caaront Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I might get the rex weather architect. I notice you can set up storms of varying intensity, rain, snow, wind, even ground fog. I think it is what I am looking for. Any advice or suggestions? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Active Sky Next (ASN) Imho, the best by far of the three weather engines I own, the others being REX Essentials Plus OD, and OPUS FSI Hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penzoil3 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I agree, Active Sky Next. Installs easily, already for P3D3, easy to setup and use. Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I use ASN on FSX and P3Dv2.4. One of the best programmes I have brought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy H Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I use Active Sky Next also for FSX, P3D 2.5, and v3. I do use REX Texture Direct w/Soft Clouds to get my textures though. Install the Rex textures then use ASN to produce the weather in atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Kane Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 +1 ASN Probably most of us are using it, works great, works real time or loads historical weather, which means you can go back and fly real world storms at any time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caaront Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 I have REX Essential with Ovewrdrive, it has weather, but only real world or a weather theme, I want to be able to have fog on the ground, clouds in the sky, and set whatever other parameters I want, and it looks like rex weather architect does that. Will open REX essential plus overdrive and look around, and check out ASN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caaront Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 REX E+OD only has random themes, guess I can try them, will first direct my weather engine slot to REX E+OD in REX texture D/Soft Clouds. But first will check out ASN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caaront Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 I load a weather theme in REX E+OD and use it to open P3D v3 and all I get is the regular scenario set up with nothing about REX weather, and I end up with whatever scenarios there. About to give up. Do I start P3D, set up whatever scenario, then install the weather textures from REX E+OD? I will try that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonGekko Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I load a weather theme in REX E+OD and use it to open P3D v3 and all I get is the regular scenario set up with nothing about REX weather, and I end up with whatever scenarios there. About to give up. Do I start P3D, set up whatever scenario, then install the weather textures from REX E+OD? I will try that Do not install REX textures into P3D with it running! As far as your original question, ASN is the best and will allow you to easily create your own weather if you want or use live weather or historical weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caaront Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 Figured it out, but instead of installing weather at egff it was 100 miles away, went to where it showed on the radar and there it was. Not what I want, will check out ASN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caaront Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 My main deal breaker or maker is if there is a check box for ground fog, if ASN has it I will try it, but on videos and screen shots I find no mention of it. I know there is a screen shot of REX Weather Architect showing the check box. Please let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caaront Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 Do not install REX textures into P3D with it running! As far as your original question, ASN is the best and will allow you to easily create your own weather if you want or use live weather or historical weather. Can I make ground fog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_auau Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Think your confusing wa with other weather engines. Wa is not a live weather engine, its only a addon where you can design your own weather eg fog, rain thunderstorms etc, if you have rexe or rex4 it will use those textures to what you have designed in Wa. Make sure if you use Wa not to run any live weather engines being asn of opus or rexe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Can I make ground fog? In a word, "Yes". With Active Sky Next in "Manual Weather Mode", it is certainly possible to set up very realistic ground fog by entering appropriate values for cloud type, cloud coverage, cloud base and your required visibility distance. And, when it's set to "Live Weather Mode", and you are landing or taking off in fog, it certainly depicts it very realistically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caaront Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caaront Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 WA does what I am looking for then, I care less about the weather most of the time, but if I can create my own storm, where I want with the parameters I want, its what I want. Not really looking for a live weather engine. Thank you all very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Hamilton Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 You've already got ESOD, pick up Architect, but scour the REX website before you spring for ASN, Tim and Reed have some good stuff in the pipeline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BamaKevin Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Use ASN also have Rex 3 with OD and OpusFsi. ASN is the easiest to use imo. Rex essential takes a lifetime to get going and Opus is good just bit complicated for when you just want to get up in the air quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Newman Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Another thing to consider is this... ASN is a real time weather engine... it loads actual real world conditions into the sim. If you don't see any fog outside, you'll not see it in sim. REX Weather Architect is NOT a weather engine (in the traditional sense). It simply allows you to create a weather "theme" and load it into the sim. So if all you want is the ability to create your own custom weather, exactly how you want it, the REX WA is a good choice. If you want to see actual conditions in real time, REX WA will not fit the bill, but ASN will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caaront Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 WA it is, but going to experiment by placing stratus clouds at ground level first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RHaas Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I use FSX SE and I'm looking for a live weather engine. What do you guys think? Active Sky Next Steam Version or the standard ASN? I'm leaning towards the regular version being the better choice simply because its not tied to steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Hamilton Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I'm leaning towards the regular version being the better choice simply because its not tied to steam. Exactly. You move to P3D, you'll have to buy it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sightseer Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 WA it is, but going to experiment by placing stratus clouds at ground level first. Aaron - are you familiar with setting up volumetric fog via a visibility layer that starts at about -1000 feet and then goes up as high as you want...say 1 or 2 thousand feet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvanEdel Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I have both Active Sky Next and OPUS FSI, but I would personally recommend ASN because OPUS brings my system to its knees, I get with it 23-26fps in bad overcast. With ASN constant 29-30fps, for me it's huge deference, but OPUS draw more beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caaront Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 Aaron - are you familiar with setting up volumetric fog via a visibility layer that starts at about -1000 feet and then goes up as high as you want...say 1 or 2 thousand feet? No, how do you do it? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonGekko Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 So if all you want is the ability to create your own custom weather, exactly how you want it, the REX WA is a good choice. If you want to see actual conditions in real time, REX WA will not fit the bill, but ASN will. ASN is much more than just live weather. You can create your own weather easily with ASN. It's a very configurable program and is very easy to use. I use it all the time to create my own weather themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Kane Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 I don't want to create weather as weather is the one thing you cannot control, so using ASN and flying the same route a few times creates the differences that real world weather gives you to break up the monotony. Creating weather leaves you with no surprises. But I guess some people are controlling types and like to create and control, I prefer random surprises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renault Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Why don't you give FSXWX ( http://www.plane-pics.de/fsxwx/home.htm ) a try. IMO it works extremely well, It's free, is well documented and quite easy to use, is pretty accurate with local weather and will give you a chance to get a feeling for what you can do before you spend hard cold cash. Best regards Renault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renault Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Why don't you give FSXWX a try. IMO it works extremely well. I've been using it for several months and frankly see no reason now to change, even though I have REX and was reasonably happy with the weather engine It's free, set up is very well documented, integrates with FSX seamlessly which I use (also runs with Prepar3D v2 according to the website) and will use both real time and historical weather data. It will give you a chance to experiment before you commit to hard cold cash. Best regards Renault Apologies for double posting. I lost my internet connection as I was in the process of posting the first reply and thought that my first message didn't go through , so I recreated it. I wish for the "old days". Unless someone cut my piece of string the two can's always seemed to work! Sorry about this Renault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sightseer Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 No, how do you do it? Thank you. Its in the same advanced weather menu that you use to set up stratus clouds.(User defined weather>advanced weather>visibility) but try this: if you are flying in an area where the average hilltop altitude is say 500 feet above sea level then set your lowest visibility layer so that its base is -1000feet and its top is 400 feet and the visibility is 1 mile or less. Lower the height of the layer if needed. this can look really cool in places like San Fransisco with a top set at about 200 feet. In version 2.4 it seemed to me that adding more visibility layers would screw up the lowest layer. They may have fixed that in v3 but start with only one layer and see what you get. The volumetric fog can be quite convincing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olderndirt Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Been having good luck with Opus - a lot depends on the cloud textures selected in REX 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caaront Posted November 10, 2015 Author Share Posted November 10, 2015 Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caaront Posted November 10, 2015 Author Share Posted November 10, 2015 Got WA and set up a storm around Tulsa, OK and it is great, I can set every parameter, from light to severe, will be great for videos which is what I wanted the flexibility for, to set up a specific weather event where I want to. I don't particularly care for weather usually, but if I feel a video or screen shot calls for it I can set it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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