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RealScenery products do not qualify. This is well known. All other products are free of charge for link re-activation, and always have been. This is nothing new for years now.

Ah, yes, that was going to be the next suggestion. Glad you got it figured out!

Hey, Geof, First, we're always happy to reset these downloads, so no worries there. Use the contact form on XA if you ever need that. As for the error you are receiving, I rarely see this one, but when I do it's on Windows and usually solved by using an alternate unzip solution. Let me know if that works out for you. Out of curiosity, what did you use to just unzip, and what are you running OS wise?

SkyMaxx Pro has been released! Enjoy! That will conclude this topic.

Captains, SkyMaxx Pro is now available in the store! Enjoy, and thanks for joining us in the pre-release party if you did!

We have some other fish frying, but they'll get posted.

We really appreciate the enthusiasm, Valentin. That said, life does go on, and this product WILL be here for you when you have the time to play with it if tomorrow does not fit into your plans. Maturity, guys. Exemplify it. We're excited, but here I am responding to you now instead of working...figures.

Be smart, Darius. Do you need to be proven otherwise twice? Read more.

You and 56 others in the scenery section of the store!

He's saying he feels like since it's not out by 'today' as of RIGHT NOW he's predicting some form of a delay. The concept honestly cracks me up. So many folks wanting to know "WHEN", but then when we give a relatively short timespan of "when", complaints come in for another reason. You can't always win, ya know? Anyways...no delays. We're keeping to our word.

Judging by the current site traffic at the store it's going to be a tough race to beat.

I don't exactly get what you're complaining about here. Do you have some form of an issue understanding the term "this weekend", or what?

It is a C compiled plugin.

No offense guys, but lets keep this on topic. Feel free to PM over it!

As has been stated, in essentially every test case we have seen FPS are much better with SkyMaxx Pro than that of default clouds This product works in both HDR and 64-bit mode. Almost all shots we show are with HDR off to exemplify that you do not need HDR working in order to get all the beautiful, visual effects this product offers. That said, I will shortly post some shots with HDR as well. With HDR on, due to the higher contrast of the sim in this mode, the clouds are at times noticeably brighter (a natural HDR effect on the sim as a whole). We are working with Laminar at this time to allow us more control in HDR to get this how we want it. To be more precise, the current interface for plugins in X-Plane doesn't allow a plugin to know what stage of rendering the sim is in when HDR is active, which makes it difficult to match the tone mapping of our clouds to the rest of the scene. It by NO means looks bad or horrible, and performance is not degraded, but from a personal preference standpoint I like it better with HDR off. In order to "fix" this, Laminar will be implementing special features in the plug-in SDK so that we may interact with X-Plane's rendering process after X-Plane has applied its own tone-mapping on the scene. This will then allow us to overlay our already tone-mapped clouds on top of the final scene without HDR trying to brighten them up with the rest of the world as it already does. As soon as Laminar implements the necessary items in the SDK, we'll be on it and release a free update to make HDR look even better! As John has now pointed out, X-Aviation.com will be selling this software.

Workweek = Monday - Friday "The weekend is a time period including Saturday and Sunday. Some people extend the weekend to Friday nights as well." Thank Wikipedia, not me.

Can you please make your signature smaller?

Now you're never going to sleep, and with a whole extra day left in the weekend for us guys in the US at that!

We're too busy flying around the skies and not working, of course.

All data comes from the same data you already use. It's how things are rendered that are made better, so any plugins (like NOAA) that you already use will work seamlessly with this add-on!

Videos and Screenshots below! Hi, Captains!, As we get closer to launch of SkyMaxx Pro (how does this weekend sound? ), I wanted to highlight some of the great screenshots and videos already taken in X-Plane 10 with this amazing sky rendering engine! First, let's go over what SkyMaxx Pro is and what it means for you as an X-Plane user! SkyMaxx Pro is an amazing new sky/cloud/weather rendering engine which overrides X-Plane's visual weather rendering (clouds, sky colors, etc) in order to provide you with an ultra realistic sky environment. This is all achieved with the use of a custom plug-in which also integrates seamlessly into X-Plane's weather menus and options so that you have a very minimal learning curve when it comes to using this amazing add-on. In fact, once it's installed you really don't have to do anything different than to set your weather just as you always have in X-Plane! This said, we realize that a lot of people have different perceptions as to what a sky should look like, so we also include a wonderful user interface for this plug-in which lets you adjust sky colors, crepuscular rays, how the clouds move, and more! With all of these options available to you, not only do you get an amazing sky environment, but you also get it how YOU want it. All of this is coupled with the fact that almost every one of our testers notices an increase in FPS over that of the default cloud engine supplied with X-Plane! To give you an idea of the user interface, here's a quick screenshot of what it looks like from within sim: Again, it's really important to stress here that this user interface is optional to use. SkyMaxx Pro works SEAMLESSLY with the already existing weather menus you know how to use. There's nothing new to learn here other than picking up your jaw in amazement after seeing this product work its magic! SkyMaxx Pro introduces clouds aloft with wind speed, crepuscular rays, and full 3D clouds. In my opinion, it's quite literally the missing piece to the puzzle of X-Plane 10 to really make it feel like a complete, beautiful sim environment! Some of you may be seeing this add-on for the first time, so lets get to some screenshots showing this product in action (videos down below as well): Want to see some videos? Check these videos showcasing SkyMaxx Pro out!... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZiQ-mrazPU We're really excited to get this out to you, folks, so stay tuned! Release is near!

Huh? This topic is the IXEG 737...

Sounds to me like MSFS X is your sim!

Engineering

Thanks for the response, Tom. This is a bit more what I was hoping to hear.