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If Asobo cannot make improvements due to caps on memory (i.e. x-box or PS5) then allow devs outside of Asbobo/MS to access the engine to read and write to it, so at least us "PC users" can enjoy improvements! It is obvious, that after all these years (and 2 versions of MSFS), that they will not be able to return the clouds and weather systems back to how it was at launch of 2020 (before Su5). Those clouds looked fantastic! Anyhow, I'll add something, thanks for posting this!

There's a plugin called X-Pro Turb and it takes the atmosphere to the next level in XP! This coupled with AutoHaze and the newest Beta release (fixed precipitation now!) and XP is looking and feeling really good these days! Clouds are improving, sometimes mehh but the big difference is they are trying to improve the weather. Asobo all but dropped any graphic improvements to their clouds, they are a 3.9 versus XP 5.0 outta 10 rating IMO. They are reeling it in!

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oh darn! Sorry about that. If one is familiar with windy.com it is very similar to that. And.. I suppose similar to Meteoblue, who MSFS currently uses for their data. I think my "wish" one day is so that MSFS will focus much more on weather and atmosphere, updating to the standards of their aircraft systems, flight model and scenery fidelity. It just seems that the weather and atmosphere visuals and effects have been "left behind", IMO... and weather should be one of the top concerns of any pilot.

This is a pretty cool tool, I've been messing around with it and dreaming how it would be so neat to integrate this into MSFS somehow - some day - along with a super huge atmosphere / cloud update (maybe MSFS 2028?) - AI can do some really cool stuff - and I imagine with clouds etc. in game? https://deepmind.google.com/science/weatherlab?utm_content=

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Home run - THANK YOU!

Yes, like many out there, I loved RC!! Not trying to "defend" this developer but that was then, and AI nowadays can really do some amazing stuff including trig ala ATC... so it's just this guy and "Steve"? Hmm - yeah I call scam on this "claim to ATC fame!" (Comment removed by moderator).

Jorg is a man of his word. I clearly recall him saying something like "we will make it up to the community" when the initial 707 release did not "go as planned". sounds like they're making good on it! Might check this one out..

Can we hear the complaints now? "The people's legs disappear until we get too close, it kills immersion!"

Yeah, it's priorities and might even be engine limitation too. Does anyone recall how quickly Asobo responded when someone hacked their sky color code? They actually included a patched sky color in their next update! Was it because someone was able to hack the code? Or was it because the sky color "issues" went "viral"? I tend to think the latter... speak up enough and they will react!

Did a search in here and surprised that I did not find any reference to this, it's really neat and a great boost to immersion! https://bushtalkradio.com/ Especially like the radio stations and how distance affects static etc. Really cool!

Yeah, I wish someone could come up with something like Autohaze (XP12) but for MSFS, I love this free addon! https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/99665-autohaze/

Thanks @Litjan ! Thought I messed something up really bad somehow... glad to hear it may not have been me!

ok I don't know what is going on, but I am not getting ANY rain, precip, thunderstorms, nothing. There's clouds, and they resemble what might be the look of a storm or rain coming, but nothing. Radar is always also precipitation free, always! I am running the latest BETA.. but I even installed a "clean" seperate version of x-plane (updated but NOT beta) and still nothing. I have the setting to real world weather, anyone have any ideas what might be going on?

For repaints yes, I can see where BATC might alias white models (not sure they do though?) but what about missing/un-matched models?

it might help, yes but keep in mind I don't think AIG (or anyone) has ALL of the real world aircraft you may encounter. So unless someone models every aircraft possible, we probably won't ever see 100% of the traffic. I'm not sure if BATC uses any alias though. If they do, that would also help!

Also keep in mind that if you don't have the model/repaint I'm not sure those aircraft will display. I know there have been some GA aircraft I studied on FR24 that didn't show in MSFS and I think this is why. Otherwise, it's been solid. BATC just needs to keep their heads down and work on separation, for example start where it's easier - at cruise FL380 and aircraft coming at me head on. I'm not sure which is the appropriate pilot for ATC to "ask" to either change altitude or turn but someone needs to! It's not a game of chicken. I realize other scenarios aren't nearly as easy to detect and correct - but why not start there?

One thing I just noticed thats neat, is in bad weather areas (I'm over Texas right now) there's no traffic in this area, feel like I shouldn't here here LOL. Now, if BATC could just get some traffic avoidance programmed into their system - after all that is what ATC is mainly about right? Traffic separation :) But I like what I see so far..

Works great so far!

BATC Live Traffic released in experimental branch - going to try this! https://wiki.beyondatc.net/knowledge-base/live-traffic/

Don't recall if I ever had that one if I do it's buried in my attic. How about this? https://www.myabandonware.com/game/scenery-disk-12-3bo

okay then! wow..

Yes I'd like to see that too - guess I missed it too? I read every day here.

The live weather is one of the only things I wish Asobo would either allow other companies to expand on (i.e. open the code up to AS or whoever), or if they just cannot give it up then for them to do a major overhaul on weather. It's not horrible by any means the way it is now, but in certain situations it's very repetitive or depiction looks the same in one part of the world versus another. Seems like the system almost always uses cumulus version of clouds, and yesterday I had these terrible looking very dark cumulus clouds around San Diego KSAN that were atrocious! Other times, the weather can look pretty good. Still missing towering cumulus, cumulonimbus, supercells, etc. as well.