Weather

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by recoilfx

Currently, the best clouds implementation is seen in the World of Planes benchmark demo.

The sizes/variations of the the cloud formations are pretty damn awesome. They still look cartoonish, but it's the best out there currently.

I have this feeling that aside from the back-lit distance clouds, we won't see better clouds at least till the second expansion pack.

You must be joking. World of planes demo has some of the worst clouds in curent sims. Much worse than CLOD. Very low resolution clouds, that look like painted on the wall. I find them to look silly. Go try FSX +Rex and come back to tell me that silly world of planes demo has good clouds.

[recoilfx]

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

You must be joking. World of planes demo has some of the worst clouds in curent sims. Much worse than CLOD. Very low resolution clouds, that look like painted on the wall. I find them to look silly. Go try FSX +Rex and come back to tell me that silly world of planes demo has good clouds.

Rex, as far as I've seen, looks great from a distance, but when you fly through the clouds, texture pop and breaks... it's not volumetric, just bunch of premade textures.

The ones in world of planes demo are volumetric. Did you see the formation layers? I don't think i've ever seen them in video games before. It's like an 'ocean' of clouds!

[Jaws2002]

I'm not sure if the clouds in WOP are volumetric or not, but they are extremely low resolution. it looks horrible from high altitude. While Rex has 2d clouds, they look awesome and the formations behave very natural.

ROF has awesome volumetric clouds as well, but they don't have to many different shapes. CLOD clouds honestly look better than WOP clouds.

[Blackdog_kt]

There is a weather module in the sim but it's not fully functional and deactivated for performance reasons in the stock content. However, it's there on a "use at your own risk" basis because a lot of people wanted to see it.

If you go into the FMB you can set up weather patterns for your mission and it doesn't look bad at all. I remember someone posting screenshots of this from an earlier version but i can't recall exactly which thread it was. All i remember was seeing a flight of 110s cruising between two cloud layers at low altitude and the colours and general feeling of it where very much giving an impression of flying in an impending storm.

Once the graphics optimizations are complete maybe they'll move on to that and enable it, seeing as it's pretty much included in the sim already.

[Bonkin]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

There is a weather module in the sim but it's not fully functional and deactivated for performance reasons in the stock content. However, it's there on a "use at your own risk" basis because a lot of people wanted to see it.

If you go into the FMB you can set up weather patterns for your mission and it doesn't look bad at all. I remember someone posting screenshots of this from an earlier version but i can't recall exactly which thread it was. All i remember was seeing a flight of 110s cruising between two cloud layers at low altitude and the colours and general feeling of it where very much giving an impression of flying in an impending storm.

Once the graphics optimizations are complete maybe they'll move on to that and enable it, seeing as it's pretty much included in the sim already.

Try this thread...
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=25717

And here's a couple more. The first one above an overcast and the second one diving down to go through it.






I've been experimenting with different weather settings and unfortunately the two things which are certain with the current build are 1) its a frame killer if you up the complexity (i.e. layers and areas) and 2) its unstable and will lead to crashes.

[Tavingon]

After the new stunning patch, I hope they can implement great weather cycles!

[Chivas]

Like Blackdog says moving clouds and weather patterns are modeled in the sim, but arn't fully implemented as yet. Stay tuned for further patches.