Please provide the log.txt file from your X-Plane folder. On another note, in the plugin Enable/Disable window it will be listed as SilverLining instead of SkyMaxx Pro. Screenshots of what you consider as insufficient clouds would also be helpful.
They took it down to play endless mindgames and drive you crazy so you would ask more who, what, when, when, when, when, when, and where questions, Chris.
Seems like it's normal. Even X-Plane has runway lights on.
Where in the world is this? Noon in different parts of the world is not always bright at certain times of year.
You don't even have SMP installed, so beats me what the relevance of Mat's post really was.
I'm wondering if this is a Laminar issue. I'm hearing a lot of stutter issues with 10.4x
Stefano, Due to limitations in the X-Plane SDK, the surrounding clouds around you are depicted on your current METAR positions. Far out formations will not remain. This has been around since v1 of SMP, and is simply because we don't have the access we need at this time to correct the behavior. We have a few ideas in place to solve this. They are major workarounds, but for now things are status quo and what you're seeing is nothing new.
Surely you can adjust a slider on your own in live time and see the difference if you so desire? Screenshots aren't going to change much, and because it's a slider it's not as if you'll be able to get the slider to "exactly" where you saw it in a manuals' screenshots. Anyways, I'll let Frank answer the rest here.
X-Plane's VRAM numbers in the rendering window are NOTHING to go by. SkyMaxx Pro actually does API calls TO your video card to get true numbers. Rendering settings numbers are essentially junk, so what SMP 3 says you have...is what you have.
SkyMaxx Pro 3 was NOT made with any one weather injector in mind, so I'm not entirely clear where you got that from. We are aware of FS Global Weather, but of course we're not responsible for how it decides when/where/how to load X-Plane weather. You'd need to take that up with them (even though I realize this is an informational post).