antonvs Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 I have been using all versions of REX and have just purchased Active Sky Next on special. I now wonder if I should stop using REX or not. Keeping in mind that there is a significant system demand and I nave never been convinced I have had and significant gain with any of the products except Weather Architect. I would like to hear what other Forum members have done with these two products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 I have had several product in the past and the last one being Texture Direct + SC but I no longer bother with the products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sawatzky Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 I use just REX4TD with ASN and it's an awesome combo....REX4TD for all the textures only I will ever need, and ASN for by far the best weather only I will ever need.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_auau Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 got rexe and rex4 with soft clouds use both sets of textures from rexe and rex4 and with asn since you can mix and match textures from rexe and rex4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orgasmatron Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 I used REX4 + Soft Clouds for textures and ASN for the weather, seems to be the best combination to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penzoil3 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Rex 4 texure direct and ASN! Weather artifact is junk, a static artificial picture, not realtime weather. Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge1047 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 I used REX4 + Soft Clouds for textures and ASN for the weather, seems to be the best combination to me. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perk Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 I use Rex4 TD and Soft Clouds as texture replacements, and Activesky Next as the weather engine. While old versions of Activesky used to include cloud texture replacements, Activesky Next does not - it's only a weather engine (the best imo). In addition, old version of Rex used to include a weather engine. Rex 4 TD does not - it's only a texture replacement tool. Rex does plan on putting out a new weather engine at some point. Weather Architect is kind of an intermediary product that developed from the time spent working on the new engine. It'll be interesting to see how well it competes with Activesky - theoretically it should give much better visuals due to the integration with Texture Direct and the ability to swap different textures in for different weather situations. The question still remains whether it'll be able to do that on the fly (I suspect not), and whether it can match the seamless weather delivery ASN gives you. I remember the old REX3 weather engine tended to "pop" weather in whenever it updated no matter the blending settings, and having clouds appear and disappear right in front of you is immersion breaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_auau Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Rex 4 texure direct and ASN! Weather artifact is junk, a static artificial picture, not realtime weather. Sue That's because weather architect is not a live weather engine, it only a weather engine where you can make your own weather around the world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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