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Hey, enthusiasm is certainly welcome! It won't be right at 00.00 I don't think (we're EST by the way), but it shouldn't necessarily be too long after either. Our last minute offer for people to get their SkyMaxx Pro orders in ends at 1159pm, so once we have those all in we can ship out discount codes. In the meantime you can read the manual to ease the pain! ....

The Real Weather Connector manual is now available online. We cannot stress to you enough how important it is for you to read and understand this very short, easy to read document prior to using Real Weather Connector! You may access the manual by clicking here.

We are based in the USA, so not quite the 15th here.

3.1.1 is a different version number than 3.1

Hello, all, This will serve as a formal forum announcement that we have released the version 3.1.1 update for SkyMaxx Pro. All customers who have purchased SkyMaxx Pro v3 up till now have been sent an e-mail by X-Aviation with complete instructions on how to obtain your update. We have made this a very simple process! For those that purchase SkyMaxx Pro v3 from today forward, your purchased download will already be updated to version 3.1.1 for you. What if I didn't get the update e-mail? If you did not receive your update e-mail don't fret! X-Aviation has updated our system to allow all customers to update with ease, regardless of whether you received an e-mail for the update! Here's what to do: 1. Login to your X-Aviation account here: https://www.x-aviati...talog/login.php 2. View your past order history invoice that contains SkyMaxx Pro purchase on it. 3. At the bottom of the invoice you will find a link to your update that says: "SkyMaxx Pro v3". There are some important fixes and requests implemented in this update. The following is a list of additions/fixes included: What's New / Changed: Default settings adjusted Brightened clouds near dusk and dawn Cumulus clouds get less dark as cloud coverage increases Brightened solid and broken stratiform clouds by 10% Better balance between initial VRAM usage and stutter reduction (helps framerates for users tight on VRAM) As always, thanks for being a customer with X-Aviation. We appreciate your feedback and support! Enjoy these latest updates, and stay tuned to the forum as we continually announce the latest happenings.

Ben's post right above is pretty spot on.

It's a simulation of scud and for now the best we can do with it.

As has already been indicated, the NOAA plugins days are basically numbered. As soon as 10.5 rolls around there's not going to be much a need (and there isn't one if you live in the USA or do your flying there already in 10.45). That said, it's safe to say we have a workaround in the interim till 10.5 is out. You'll be just fine.

I personally don't know the answer to this, which is why no answer has come from me. Frank would be the one to best know as a programmer, so I have to deflect this one to him whenever he gets around to it.

Definitely confident we have no memory leaks. Not only many times in past, but especially today we spent hours with diagnostics turned on in builds of SkyMaxx Pro v3.1, as well profilers. We can easily rule this one out. The resource information from SkyMaxx Pro's readings will show you complete computer stats. If you're running other apps, building up a cache, etc, all of this is going to effect the bottom line of this number. We do have some changes in the works for a new version update, but I am certainly confident with my above statement.

The price, as well as product information, is available here: http://www.x-aviation.com/catalog/product_info.php/real-weather-connector-p-120

If it is as per your description then yes, it would work fine!

I have not personally tested this one, but I can give it a go. Is this payware or freeware? I don't have a lot of time to research it right this second.

That has more potential to do harm than good from a brand/marketing perspective. We're going to have to continue to listen to customers to find the happy medium on a deal like this. Cramming the UI with more options definitely isn't the answer!

I don't believe that for a second. If you purchased a computer from someone and they format the computer prior to giving it to you (like any logical person would do), then you would have a different machine ID. The bottom line is you were sharing/stealing. You may have purchased it now (probably because you got denied prior to purchasing again). Your support ticket will get answered to within 3 days as the website states.

The problem is you were installing software bought by another person before. That's called piracy.

Kerry, Can't believe I didn't ask this before...for good measure can you please post a screenshot of your full version rendering settings window, as well as your SkyMaxx Pro config window?

Read the post above yours.

The last sentence of this post is all you really need to know. http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/72313-noaa-weather-plugin/&do=findComment&comment=1013058 In short, Laminar has lightly touched via public comments that global weather data will soon be available in default X-Plane 10.5. Look for more announcement on this very shortly. Joan is somewhat telling you he knows more than what's been publicly said, and in not so many words...NOAA will be rendered essentially redundant once this happens. Until Laminar releases more information, I can't speak for them OR him. Even this aside, I believe we have now found a way to force this to work even with NOAA prior to X-Plane 10.5. We're still testing this, but it's likely to work.

Yes, although if I were to properly word this, I'd say to get around X-Plane's short comings of not allowing third party plugins access to the same weather data X-Plane's default clouds use. In other words, the ONLY way to get around this was to build a whole new product with a ton of work. It does circumvent this limitation, yes. We also found 3 layers of clouds to be limiting. SkyMaxx Pro v3 is required to take advantage of this product. It will NOT work at all without it.

support@x-aviation.com

That's hardcore.

Please provide a support ticket number so I may look into this for you.

But they both compile the same data from their own sources...so it's not really right to say what you just did. You are definitely not understanding the aim of Real Weather Connector. As it stands now, if you load up FSGRW or X-Plane real weather, then SkyMaxx Pro will render the ENTIRE sky with clouds for the exact area where your aircraft is. So, if you are over broken clouds, but there is an overcast front 10 miles away, you will actually see broken clouds 10 miles and beyond until you get to the overcast front boundary, and all of a sudden the entire weather scene will re-draw to now show all overcast. With Real Weather Connector it works with SkyMaxx Pro v3.1 to place various weather fronts where they should be, meaning you can now be over those broken clouds and see the overcast ahead of you. No sudden, jarring transition. This basically oversteps what's "not possible" with X-Plane right now by making our own METAR file parser...so when X-Plane or FSGRW download these files from the internet, Real Weather Connector then reads it and grids the clouds throughout the area as they should be shown. Let's use the below image as an example...see how in the image there are clear skies and the aircraft is approaching a weather front? Without Real Weather Connector this image would have actually had those clouds throughout the entire image...no discernible boundary for where the weather system starts.

It can use ANY weather injector which downloads metar.rwx files from the Internet. I used the default real weather option or FSGRW as examples. X-Plane wouldn't allow you to use both at once. Why would you even want to?