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Left the Freeworld livery for a bit to fly through some of my favourite 757 liveries (finally bought the FF757... )... Also because we don't have one... yet... Yes I know Northwest never had any 757s with winglets. So shoot me.

Jackson Airport WY. The Grand Tetons background.

Because crop dusting was too mainstream...

Lufthansa promo

Huey I am well aware of the competition and to be honest I am not a big fan, the approach is outdated and not as volumetric.... I mean this in a very nice way, maybe FSX/P3D is what you are looking for...... Our goal isn't to make a REX clone and this will never be our focus.....Not to say REX isnt beautiful, but pictures in the sky are not what we want. My vision of SM is to have beautiful cloud formations that are volumetric and realistic, something pretty and practical for flight simulation. As far as your assestment of the SS's I just provided if you look at them you will see we are adding more details to the clouds, again this is a very early look at them. I usually hesistate posting such images since users tend to jump to conclusions. In this case I wanted to post some images as to say "hey look we are working on things for you" , but that has backfired and my update is crap according to Huey.....If I dont post anything I see things like "SkyMAXX is Falling Apart in a Ball of Fire".....Damned if I do and damned if I dont..... Updates to SkyMaxx are not always geared towards visual enhancements BTW, most importantly, stability of the promised product was our initial focus. Now that we have this, as shown in the above images(which backfired), we are focused on making SkyMAXX more visually appealing.......

Thanks for your answer John, I am sorry to say this, but even in WiP, what you show here is more or less the same thing we have ( trust me, don't want to criticize or have such non-constructive behavior ) Don't know what the others think, but I would rather wait one year or more to have a true ground breaking version, than download every two months a slightly better version but with more or less the same things behind the scene. I don't know how you work, and how X-Plane handle that, but can we hope for such wonders in the X-Plane 10 run ? Or this is simply impossible due to actual technical limitations ? What shocks me the most now is the blurriness of the clouds edges... On nice weather, cumulus are very neat on a blue sky

I see your point.....First most of those WOW shots are when HDR was an issue, that is not coming back. I did update a couple of textures in a recent release I think it will be better to bring back the old ones very soon...... Hang tight! As far as going downhill, this has been the oposite. Right now we are limited in the SDK but we are working on the code to bring even more WOW to SkyMAXX, below is a very early look at what we have cooking. Ill talk about it more once we have it all worked out...... Keep in mind these are very early shots, and things like texture blending are still being worked.....

Clarks fork Canyon with Pilot peak and Index along the Beartooth highway in Wyoming.

This is the slightly edited version of the shot I posted in the XPMaxx Competition.

I dont feel attacked Valintin and I am concerned with feedback from the community, I responded to the OP's concerns with insite on what we are working on to show how organic SkyMAXX is. You responded with REX, as if I am not aware of REX. Your reply to my images were negative, you dont have to be in love with them but asking a few questions as to whats going on would of warrented a conversation from my side. Some answers you may have had about the images could of possibly been answered with thoughtful conversation along with answers to our future goals..... Instead you went ahead and decided to state that the images do not look any different when they obviously are, now Im more focused on replying to your antics versus discussing SkyMAXX and our future plans.... To be fair Valintin, this happens often in the community and maybe this is why my participation isn't as frequent as it use to be. Nobody wants to join a conversation and always be in a defensive stance..... Maybe I do feel a tiny bit attacked now that I think about it.....

This update doesn't reflect all the work that's been done over the past few months. There's quite a bit of other work that I'm excited to show but I'd like to get a few more parts completed before I make some renders in order to show a more complete picture of how things are looking. It's definitely time for an update though! I added the final details and adjustments to the pedestal recently so here's a few renders! Hope you enjoy, and don't hesitate to let me know if you think there's something wrong! Cheers!

I see myself as a pretty loyal customer of SkyMaxx after buying it full price, day one so please don't see this a rant. I just think SkyMaxx has so much potential and am baffled by the recent updates. On day one, SkyMaxx looked amazing. There was room for improvement but the result was excellent. Huge Fluffy Clouds Everywhere! These look incredible Today I flew an a 7 hour flight and had clouds below me all the way provided by SkyMaxx v1.3 I had a good opportunity to have a good look and I was pretty disappointed, I mean what's going on? All my sliders are on the far right hand side/max. Including cloud detail, draw distance, max size and min size. This was three solid layers of cloud (overcast) and it's still patchy Even on the ground you can see weird wisps in the air Different flight but you get the idea I included this one to show it isn't all bad. At least the clouds look decent from the side.

How on earth can you compare the WIP shots to those that the original thread starter posted? I'm not even seeing a close resemblance... Read the forums and you'll quickly learn you are almost alone with that thought. Sounds like P3D or FS X is calling your name. Really though, Valentin. You have a pretty negative tone in almost all of your posts (no matter the subject) all the time. A change in your way of speaking would be a breath of fresh air.

History shows that you will have to wait.

Try mine. If that does not work, post in the FSE forums.

"Soarin Wyoming" Location: The Grand Tetons Addons: SkyMaxx Pro, Real Terra Haze, HD Mesh V2, g2xpl

Cody Wyoming, eastern door step to Yellowstone. Actually heading that way in June for 2 weeks. Level 18 orthos.

Sky World Caranado C90 Simheaven Swiss alps level 17 SkyMaxx scattered

Title: "Final Frontier" Aircraft: Default Cessna 172 Effects: MAXX FX and SkyMAXX