel the clouds are pretty decent in 2024 but, would like what AS adds.

Let me know if I'm doing this right, if you would. I'm starting AS, then 2024. Go to a free flight and pick a spot. Basically, it sounds as though I should touch nothing as far as weather goes in 2024 as AS will handle what I have set (live). Is this correct? I read the original question of the OP but, I don't think that was for passive mode. Any help appreciated.

So in Passive mode you don't need to worry about any of the WX settings in ASFS or the transitions since you will still be using Live WX in MSFS.  Make sure in ASFS under 'WX Control' you choose Passive in the 'Sim Depiction Mode' menu.  It works better if you import a Simbrief flight plan but it's not necessary.  In MSFS, make sure you have Live WX enabled.  Passive mode is only going to add the turbulence effects (which it does well).