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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:42 am
by ardypilot
For those not ready to move on to P3D, its possible thanks to CumulusX!


PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:47 am
by Ian Warren
That is Impressive, not ready to move to P3D due my current position, I'm following it, but that looks brilliant cool.gif

PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 1:46 pm
by FunkymonkeyNZ
That is sweet!

Does one need to use the application do have cloud shadows enabled within the sim? i wonder if this would upset active sky next or rather.

PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 1:56 pm
by steelsporran
Is that a new "New v1.9"? Mine's 2012 and I have to have aircraft shadow off otherwise this


PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 2:02 pm
by NZ255
Does it work over hilly terrain or just flat plains?

PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 3:43 pm
by Barrington
ardypilot wrote:
QUOTE (ardypilot @ Sep 6 2014,11:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
For those not ready to move on to P3D, its possible thanks to CumulusX!


They look brilliant
Can you confirm you got a PM from Barrington yesterday as not sure if it went through
Thanks

PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:49 pm
by ardypilot
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Does one need to use the application do have cloud shadows enabled within the sim?.[/quote]
Affirm, as far as I can figure out, it's a bit of a cheat really. The shadows will only display when you enable your own layer of cumulus cloud in the weather tab. You then have to run the CumulusX module in the background (via the ALT menu at the top of the screen) and allow it to connect to FSX, and select 'smooth shadows' to display. It will then embed a layer of pretty low res large stationary cumulus clouds of it own at the altitude you've predefined, and only draw shadows for them, rather than your whole sky. A bit of a cop out compared to the P3D equivalent, yet still add a great visual effect in my opinion. Got the idea on another forum and am pretty happy with the results.

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Is that a new "New v1.9"? Mine's 2012 and I have to have aircraft shadow off otherwise this[/quote]
The full version (v1.9.0.1)

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Does it work over hilly terrain or just flat plains?[/quote]
Just the flatter areas at this stage according to the manual. They tear on terrain above a certain angle, but work over the water too which breaks up all those too-perfect-to-be-realistic looking FSX reflections.

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Can you confirm you got a PM from Barrington yesterday as not sure if it went through
Thanks[/quote]
If this was meant for me, no I havn't received a PM.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 11:29 am
by jeansy
Thanks for the heads up with the screenshot

Just got my license keys and will have to check it out over the weekend

PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 7:17 pm
by ardypilot
Another snap from a cloudy Hastings. Pretty good for an eight year old simulator.


PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 7:27 pm
by Ian Warren
God Dang .. that is striking cool.gif .. I have a very good friend who was brought up here, his parents place was directly on the back fence off the 'Watties' plant ... Anton follows the forum here from Japan so he would very happy to see this. cool.gif