Third Column in "Atmosphere Settings" has he most changes on the settings panel.
#SKYMAXX PRO 4 AND XENVIRO CONFLICTS FULL#
There is a great need to get the "Shadow Range' right, because the effect is very good (below) when it is in it's full effect mode, with excellent light, shadows and colours on the landscape, but overall I feel the "Shadow Range' adjustment is in need of a more wider range to be more accurate. the change from great lighting (below left) to full darkness is very, very small and you are on the far lower end of the scale at 4 here, and few selections up and you are suddenly in complete darkness (below right). Cloud "Shadow Range' is much more touchy and in fact it has a far less range than before, so in heavy low cloud conditions with break though light or in say twilight and dusk conditions it gives you a heavier darker cover. I found there was far more wider set of values in the cloud brightness and so it needed to go up a few %. but the values have in "Shadow Range", "Clouds Brightness" and a slightly more (cloud) crossfade is required to a full 200%.įirst the brightness. The actual slider settings themselves have not changed. In the first column "Weather Settings" there is a new slider setting to cover "Maximum Surface Wind Speed", which is good because the surface wind speeds were a bit nasty and mostly too strong in v1.06, so you will mostly keep this low and I set it at 5kts. The "Settings" layout is changed as well from the X-Plane10 (below left) old style to the new X-Plane11 (below right) style which looks far more modern, but the layout is basically the same but there are a few important changes to note. the "Weather Briefing" gives you the current 20 local (close by) airport METAR conditions, you can refresh the data anytime to see the current conditions.
Main dropdown menus is still the same with just one extra new feature in the added "Weather Briefing". The slight build up of your weather is still there as 圎nviro slowly builds up your current local weather picture. Clever and a much more modern way of reproducing clouds and common now in game development but it took a long time to create and test for the X-Plane simulator.įirst up there is a new start up panel, with a blacked out space to highlight the version number. The idea is to give an item and in this case a cloud to be rendered as a volume in 3d. The developers had committed to totally reinventing the main engine from just a slideshow image effect, which did actually work very well except for one issue as noted above, to the more modern voxel 3d mapping or a voxel grid, that uses each pixel with a given colour value in a frame.
#SKYMAXX PRO 4 AND XENVIRO CONFLICTS UPDATE#
but after nine months that update never came, until now with this release of v1.07 These issues actually were not totally overriding as a major issue and to the day to day running and in fact all could have been rectified quite easily with a just simple update. Some clouds were very noticeable in the (cloud) images went the wrong direction, a black line on the horizon is hard to ignore and the worse issue is that it crashed to desktop in if the 圎nviro server was off line or you couldn't connect to it, and in the process X-Plane11 went final as well, so there was no update to X-Plane11 in its final release form which created build up framerate issues now and again. The release review is here: Plugin Review - 圎nviro - X-Plane10 and 11 Environment Engineīut 圎nviro wasn't without it's if minor faults. But I am a total convert in the way 圎nviro gives you a complete and different feel to your flying. My very first impression of 圎nviro was that it wasn't something that much very different, but a then I found it was simply extraordinary in the way it totally transformed your environment as you flew, it was and still is expensive. We all love something that fundamentally changes everything about the way you fly and interact with your simulator, in the last year since the end of November 2016 there was not just a simple fundamental change, but a complete cosmic wholesale change of the X-Plane simulator, in first the release of X-Plane11, the update of WorldTraffic to version 3 (coming real soon now) and the release of the 圎nviro Environment Engine or weather engine. Plugin Update : 圎nviro Environment Engine v1.07 by 圎nviro
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