Looked just like something on a pilots-eye etc, kind of misty and low ground hogging clouds, headed 77degrees from lowi to gain speed at 1k/min, banked left then on auto pilot to climb to 12k, inbetween the clouds the sun shining through, breathtakingly lifelike (not a pilot irl but i mean by seeing vids etc)Īgain, i am now swamped in a mass of clouds, i'd guesstimate double easy to previously, and now i'm back at fps rates i had with v3 !!ĭouble the eye candy for the same fps, dang it, that's what i call brilliance from the devs : EDIT, just alt-tabbed and gone into chase view mode, damn, i reckon i am x4 the amount of clouds at least !! Well v3.1 came along as i got up to greet the day, and wowsa, just took off from lowi headed to eddf, jaw dropped as i was plonked on the runway at lowi
#Skymaxx pro 3.1 fps install
And you can get it to play nice with other add-ons that take over X-Plane's weather with a couple of extra steps.I've only had smp 3 since march 25th, after wasting install slots etc then seeing how amazing the clouds are, i thought it couldn't get much better Short story: RWC works out of the box with built-in real world weather, FSGRW, or any future weather add-ons that interface with X-Plane using METAR data. That way, you get the detail of METAR data for the clouds in your scene, but can still use these external injectors for things like winds, precipitation, turbulence, etc. As a workaround, you can configure RWC to always use the most recently downloaded metar.rwx from X-Plane's built-in real world weather, and use that for positioning clouds. They don't send the detailed weather data we need. So X-Plane's built-in real weather, or FSGRW (which uses the metar.rwx file to communicate weather conditions to X-Plane) work well with it.Īll other weather injectors I know of currently send weather information to X-Plane using datarefs, which limits them to just 3 cloud layers that cover the entire world at any given time. RWC works by extracting detailed weather information from X-Plane's metar.rwx file. It also works with weather add-ons that communicate with X-Plane using the METAR.rwx file, such FS Global Real Weather (FSGRW). With RWC, you'll get the best results just using X-Plane's built-in real world weather feature. If you're really fond of the NOAA plugin, so as much as I hate to say it - RWC might not be a good purchase for you. I think the same is true for EFASS's weather injection. So - with RWC, you'll probably be better off without the NOAA plugin - at least until the author can adapt it to work better with RWC. So NOAA really negates the benefit of RWC by how it handles the clouds it removes the information RWC needs.įurthermore, RWC requires "real world weather" to be active in X-Plane, and NOAA disables that option from what I've seen. Real Weather Connector however uses X-Plane's METAR.rwx file to position different cloud fronts and systems where they should be, meaning you can have different weather visible in different places around the plane. NOAA works by distilling the surrounding weather into three cloud layers that surround the plane, using X-Plane's datarefs. I should point out that you won't want to use the NOAA plugin in its current form with Real Weather Connector (RWC) once it's out. The most recent versions of Python 2.7 also cause problems! 2.7.1 looks to me as the best choice. I believe I didn't see rain when using the Python Interface v2.6 and Python v2.6 and that's why I decided to try v2.7 of Python and Interface, but beware that
#Skymaxx pro 3.1 fps 64 Bit
Pyhton v 2.7.1 64 bit ( more recent versions of Python 2.7 are incompatible with Sandy's interface ) Sandy's Python Interface v2.7 from here It can also have to do with the version of Python and Sandy's Python interface I use. Went there and found a true to life windy and rainy day. go there in X-plane, but chose an aircraft with rain effects modeled.Įxample: Searched for rain and found use or to search for METAR with rain / snow ( RA, SHRA, TSRA, SN ) I've had that experience in the past with the NOAA plugin, but now, and I really don't know what I did different, it works.