mr_happyland

Yes! That is what's happening. OK...so basically when using SkyMaxx only use the cumulus settings if I want to fly thru that layer. It would be nice in the future to have stratus clouds or a way to make "less puffy" and more opaque cumulus cloud layers. As it is now, I can always see runway lights thru the clouds even if I'm 5 miles out. That said, these clouds are such a big improvement over the original. Thx!!! Happy Turkey Day.

I certainly appreciate your suggestions...but I can't see lack of VRAM being the problem in my last example....and it's showing the exact same issue as when I have it at full rez. Clouds work great when they are cumulus, by the way....just not the stratus. Problem with using cumulus is the clouds don't get thick enough to look like a solid cloud deck.

Hmm. Look at the attached pic. I changed my resolution settings from 1920x1080 to 1280x960 and changed texture resolution to normal and restarted. Render options say total size of loaded textures is 147 meg. Still getting the same issue with the stratus clouds. SkyMaxx settings are set to medium overcast. Same as before...when I uncheck SilverLining clouds come back....but isn't that the original X plane cloud?

Thanks for the input so far. I originally had the settings on low when I had that problem so I increased to "high" to see if that helped. I have now tried the medium setting and it's doing the same thing still. I'm running this on a Mac Pro 3.33 6-core, 12 GB ram, 1024 MB VRAM.

First of all, thx for helping me troubleshoot. Those last pics were same scenario as before, just from the ground. Here are some more stills illustrating the same thing from the air. Weather is set to stratus cloud bases at 1200 ft, tops 5,000 ft. Only difference between the two is one has SilverLining disabled.

Messed around with various settings in the configuration tab and didn't help. Tried restarting with new settings. No go. First pic with settings of 800 ft ceiling and 1/2 mile vis. and SkyMaxx Pro settings. Not even close. 2nd pic is same weather settings with Silverlining plugin unchecked.

I've been using X-plane for awhile but new to SkyMaxx Pro. I have v2.1 and I'm running into a problem. I want a low stratus cloud layer to practice IFR approaches. When I do this, the cloud layer will never go down to the base level that I set...in fact it is only a very thin layer at a height that doesn't correspond to either the tops or bases that I set . The only fix is by disabling the SilverLining plugin...but doesn't that just take it back to standard X-Plane clouds? I've attached a image showing the thin layer when I've set the clouds to be a couple thousand feet thick. Cumulus clouds seem to work correctly, but I want to use a thick stratus layer where I can't see the runway lights. Thx, Bryan