Aug 26, 2017 SkyMaxx Pro, an add-on for the X-Plane flight simulator, now features 3D towering cumulus and cumulonimbus storm clouds! SkyMaxx Pro 4.6 is a free update for any SkyMaxx Pro 4 customer. SkyMaxx Pro 4.6 is built using the new SilverLining 5 sky and cloud SDK. It includes a wide variety of hand-modeled storm clouds in.
Contents. Testing Configuration/Background Info Some background on these tests.??I’m taking screen shots on my system which I run XP11 Beta9 in a clean install with just the addons being tested.?? UPDATED SHOT: Here is a shot I took tonight after more tinkering, turned out rather shockingly well xEnviro v1.06 Settings and Results Switching gears now to xEnviro 1.06, we can take a look at the settings that xEnviro offers. These settings are what I typically use.??If you switch to maximum cloud settings, on a 1920×1080 res, you tend to lose about 7 or 8 fps.??I also found the brightness of the clouds to be a tad high, so i lowered that down.??I also turned off Post Processing, which tends to raise the gamma in the image too high.??I always keep the weather settings on “Real Mode”.
I have seen some odd issues with the current version of xEnviro.??I’m sure they are working on fixes to these.??For instance. In the next shot, take a look at the fog and how it seems to just end in a square towards the middle of the image. The other issue is in VR, if you use version 1.06 you get weird fog ghosting and image ghosting.??The only resolution to this at the moment is to use version 1.04, but even with 1.04 there are some issues, often fog related as well.??So for now I either use SMP or default cloud mods/lua scripts when flying in VR. Performance wise you tend to get the max cloud distance depiction without a big sacrifice on fps, where you do take a hit is, as i mentioned above, if you try to use the maximum option under the cloud settings (about 7-9 fps??less).??The optimal setting for XE clouds is still pretty good in terms of how far you can see clouds and what is produced.
Default Clouds and Mods With some effort even the default clouds in XP11 can be made to look much better and less dark.??As of now, when I use defaults I’m using a combination of LUA script + some packages for cloud pngs found on the org, in my case.?? I had tested but found them to be a little too “cartoony” in nature.??
In the initial screenshots here, though, these are default cloud pngs that come with beta 9.??I’m going to leave out the default cloud set, as we all basically know what they look like. Pretty dark.??Ill instead show my better sky lua script (modifed) versions. Here are the settings I used for this first set of mods: You’ll notice in the slideshow below, that the shot at around 33k in altitude, the color seems to dark. I later modified this line to correct for this to this entry: set(“sim/private/controls/atmo/atmoscaleraleigh”, 19)??– Less dark blue — I also have cloud shadows projected on the ground working with the last line in the file and it was further talked in about in my other?? By looking at these images compared to the real world photo, I came to the conclusion that ASN/ASCA for P3D still crushes the competition in terms of realism and how closely it matches.??It could just be that SMP was using “old” metar data (and so was the default engine apparently). I should have checked the metar in RWC to see if matched when I took these.??I think perhaps it was just missing the overcast layer. Comparison Round 2 So I followed up and did one more set of shots based on updated Metar data: Metar online is showing: While SMP Metar (looking in the XP flight settings) (shows clouds at 5,000 feet and then higher up overcast at 8750)Resulted in this SMP image with RWC enabled again (more cloud cover this time??much closer to the ASN shot in the slideshow above): SMP with RWC (round 2) xEnviro (Round 2 about the same frame rate) Below is the Metar Report that NOAA shows and the Default depiction (with my mods and Clouds V1.4), which is pretty close to the real report??if not exact.
Default with NOAANow I left NOAA enabled and retried SMP to see if it would pull NOAA data and make a better picture.
Estimated size: 664.28 KB Files installed by SkyMaxx Pro. Airfoil-Maker.exe (by Laminar Research) - Airfoil-Maker.
Plane-Maker.exe (by Laminar Research) - Plane-Maker. X-Plane 10 Installer.exe - X-Plane Installer 3.22r1. X-Plane.exe - X-Plane. X-Plane-32bit.exe. unins000.exe - Setup/Uninstall. Uninstall Jetstream 32.exe - Jetstream 32.
vcredistx86.exe (by Microsoft) - Microsoft Visual C 2010 x86 Redistributable (Microsoft Visual C 2010 x86 Redistributable Setup) How do I remove SkyMaxx Pro? Or, you can uninstall SkyMaxx Pro from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:. Windows Vista/7/8: Click Uninstall a Program. Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs. When you find the program SkyMaxx Pro, click it, and then do one of the following:.
Windows Vista/7/8: Click Uninstall. Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove SkyMaxx Pro.