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  1. Posted

    Anyone able to register for the HiFi forms with a Gmail account? I tried on Sunday, never got the verification email and that was after requesting it be sent twice.

    Sent a PM to Damian here but don't think he's been back since, nothing in my spam obviously.

    Wanna post some ideas for features, thanks.

  3. Posted · Edited by MarcG

    This is with Live Weather - AS Preset Control from EGKA over the Channel to France, first pic was with Clouds on HIGH and pretty much what I could see out my window at home, I switched to ULTRA for the second one, pics taken in VR.

    After about 30minutes I switched to Passive mode just to see the difference then back to Preset Control mode and the clouds were completely different (didn't take a pic), think I need to get my head around those two settings somewhat.
    FS2020_20240421_150244_NIS_70_10_R.jpg?e

    FS2020_20240421_152244_NIS_70_10_R.jpg?e

    ...and here's something I've not seen in Live Weather since before SU7 (if ever), proper atmospherics around the Sun;
    FS2020_20240421_150302_NIS_70_10_R.jpg?e

  7. Posted

    Ok second impressions after another couple of hours play this morning, still not done a proper flight yet (will only be GA I don't do Airliners) but hope too later so these impressions are simply with the drone cam and changing stuff in AS;

    • For starters I think the Shift+Z App conflicts with AS, I loaded all my mods and AS wouldn't work, I took this app out as I rarely use it any more anyway and the next load AS ran fine with everything else I use.
    • Historical Weather is a godsend, why oh why Jorg & his team couldn't get their heads around this I'll never know, fingers crossed for MSFS2024 eh!? Anyway, going back a few days and using my local EGKA as a base the Historical Weather worked like a charm, there was rain when it rained in real life, sporadic storms that we had last week were there, sunny spells when it was sunny spells out the window - marvellous! I look forward to flying in NZ & Aus with daytime weather now. NB; @Damian Clark When changing Date/Time the app kicks off downloading, could you possibly add a button like "Set Weather" or "GO!" or something? As I tend to change the date and it starts downloading before I've changed the time so it starts all over again, just a thought, low priority wish 🙂
    • Thunderstorms oh there you are! As above I went to WSSS and also New Orleans and voila....storms a plenty, they're back at last. Only downside is one of the storms had a very flat top, there was no cell so it looked odd and not like a storm cloud at all. Living on the south coast of England I can see storms easily enough over northern France and those storm cells are massive. I'll await a big storm and view look again, perhaps the size of the cells matters to the depiction or something.
    • I've set REALISM mode ready for my first flight later, looking forward to that.
    • Graphically VR will be a test later on, but on the monitor sure the clouds don't look as pretty but they look realistic and that's all that matters to me. I'm soooooo fed up with seeing Asobos fluffy puffy white cumulus nonsense everywhere.
    • Another wish (I may post this to the HiFi Forum as well later); In game toolbar window mod to change basic features including Historical Weather, that'd be very handy for VR users like myself 🙂
       

    All in all best £22 I've spent on an App, love it.

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  8. Posted

    31 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

    WSSS:
    Wind 070° 7kt, varying from 030° to 130°. Visibility 9000m. light thunderstorm rain. Clouds few 1200ft, few 1600ft cumulonimbus, scattered 1700ft towering cumulus. Temperature 31°C, dew point 26°C. QNH 1006hPa. temporarily until 09:30Z: Visibility 4500m. thunderstorm rain. becoming from 09:40Z until 09:50Z: No significant weather.

    Would love to check out the weather there with AS, but away from the PC.

    It's there with AS, a proper storm in that cloud, default MSFS just fluffy white balls of nothingness!
    20240421105202_1.jpg?ex=66263351&is=6624

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  9. Posted

    12 minutes ago, AnkH said:

    While local weather might look way better with AS or even REX, the impossibility to draw weather fronts is the reason I never use REX or AS for non-locally restricted flights. For me, proper depiction of those weather fronts is just too important.

    You make a good point for Airline type flying and maybe it's something that can be worked on, personally as I mainly do GA and only on average 1 hour flights I'm only interested in the immediate vicinity weather. So doing away with the magic Asobo cumulus and having clouds that actually depict real life around me is all I'm really after (well that and proper thunderstorms but I've yet to test this with AS), so far in my testing this morning AS has simply been better with this regard but I've only been floating about in the Drone so not done any actual flying as of yet, however first impressions for me are very good.

    I will add I think it's a great shame I needed to buy something that essentially "fixes" (to a degree) what Asobo broke with SU7 and what they still haven't bothered to amend, it was this reasoning and with their poor Quality Control record (in general) that I have little faith that MSFS2024 Live Weather will be that much better...but; I would love it if I was proved wrong, time will tell on that one of course. In the meantime AS will repair that hole and I'll certainly get my monies worth from it and long before MSFS2024 arrives.

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  10. Posted

    I think it's a major issue that people have got used to Asobos cumulus puffballs everywhere, which granted do look very good but *only* when they're supposed to actually be there. So with that in the back of their minds they're expecting even greater levels of definition in the clouds when in reality it's a smooth layer looking very normal which (in my short testing) AS does, therefore the "pretty looking clouds" are non-existent as they should be. Now I'm no real pilot, my weather observations throughout my life have been 99% from the ground, but already I'm seeing a marked improvement in cloud reality with AS than I have done since pre-SU7 when IMO Asobo broke the clouds.

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  11. Posted

    54 minutes ago, Damian Clark said:

    Then that's a brand new issue we haven't seen.  Sorry about that.  Please visit our support forums or open a ticket, we'd be happy to figure this out and get you running ASAP.

    FYI I uninstalled, restarted PC, reinstalled (same custom location) and it's now working as expected (Historic Weather included). I've experienced this before with other programs on odd occasions so perhaps it's my Windows install acting up so put this one down to User Issue Resolved 😉I'#m now gonna have a proper play, thanks again 🙂

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  12. Posted

    6 minutes ago, Damian Clark said:

    Then that's a brand new issue we haven't seen.  Sorry about that.  Please visit our support forums or open a ticket, we'd be happy to figure this out and get you running ASAP.

    Thank you, I'll have another go later to see if I can get it working if not then I'll do just that 🙂

  13. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Damian Clark said:

    If you have another wx add-on, it must be deactivated or will conflict.  If you are using notoolbarhandle or nohandlebar mods they will conflict and must be disabled (we're working on a fix right now for that).  If you're using an older version of Flow that can also conflict (just update flow to resolve this).  Hope that helps.

    Thanks sorry I forgot to add; No other mods enabled.

  14. Posted · Edited by MarcG

    Bought this morning and I'm not convinced it's working properly, Historical Weather simply doesn't do anything, Adaptive Mode just shows clear skies when Passive Mode shows clouds which is identical default MSFS. Says I have MSFS Connection, the Map is able to lock onto my aircraft, it shows the clouds, but I'm just not seeing anything change. Flicked through the Quick Start in the manual, restarted the PC, nothing 🤨

    Only thing I've done differently is install the base program to a custom folder, but AS installed to my Community Folder just fine (and as above it says it's connected to the Sim) - any ideas? I can't see what MSFS Weather settings need to be in the manual, is that the issue? If I get Historical to work then I know it's working, but alas no joy thus far.

  16. Posted

    34 minutes ago, FPVSteve said:

    Well sure, but it is only 1 click away if I feel the need. Being able to change "on the fly" is a really nice feature.

    This would be better for us VR users who don't want to remove the HMD to click a setting on the monitor, or if there was a way to integrate it into a toolbar window that could be another option. 

  17. Posted

    8 hours ago, Gumerson said:

    Minutes ago, around LEMI very very poor clouds at my taste with ASFS

    Real clouds around LEMI, ASFS CLOUDS, MSFS CLOUDS, XENVIRO2020 CLOUDS

    https://imgur.com/a/trghZnM

    Why these flat clouds, like in the first editions of ASP3D V.5?

    I had to deactivate Xenviro2020, I have bought every version ever made of Active Sky, I really want to love it but this cloud depiction are so poor...

    I got the screenshots minutes ago while live streaming 

    If somebody wants to see the video PM, please. I'm not here for spaming my youtube channel.

     

    Regards

     

    You're using a real picture comparison that is from ground level and comparing it to pictures in Sim from above the cloud layer....try again.

  18. Posted

    13 minutes ago, JughedJones said:

    Yeah, the lightning and thunder in Chewie's stream looked really good. It just looked good in general. 

    Is that enough for me?  Maybe? 

    just rewound and I've not seen clouds/rain/lightning like that since pre-SU7 (if then!), looked much better than what Asobo Live Weather depicts for storms when it doesn't even have lightning....

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  22. Posted

    1 minute ago, Tuskin38 said:

    So? There's more to weather than just clouds, there's wind, temperature, qnh etc

    And he plans on testing in multiple places. He's going to do just active sky, then redo the same test with just MSFS live weather.

    So? I didn't hear that he was testing in multiple places. 

    So? A selling point of this product is the better cloud depiction, he should've started with that.. 

  24. Posted

    14 minutes ago, LondonController said:

    If you knew anything about me or my streams you would know that I was very excited for AS for MSFS. Was really interested to see what it would bring different from default. It brought absolutley nothing different personally - and in fact actually looked worse than default. And I had to pay for the privilege.

    Other people with Flow and 'Toolbar Mods' experienced the same issue as me with weird weather depiction. So what does this product actually do? They can't change the weather depiction because the API, then can't add a weather radar because of the API. I know this isn't their fault and I'm sure they would love to change these things, but I don't get (and still don't) what I am paying £25 for?

    Don't you think you should've asked those questions before you bought it?!
    You're the problem with todays review junkies on streaming sites, quick jump in and have a go, if it doesn't work you shout from the roof tops not to buy a product even though common sense dictates you wait - patiently - to see if there's a reason, but no it's DON'T BUY isn't it...

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  25. Posted

    11 minutes ago, LondonController said:

    Hi,

    I am not using the notoolbarhandle mod anyway - so that isn't the issue. I keep seeing people saying "oh it's working" - but what is really working? I personally don't understand the point in the product, what benefit is there of having it?

    I would say I was very patient with the product - I was like in front of 700+ viewers and tried to do multiple things to get it working. I concluded that at the moment, it was a pretty pointless purchase for me. There wasn't anything in it that I don't already get from default WX in MSFS.

    Jamie

    seems to me you didn't want to like it from the start, how you can form an opinion in less than 2 hours after release without trying to at least see why it's not working for you before streaming to the general public.

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