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Here are a few more images.

Hey efis. Those were a bit more artistic in nature and were posted just to show that boundaries can be pushed with the app. As I mentioned I will be putting more images out there, and those will show realistic view and some that are on the artistic side. Atmos gives a user much flexibility to create.

Hi All. I wanted to post some images here to show the sort of results you can achieve with Atmos. Here is a first set and I will post more.

Hi Marc and Ian and thanks for your questions. When a person has Automated Dynamic Seasons enabled, this process that you are seeing is the loading of the latest files and is working as designed. The reason for this is it keeps your files up to date when we push file updates to production. Hope that answers your question.

Hi Marc. Can you let me know what files are being downloaded? Thanks.

Hi Eric. The dark areas on the terrain in Marc's images show up whether or not REX is applied as this is specific to the Bing source imagery that is brought in into the sim.

Hi Doering. If I understand your question correctly, the thickness of the snow can be adjusted via a control in the MSFS Weather modal called Snow Depth or if you are on Live Weather, I believe snow depth is captured in the METAR, which is data used to depict weather in MSFS. In either case, snow in MSFS can look like you have a dusting of snow or it can look like there is a bunch of snow on the ground and rooftops.

If you look at previous posts Mike has posted screenshot of Accuseasons clearing roads, runways & taxiways, think he said it was in beta. Hi Gazzareth and Doering. Correct, the snow-cleared roads, runways, and taxiways is in beta at the moment. Here are a few more pics of the Philadelphia area.

Hi Marc. Great to hear you purchased the app and I sure hope you enjoy it. In terms of the colours being too far into the season or not far enough where one if flying, we accounted for that by having the Manual Dynamic Season Changes work somewhat like a Time Machine. Let me explain what I mean by that. If you go to the Automation page by clicking the blue Automation icon on the lower left, you will see a section titled, Manual Dynamic Season Changes. In that section click the dropdown to select a month and then you will be presented with the weeks contained in that month. With this month/week selection functionality, you can move forward or backwards any number of weeks to calibrate your visuals. So for instance, if the colors in AccuSeason seem to far into the season, just click on a week, maybe one or two weeks in the past and you will see autumn coloring from earlier in the season. Hope that makes sense. In regards to the dark areas, I am afraid that is just the imagery we get from the Bing maps source. Wish there was something we could do about that but we get the imagery that we get, which in most cases is pretty good. As good as the Bing imagery is, I would suspect that Microsoft/Asobo might be able to do more advanced image processing in the future to make things look even better, but I am really pleased with the fact that we get such good quality image content from Microsoft/Asobo. Thanks for your comments Marc.

Hi Maxis. You can always change it to try out the smaller size and change it back to default size. Just have to be out of the simulator, change the size, then fire up the sim and see how you like it.

Coming soon. We have been working on this for quite a while.

Hi Virtual-Chris, MrSpeaker, and F737MAX. Hope you are all doing well and thanks for your question and comments and I wanted to give you a good response via a couple of images. This content will be arriving soon. And here is a copy of the first image, but with a more dramatic evening scenario, which I think looks pretty nice so I thought I would share.

Hi planechaser. Yes, AccuSeason will be addressing Terrain Coloring in some parts of the world such as the U.S./Canada, UK, Ireland, and much of Europe including Scandinavian countries. I did post these images before, but will post them here for your reference showing Default Coloring, Early Autumn, Mid-Autumn, and Late Autumn. Thanks for your question. Default Early Autumn Mid-Autumn Late Autumn

Hi DunRingill. Thanks for this comment and this is a really good point. I am going to Private Message you and we will get this figured out.

Hi Bob. Thanks for your comment and I hope you can agree that this is a matter of opinion. Here are some images that in our opinion are quite realistic.

Hi styckx and Hatch. Thanks so much for the nice comments. It is good to know that our efforts are appreciated.

That is great to hear that you are enjoying the product!

Hi GSalden. Thanks for your list and the opportunity to respond. REX AccuSeason contains the majority of these items you list below, and in many cases, gives the customer a different or better experience. There are some items AccuSeason does not have, and I have included our rationale as to why. To add, there are a number of extremely important features that are exclusive to AccuSeason such as SU10 Optimization, Weekly Dynamic Seasons that are automated, and more, which I have included below your list. Spring flower blossoms in all cities. AccuSeason released spring flower blossoms last Spring. In fact, spring has a weekly transition from Winter and includes floral vegetation. Also includes different floral vegetation in Japan. Reference the Spring video below to see this in action. Flower fields in many parts of the world, UK, Africa, Asia, Europe, USA Compared to the large number of enhancements and updates in AccuSeason this year, this has been a lower priority enhancement but will be considered after the next release along with other enhancements on the backlog. More variety of trees and colors in each season. AccuSeason has a huge amount of variety regionally and globally, which is expressed in the manner of a living world through Automated Dynamic Seasons. In face, Automated Dynamic Seasons, which gives 52 weeks of vegetation that changes weekly throughout the year offers significantly more variety of trees and colors in each season than 2 presets per season (8 presets in total). For additional context about variety, AccuSeason has changed most of the default biomes around the world, (a biome in the MSFS codebase refers to a collection of vegetation type, quantity, and mix) and created many new biomes to better reflect what is seen in nature. This means what you see as biomes in default MSFS has been redone in AccuSeason to be more true-to-life. In addition to this customization, customers can further customize their experience through vegetation options such as color tone, tree size, and deciduous canopy type, with more options to come. With these modifications, more natural-looking vegetation is available in your sim. This large amount of modification and customization results in an enormous variety of trees and coloring, which is expressed in AccuSeason in two ways. First, and most importantly, this is expressed through weekly color transitions throughout the seasons and throughout the year (all 52 weeks have now been completed, which was a massive undertaking). To increase the variety, the weekly color transition does not all begin at the same time in a given season, rather, the color changes start at different times for different areas. For autumn, this means colder and higher latitude regions start the color changes earlier than warmer and/or lower latitude areas. As an example, during autumn the northern part of New England in the United States begins color changes earlier than regions directly below it, and those areas start earlier than other areas that are located to the south or are warmer. To increase variety even more, autumn coloring in Europe is different than coloring in North America and Asia as it is in the real world. Additionally, autumn coloring is different among different regions in North America and Asia so that aspect also increases variety. From winter to spring and through summer, the same staggered of seasonal transition start dates takes place in reverse. Furthermore, this weekly transition occurs on a global level so areas in the southern hemisphere where seasonal color changes occur, happen there too and obviously opposite of the season in the northern hemisphere. The second way the large variety of trees and coloring is expressed is through our large number of presets. Presets allow the customer to choose specific coloring to apply if he/she does not use the automated dynamic seasons mode that changes vegetation weekly in the application. AccuSeason has a large collection of 25 presets including 12 for autumn, 4 for winter, 5 for spring, and 4 for summer. Therefore, instead of just 2 presets per season, AccuSeason offers many more, plus it offers the weekly automation mode. Please reference both videos below to see weekly color transition in action. Gradual transition of trees in different elevations. @GSalden Please share more details and where this is applied. I personally have not seen any information about this. Thanks. Customized trees in upper UK and Scotland areas - Removed/reduced all vegetation from higher elevations. Vegetation in upper UK and Scotland was already modified when AccuSeason released last year and reflects a more natural landscape. Furthermore, completely new and customized vegetation, meaning new biomes as described above in item 3, exist in Australia, New Zealand, Tundra regions, desert and steppe regions, many tropical areas, and most areas that contain conifer trees including many, many mountainous areas. Photogrammetry trees removal from cities (ongoing project) Bijan has done a good job with this, however, not sure if this has been ongoing project for some time, but kudos for the results. Photogrammetry tree removal is an interesting item and is something for REX to look at for possible future consideration. Terrain Mask Terrain Coloring is coming to AccuSeason very soon and will include a more advanced and robust feature set. Some information has already been shared and stay tuned for more. Snow mask so roads and runways can be cleared of snow in winter. More information coming soon. Multi ecosystem in the same area which is only doable with SDK, resulting in a variety of trees in the same area and creating lush forests, smooth transition. AccuSeason does have multiple EcoRegions within EcoRegions in places and that number is growing. 60 fall color sets with much more variety of colors instead of 3 preset ones. The “instead of 3 preset ones” statement seems misleading and incorrect. @GSalden, please explain what this means. Within AccuSeason, I count 107 Autumn color sets and 141 year around color sets and that does not count city color sets separately. Also, this is just the count for Automated Dynamic Seasons. Live correction of fall tree colors by using live cam available in several countries. I believe this is not happening currently for Bijan’s product unfortunately due to his unavailability. AccuSeason has weekly color changes not only for autumn, but during all 52 weeks on a global level. Additionally, a user can adjust the current week to anytime during the season or the year, giving the user ultimate control, or to apply a seasonal preset. 3d leafless winter trees in several cities In our research, we have found that 3d trees which are typically used for scenery projects like airports can, at times, cause performance issues if implemented over areas much larger areas than scenery projects like airports. Second, many areas with 3d trees are extremely limited in size and even though they are nice to look at closely, you kind of have to really fly low and slow to look for these areas and experience them. Third, like mentioned before, one of the main features and the cornerstone of AccuSeason is weekly vegetation coloring changes throughout seasons, and 3d trees that don’t change colors do not play well in this space. Regarding winter trees, AccuSeason utilizes autogen trees contained in the MSFS codebase to display trees that look dormant. The benefit to the customer is no negative performance impact and dormant-looking winter trees are available everywhere that would be applicable as they are procedurally generated and not dependent on hand placement resulting in them displaying in extremely limited areas. 3d Joshua trees in Joshua National Park Reference inherent performance and other issues with 3d trees in item 12. 3d Pinus Sylvestris trees Reference inherent performance and other issues with 3d trees in item 12. 3d Blood Dragon trees Reference inherent performance and other issues with 3d trees in item 12. 3d Plumeria trees in Honolulu, Hawaii Reference inherent performance and other issues with 3d trees in item 12. 3d Rhododendron trees Reference inherent performance and other issues with 3d trees in item 12. 3d baobab trees Reference inherent performance and other issues with 3d trees in item 12. 3d bamboo trees Reference inherent performance and other issues with 3d trees in item 12. 3d banana trees Reference inherent performance and other issues with 3d trees in item 12. Florida Mangrove trees Reference inherent performance and other issues with 3d trees in item 12. Black Forest in Germany There are a number of customized areas that were unfortunately paused due to the fact that REX needed to resolve the performance drop resulting from the SU10 beta and release. We feel it was absolutely a worthwhile investment of our time (seven full weeks) to optimize SU10 performance for our customers and now we can get these customized areas back on track. Black Forest in Colorado Reference comment in item 22. Custom fall trees in the Rocky Mountains. Reference comment in item 22. Customized fall season in Florida to remove fall colored trees. AccuSeason released an enhancement early this year that addresses not only Florida, but the entirety of the Gulf Coast region. Famous Hills in China by Li River AccuSeason does not have this. Rocky cliff islands and in China AccuSeason does not have this. Manually corrected vegetation in 1000's regions which cannot be fixed by only using biomes. As stated above, AccuSeason has had this from the beginning as vegetation has been modified in terms of vegetation mix and coloring all over the world to look more natural. Cleared trees in 100's of runways. Trees have been cleared in several airports. Looking at starting an effort after our next update to do this per customer request. Accepting changes by user's request. Requests have come in from our user base and we review and prioritize those items that are feasible and have merit. This has been the case since release up to current time. Adding exclusions to work with 3rd party airports. When things are reported by customers, we work with the 3rd party studio to determine a solution and resolve the issue. This has been done several times. Instant support and frequent updates REX has operated and continues to operate a professional and fully staffed Customer Support operation which utilizes a modern and convenient request ticketing system. Updates occur frequently for AccuSeason, every month or so, and often are done behind the scenes, which do not require customer interaction with downloading and applying updates such as the recent SU10 Optimization update. Different products have different strengths and priorities. REX AccuSeason’s strengths and priorities are placed with natural-looking and beautiful visuals, the ability for a user to “Set It and Forget It” so he/she sees weekly foliage transition worldwide from an excellent and modern application that is in robust and active development, a huge amount of choice for the customer in terms of vegetation options (tree size, color tone, canopy type, etc.), and exceptional customer support. Below is a list of items that are exclusive to AccuSeason: 1. SU10 Optimization – A significant seven-week investment to give current and future customers the best FPS available in this product space. 2. 52 weeks of Automated Dynamic Seasons giving you a living world of automated weekly seasonal color changes of AccuSeason’s customized vegetation. The Set It and Forget It aspect is a HUGE benefit for our customers and provides a vast amount of variety and content. 3. Upcoming Terrain Coloring that will be automated and work in line with automated vegetation coloring or can be user selected, plus more features to discuss soon. 4. A larger number of seasonal presets including 12 Autumn, 4 Winter, 5 Spring, and 4 Summer presets. 5. A modern application that is professionally developed and maintained 6. A company with over 15 solid years of operation in the flight simulation space. 7. Three options for you to select tree size: Short, Default, and Tall. 8. Three options for you to select vegetation color tones: Warm, Neutral, and Cool. 9. Two options for you to select deciduous tree canopy type: Rounded or Irregular. 10. Winter deciduous trees based on framerate friendly autogenerated vegetation that displays in all applicable areas and is not limited to hand placed locations. 11. A User Manual. 12. Frequent automatic and behind the scenes updates that do not require user involvement and downloading. 13. All vegetation configuration options, weekly automated changes, etc. are done within the application with no need to manually change anything in any files or manipulate folders in Windows Explorer. 14. An application that installs and uninstalls cleanly. 15. Professional, fully staffed, and operating Customer Support team utilizing a request ticketing system for customer access, convenience, and tracking. 16. Ability to purchase AccuSeason at several top flightsim software vendor sites. 17. Ability to bundle AccuSeason with other top quality REX products for price discounts. 18. Product Website

Hi Silicus. Very good points. REX AccuSeason will soon have a Terrain Coloring feature that will be released soon, which colors terrain, grass, bush, swamps, soil, as well as foliage. Here are some images that shows the progression of the coloring of terrain through early autumn, mid-autumn, and late autumn. In the images, I did keep the trees the same just for comparison purposes. I also included default MSFS ground coloring for a baseline. Default Early Autumn Mid-Autumn Late Autumn

Hi Mace, and thanks for this question. AccuSeason has displayed tree color changes starting at different times in different locations this since day one. The MSFS codebase utilizes regions around the world called EcoRegions, of which there are close to 500 of them throughout the globe. Here is a link to a great interactive map that contains all of these EcoRegions. https://ecoregions.appspot.com/ What we have put into AccuSeasons is a staggered start to seasons that spans six or seven weeks. To take North America as an example, this means that autumn color changes gradually start in colder and more northern areas. So the northern part of New England starts to see trees gradually (week by week) change colors early in September, peak in mid to late October, go post-peak after that until trees look dormant in late November and beyond. In more southern and warmer EcoRegions, this process starts later, maybe a week later directly south of that area, to a few weeks later in more southern EcoRegions or some places like northern California. Nothing is perfect in MSFS, but this approach is certainly in the spirit of how things progress naturally. To add, this staggered start of color changes occurs for Spring when green leaves start to emerge slowly. The process in AccuSeason is gradual; one week there are a few trees turning light green, next week more, the following week even more and the week after that, all trees have a light green color, plus there are floral trees that are blooming at this time too. The start-of-spring process is also staggered, like I mention above, with warmer and more southern EcoRegions starting the spring process earlier than cooler and more northern EcoRegions. Lastly, this process occurs globally, so we have built this staggered and gradual process of changing leaf coloring to Australia, New Zealand, and the southern third of South America. Obviously the northern hemisphere seasons are opposite of the southern hemisphere seasons as in real life. Hope that answers your question.

Hi Flic. As Maxis mentions, this was an enhancement we put out quite some time ago and it covers not only Florida, but much of the coastal area in the United States Gulf Coast. Here are some images to illustrate how things look during autumn and winter.

Hi Bob. Wanted to say that the reason we and our customers value an automated and non-manual method of switching seasons is because AccuSeason provides weekly seasonal changes, so if our process were manual, customers would be required to manually update their files in Windows Explorer 52 times per year. This would result in many errors and much frustration for the user community. Below are two videos that show what weekly changes looks like. End of Summer through Autumn and into Winter Weekly Transition End of Winter through Spring and into Summer Weekly Transition

I know what you mean. I got pretty bad FPS as well in FSX so I switched over to P3D and that made a huge difference for me.

The last update was when Microsoft announced the closing of Aces.

How does EZdok compare to the in-sim P3D camera system?