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Captains, It is with a lot of enthusiasm and excitement that I get the opportunity to announce SkyMaxx Pro v4.0 to you today! A few people have speculated out there on whether we were announcing the next version soon, or what may be in it, and today we can tell you a whole lot more! Without question, SkyMaxx Pro v4 is going to be our most exciting of the SkyMaxx Pro series to date. The features it brings to the X-Plane experience are pretty awesome, so without further ado, the feature list for SkyMaxx Pro v4 is as follows (a preview video will follow soon): - Double your maximum cloud draw area! Big performance improvements allow clouds to be drawn across an area up to 320 km across surrounding your plane. Go ahead and crank up SMP's cloud draw area setting and achieve fast, realistic scenes at FL300 and above. - Did we mention big performance improvements? SMP4 is faster than ever. - New 3D precipitation system that represents rain, sleet, wet snow, and dry snow - as well as mixed precipitation that responds automatically to the ambient temperature. Precipitation is even lit by your landing lights! And an whole new precipitation control panel lets you tweak its appearance to your own liking. - Precipitation is tied to individual clouds in SMP4. Rain will start and stop realistically as you fly underneath or through the clouds. - All-new "HD Cloud Puffs" overcast representation! Fly through large, thick overcast layers built from real HD cloud photos, without killing your framerate. Overcast clouds have never looked so good from above and below. - Higher-resolution scattered and broken cumulus clouds, with twice the resolution as SMP3. - Cirrus and cirrocumulus clouds now move realistically relative to your plane's motion. - Works better than ever with Real Weather Connector: more accurate representations of ground fog, thunderstorm placement, and stratus/overcast cloud placement when used with RWC. - Adjusts lighting on distant cloud puffs at night ...and a few more unannounced features yet to come! Screenshots (Click to see large view): Showing the new, doubled maximum cloud draw distance (both images above 30,000 ft) with the new overcast! The all-new SkyMaxx Pro Precipitation Settings Window and showing off some SkyMaxx Pro 3D snow getting lit up by aircraft lights! As explained above, SkyMaxx Pro now has 3D rain, sleet, wet & dry snow! Showing the new HD Clouds Some 3D rain effects shown. Precipitation stops if you are not under a cloud! Showing some gorgeous clouds generated by SkyMaxx Pro 4 as we coast into the sunset. We're excited to show you more! Information on upgrade eligibility: SkyMaxx Pro v4 will be a paid upgrade for all current SkyMaxx Pro v3 owners. Those of you who qualify will receive a 50% off ($19.95 instead of $39.95) upgrade discount which will be valid for 60 days from the time SkyMaxx Pro v4 goes on sale. After this, the product will go to full price for all customers. Information on release: SkyMaxx Pro v4 will be released in as short order as possible. We currently have a beta team being assembled and about to go through Release Candidate builds. Once that is done it's on to packaging and release. We will keep everyone updated as we get closer to the release. It would be safe to say you can see SkyMaxx Pro v4 hit the store this USA holiday season! X-Plane 10 & 11: We will support both X-Plane 10 and 11. There will not be a separate cost for these products. If you purchase SkyMaxx Pro v4 you are assured compatibility with both (keep in mind if adjustments need to be made for X-Plane 11 it may not work on day one, but it will be as quickly as possible after as we will have early access copies to work with. Therefore, it is possible we have SkyMaxx Pro working on the first day of release for X-Plane 11 as well should changes really be necessary). Thanks to everyone for their continued support in this amazing product! See you in the skies!

Well, by twisting the power button (c) on the GPS to on.

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This individual has already activated, installed, and is enjoying his products. No, it was not related to Sierra.

Nope.

It's upgraded to the latest.

Taylor, I can't seem to duplicate this issue as widespread as it seems, which can be frustrating. I did just upload a new version on the server for you to try though. Perhaps it will solve the installer issue...go ahead and re-download 3.3.2 from your account and let me know how you go.

No.

You can certainly go to default at your leisure. Eventually SkyMaxx will be compatible.

Dist is not an executable file. The installer is not compatible with Sierra.

Turn on dense particles. For the first part of what you said you'll need real weather connector.

Then you had settings wrong somewhere. It is 3% of the X-Plane market. Not exactly what I'd call "very popular".

Well, we make a living doing this stuff. We certainly don't want our business to end!

Don't do that. And, the forums are not a place for attempting to speed up ticket replies or deal with activation issues.

The above info is correct, but you'll probably want to use the regular installer to migrate over just to make sure the entire install goes over cleanly (there are more parts than just the aircraft folder). It will ask you to re-activate, but it will not burn one of your activations if it's on a machine which has already been activated before.

3 business days.

That has nothing to do with what was explained above.

There is absolutely ZERO support tickets in our system from you using the e-mail address you have used signed up to this forum, or even from the name of your X-Aviation account. If you would like to prove your multiple support tickets exist, please provide me with at least one of the support ticket numbers you would have received from an immediate auto-reply back. If you do not have record of such a ticket creation, then this would explain why you have received no response...because we don't have anything in our system to start with from you! It's not a matter of ignoring you at all. You may also directly e-mail support@x-aviation.com. This will contact the same system and auto create the support ticket number.

You can do so at your leisure. It's been out for days now via the Facebook page for Gizmo64.

It is still ongoing. Pretty big project.

We have no plans to offer Linux support.

As the new plugin is in beta, things are likely to still be broken. What you're experiencing is just that.

Looks great!

Tom, See post number 8 in this thread from Jan with regards to bug fixes and features.

No problem!