Cirrus clouds completely static

[cloudfreak1]

hi,

why are the Cirrus clouds completely static ,there is no movement,looks not so good?

[sundog]

Because a cirrus cloud texture that visibly tiles as you move would look even worse. Usually they are high enough above you that it's not noticeable in normal flight, so it's just a conscious tradeoff for better visual quality.

If you find this distracting, try experimenting with the different cirrus texture sets we offer in the Skymaxx Pro configuration screen. Some are wispier than others, and contain fewer clouds near the plane, which will make this much less noticeable.

 

[glenner]

On the subject of Cirrus clouds, do/can they appear based on weather conditions or must we "force" them through the options in SkyMaxx.

[sundog]

METAR data does not include information on cirrus clouds. So with RWC, yes you need to "force" cirrus.

 

[glenner]

Thanks for reply.  Love your product.  As a suggestion/enhancement, it would be a nice to have feature if the application of cirrus clouds would be applied randomly, maybe based on certain weather conditions that make them more likely to be present.

Keep up the great work.

[frontendrob]

On 8.6.2016 at 3:09 PM, sundog said:

Because a cirrus cloud texture that visibly tiles as you move would look even worse. Usually they are high enough above you that it's not noticeable in normal flight, so it's just a conscious tradeoff for better visual quality.

If you find this distracting, try experimenting with the different cirrus texture sets we offer in the Skymaxx Pro configuration screen. Some are wispier than others, and contain fewer clouds near the plane, which will make this much less noticeable.

 

I think it would be great (and cheap) to have a checkbox that does something like "select random cirrus texture on each flight". Basically just circling through the 6 textures every time weather is loaded. I suppose that would be an easy to implement feature on your side, and we would get more variety without having to go into settings (the best setting dialog is the one that's always closed...).

That would be a neat improvement and I'd be gad if you would implement it in a future update.

[JohnMAXX]

21 minutes ago, frontendrob said:

I think it would be great (and cheap) to have a checkbox that does something like "select random cirrus texture on each flight". Basically just circling through the 6 textures every time weather is loaded. I suppose that would be an easy to implement feature on your side, and we would get more variety without having to go into settings (the best setting dialog is the one that's always closed...).

That would be a neat improvement and I'd be gad if you would implement it in a future update.

Cool idea, thanks for the suggestion:)