Stopping clouds from redrawing?

Question

Hi,

 

I've managed to create some nice looking clouds for my self using datarefs. The only annoying problem I have is the abrupt cloud changes when flying. I noticed that when the plane enters a new cell the whole cloud layer will redraw. I also noticed that sometimes the clouds will disappear completely and the reapear after a while. I reckon this is because the sim loads a clear weather situation for that metar station.

 

So is it possible to stop this using somesort of a dataref command or by other means. The way RWC does it is perfect, but sadly it only works combined with SkyMaxx.

 

Regards,

Denis

Answer 1

Hi,

You cannot avoid a cloud redraw when writing to some of the datarefs that affect weather.

Comments

Hi Ben,

 

They also redraw without editing any datarefs. Sometimes when entering a new Metar station they will redraw, or disappear etc. which really ruins the immersion. Is there a way to stop this from happening?

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Disabling real weather (e.g. selecting Environment -> Weather -> set weather uniformly for the whole world) will prevent any automatic changes to occur.

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Considering I mostly fly on VATSIM this is not really an option. Is there any possibility that you guys will fix this in the future for XP10?

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Maybe check out the plugin combination of Skymaxx Pro and Real Weather Connector. The latter has a feature called "Never change visible weather" to avoid sudden weather changes due to reloading of METAR and it's compatible with VATSIM. It's not free however...

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I have that plugin, but sadly it takes a big toll on the fps if you wish to have clouds extend to the horizon. I find it unusable when flying airliners.