Malombroso

And if I can say it, the more people will discover Xplane the larger the business and the more plugins. I am an ex FSX simmer and since I found Xplane I never went back, but I think it is like a cirlce of infinity, because lots of plugins are not being developed because there is not enough business, but the less plugins there are the less people are switching to xplane! I guess daring to improve the xplane platform with lots of plugins will bring lots of new people from other platforms! That is all... It is not a critique to the hard work of few people that created (even if just few) really amazing plugins!!! I really have confidence that one day Xplane will be 100 times better! )) Keep up the amazing work guys to give us the best weather engine possible!!!

I am not a programmer so I am not to skilled in those things, but I am guessing that FSGRW creates a metar file that has been used by xplane weather to generate the cloud coverage and so on... Maybe a collaboration between SMP and FSGRW could lead to a solution to the problem??? Make SMP to generate the weather taking into consideration the weather injected by FSRGW??? I don't kkow if this could help! I am sure 100% that the weather generated by FSGRW is GLOBAL and not on a current location. It would really be amazing to have the SMP clouds globally! I am really surprised that Laminar is not helping developers to create cool plugins... FSX and Prepared are the most diffused sim programs because they have lots of plugins available! If Laminar was helping developers, there would be more plugins and Xplane would certenly take over FSX and prepared, cause the flight dynamics are a lot better and FOR THE MOMENT is the only simulator running at 64bit. I am worried that if they don't take this chance to attract customers that are currently on prepared and FSX, as soon as prepared will create a 64bit version, xplane will end up in "bankrupt". X-plane is worth a lot, but external plugin designer need more information in order to make it even better and more appealing! I say that because I have lots of friends in my VA that still use (FSX or Prepared) ONLY because there are not many cool plugins for xplane yet! Otherwise they would all switch to xplane to take advantage of the 64bit.

Thanks, but the post yuou sent it is mine... I was asking if there is a solution to the problem cause it seems that having FSGRW with SMP is the same as having NOAA plugin. The only difference is that NOAA is free while FSGRW is a payware (and a quite expensive one). It is a good plugin, but I dont understand if SMP works or with global weather even having the global weather on then it generates the weather on a METAR to METAR basi, instead of populating the weather globally - so to have areas of clear sky and areas with OVC conditions...

Hi... I have a problem with skymaxx v3 I installed FSGRW and that program (with default clouds and default xplane weather) is giving me the global weather situation so that when I fly from clear sky into an OVC area I see the clouds in the distance instead of having no clouds and suddenly find myself surronded by OVC clouds. Using skymaxx v3 with FSGRW it seems that i am back to square 1! I mean, if you fly from an OVC area to a clear one, the clouds disappear all around you in a second, instead of still seeing the clouds behind you (like it happens using FSGRW alone). Now, skymaxx is amazing and above all the OVC clouds! Is there a way to have the global weather depicted without having the annoying thing of "now it is OVC so all around is OVC and suddenly is clear and all around you is clear? Is there a way to make FSGRW and SMP to work together, one injecting the global weather and SMP drowing the weather accordingly??? At the moment it seems I can only get either the wonderful clouds and OVC, but with sudden changes in the weather around you, or the global weather without sudden changes with the default clouds. :((( Is this the way it is at the moment or I set something wrong??? Please if you have more details or if I didnt set the things accordingly, let me know Cheers

Hi... In the website you suggested there is no answer to my problems. There are not many symptoms. On almost every second flight I do I start hearing the noise of the wipers (like if they are turned on) for a second and in that meantime the sim freezes for a second... after doing that randomly the sim crash. Very rarely I have a crash report window. When it does I send the report to laminar but I never got a reply. I usually fly on Ivao and today I noticed that every time I connect to ivao the sim freezes for a second and in the meantime I hear the noise of the wipers (cluk cluk)... is the problem directly connected to xivap??? Does somebody have the same problem I have or I am the only one that cannot make a flight, land and take off again without having a CTD while descending to destination on my second flight? It is a bit annoying to have to close xplane and open it again to make a second flight... I would be happy to get the chance to make a second flight without CTD. Another thing that I noticed is that on the pushback of the second flight I do, the pushback truck is not connected to the main gear but it is pretty off course (parallel to the aircraft, shifted few metres on the side of my aircraft) If someone has any idea or any suggestion, please let me know... Happy wind!!! S.

Hi... Time passed by but I also have CTD when using the 757 Flight Factor. It happens on every second flight after I landed and I decide to do another flight. It happens usually during descent. On the second flight I start hearing the sound of the wipers even if they are not turned on and the framerate drops and then boom! CTD!!! It is very annoying cause the 757 is the best aircraft I have. With other aircrafts it never happened, so I am starting to think that the problem is with that aircraft. I fly on IVAO, so it might be a problem related to online flying with that aircraft... Is there anyone that heard the same sound prior to CTD? I really hope that this problem is going to be solved. I have a good computer and a very good graphic card (6gb VRAM, the GTX titan) and enough RAM that a out of memory problem can be really really unlikely. Cheers S.

Hi. I would like to ask if someone can explain how the settings of clouds work. There are three settings, including transparency. Well, can please someone tell me what are the different settings for? Is the transparency setting a way to have a random percentage of transparent clouds (I mean, if I use the 100% solid then ALL the clouds will be really consistent, even the light ones, like cirrus clouds and so on? Or solid stays to indicate that the cloud won't let you see underneath when passing over it? Which are the most realistic settings for clouds?I would like to understand a bit more also the shadows settings. Which are the differencies in the different settings you can choose from? Is the overlay setting realistic or it is better some other setting?Thanks in advance.CheersS.