weird clouds , flat

[boeingornotgoing]

Merry Christmas

 

taking a Christmas flight and looked down to see odd clouds 

[sundog]

This happens if SMP is told to create unnaturally thick stratus clouds, and you've set SMP's stratiform representation setting to solid overcast. From what I gather, this tends to happen with the NOAA weather plugin.

So - you can switch to a different weather source, or switch to a different stratiform setting in SMP to avoid this.

Edited December 26, 2017 by sundog

[sundog]

Or, I could say it's a Christmas easter egg that makes the clouds look like patterns reminiscent of snowflakes...

[boeingornotgoing]

heh heh. ,  gotcha thanks for the reply.   I will take a look at the settings.    looking forward to hearing more on terramax seasons

Edited December 25, 2017 by boeingornotgoing

[boeingornotgoing]

17 hours ago, sundog said:

This happens if SMP is told to create unnaturally thick stratus clouds, and you've set SMP's stratiform representation setting to solid overcast. From what I gather, this tends to happen with the NOAA weather plugin.

So - you can switch to a different weather source, or switch to a different stratiform setting in SMP to avoid this.

I’m not using NOAA plugin. Don’t even know what it is.    I had real weather turned on in xplane.     I also don’t use RWC 

[boeingornotgoing]

@sundog

Hello 

does my above answer make your reply any different?  Thanks 

[sundog]

Not really - it just means that unnatural cloud thickness values for overcast clouds are being received via X-Plane's METAR data as opposed to some other engine. Anecdotally this seems to happen more often when NOAA is in the mix, but it's still possible with X-Plane's default weather engine too.

My recommendation is still to switch SMP's stratiform setting to HD puffs from solid overcast if this is happening often for you. Using RWC should also prevent this from happening.

 

[boeingornotgoing]

here is side by side Images of different  smp settings.  as long as I dont use stratiform. then the issue goes away

[boeingornotgoing]

maybe ill redownload rwc.   thanks

[dirt_mcgirt]

I’ve been seeing the same thing. I had the NOAA plugin but i’ve since deleted it — did re-installing RWC fix this, boeing? I like using stratoform settings to practice instruments so i don’t want to write them off as unusable.

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[dirt_mcgirt]

Re-downloaded RWC and Skymaxx pro with no NOAA plugin....still happened today at KORD I think.  Real-world weather selected. This was on the "broken stratiform" setting.  It went away when I selected "HD Puffs". Any idea what else I can try?

Thanks,

Dirt

 

[sundog]

Next time you see this, please post your log.txt following the flight so I can see what's going on under the hood.

Also make sure your video drivers are up to date.