parses the raw METAR Weather reports used by X-Plane, and works directly with SkyMaxx Pro or newer to represent that Weather as accurately as possible. What is this thing? Thank you for purchasing real Weather Connector by Sundog Software! real Weather Connector (RWC).
This is either an oversight by the developers or proof that skymaxx is not meant to be used when flying in the flight levels.Example: bachelor of science Search Real Weather Connector (version 1.1) - X-Aviation As a result I ended up flying from the East coast of the United States to the west coast, alongside the exact same cirrus cloud, that does not make for a convincing simulation. The texturelayer which makes up the clouds is not fixed to the ground, or even more realistically the air, but to the airplane. As you fly along just above or below these clouds, it becomes apparent that they are flying along with the airplane. It appears as an infinitely thin layer, much like overcast layer, which is stationary with respect the the aircraft. Lastly, and this may be a simple fix by the developers, is the cirrus cloud layer. It is not convincing at all especially compared to the default x-plane clouds which are made up of particles and interact with the aircraft in a way that looks somewhat convincing. This results in a choppy effect as each layer disappears as you progress through the onion of a cloud. While flying through the clouds you can make out distinct layers in them, as if they were generated by many flat layers compacted into a cloud shape. while they may result in some awesome still photos that can be seen all over this subreddit, They are much less convincing to fly through in the simulator. Now lets talk about the other clouds in skymaxx. At the very least the overcast layer could gradually fade away or appear slowly like the other clouds generated by Skymaxx. The only way, it seems, to remedy this is to pay another $20 for the Real Weather Connector (RWC), and I don't see the point to this unless you have a supercomputer and are able to max out the cloud draw distance to be able to see the independent weather systems generated by RWC. One minute it there would be an overcast layer beneath me, the next there would be nothing. The manner in which the overcast layer would appear and disappear in a instant while flying along switching from METAR to METAR, really took away from the whole experience. While it did extend much farther than the cumulus clouds, there were times where where I could make out sharp corners to the layer, which did not have me convinced that it extended to the horizon at all. In reality it consisted of a thin layer of texture at whatever altitude the nearest METAR reported overcast. The overcast layer boasted about on the website was way too good to be true. The result of having a cloud coverage of 5000 km 2 above 20,000 ft, is a well defined box of clouds below the aircraft, not very convincing at all. However, setting the cloud coverage area to anything past a 5000km 2, which is not convincing at all above 15,000ft, resulted in a choppy experience of <30 fps. My computer is no slouch with an i5-4690k, 16 GB of ram, and a GTX 970, way more that the recommended specs. The better frame-rate did not happen, in fact, it got slightly worse.
That is what I spent 40 no-refundable dollars on, but unfortunately, I do not feel like that is not what I got. I was excited to finally have convincing overcast layers, wonderful cirrus clouds, and a better high altitude experience, all with higher frame rates as advertised on the x-aviation website. After reading all the reviews, watching many vlogs, and seeing the wonderful pictures posted on this subreddit, I was finally convinced to purchase skymaxx pro v3. First let me start off by making it clear that most of the flying I do in X-plane 10 is in the Flight Factor 767 between F元00 and F元90.