#Is skymaxx pro review update#
XVision now works fine with X-Plane 11.30, UWXP is getting a major update and SkyMaxx is still there.
We know that 圎nviro 1.10 is coming, it’s not around the corner but it’s near. It’s a busy moment speaking about the weather enhancement/injector plugins, a lot of news and new products are being released and xAmbiance isn’t even the last one. I’m here to say if you should buy it or not. I’m very satisfied with they work they did, next is a picture taken around Arlanda.īy using the plugin you will notice that also the textures of the streets and the light quality changes as the snow’s on the ground. I mean, last week it was freezing in Rome and cold does not mean tonnes of snow as X-Plane thought! I don’t know how the plugin controls the seasons, but I guess (as I noticed) that it’s all about temperature.Īlso other plugins worked like this, but xAmbience is more trustable. It has to be clear that the seasonal textures won’t work over Orthos, but the developers are planning to introduce this feature very soon (this will be a revolution in X-Plane).
#Is skymaxx pro review install#
Just heavy.Īnyway, as you manage to install it into the plugin package, the control of seasons it’s better than TerraMaxx, a very good work. The seasons textures package, to be downloaded separately, it’s about six gigabytes compressed. I find curious the fact about the waves, I had fun looking at how they were implemented with the sliders, at low altitudes it changes a lot. You don’t only have control on the usual things as water texture, reflection detail and so on, but also on the behaviour of the waves, water detail level and sun glitter size. The water settings are kind of fun, I spent a lot of time looking at how each slider changes everything. Of course this plugin comes with a custom post processing feature that makes the visuals more realistic and it controls the shaders too.ĭuring the tests we made it seems that you have to keep HDR on in order to view outside the plane, otherwise X-Plane will crash, let us know if you will experience this behaviour too! My advise is to keep the slider on AUTO, so that xAmbience will do everything for you in different weather conditions. In fact you can also set the RGB rayleigh tones creating sone funny sceneries and either a more realistic atmoshpere. There are some curious things, among the usual ones, that worths a bit of letters.įirst of all xAmbience allows to control the upper and lower level of the atmosphere, as 圎nviro used to in its previous versions.
So I recommend you to waste a couple of minutes more to find the better set. It doesn’t mean if you fly at night or not, you will always deal with lights in X-Plane. The lights are a very critical, maybe even more than the clouds, aspect to care about. I found that the first one is pretty good, but the other six are too dark, judge by yourself.
Presetsīefore we go through the main settings it’s worth mentioning that the plugin features seven presets to edit your atmosphere quickly. The performances are not very good if you want to achieve a good detail, indeed the overcast situation steal me around 20 fps, that’s something High Sky Tech should work on to make their product available to a larger public as competitors are doing. Nevertheless this has no impact in terms of quality of the atmosphere. You can edit the maximum distance within the clouds are visible, its opacity, brightness, scale and shadow detail among other settings.Īn interesting feature, that I saw only in 圎nviro so far, is that the clouds are lighted during the night (as in real life they reflect artificial lights below), resulting in a good brown sky view.ĭuring the day, the clouds are pretty realistic, while the effect they generate when flying through can be adjusted to more realistic standards in my opinion. The clouds are very customizable as you may see in other competitors like UltraWeatherXP, indeed the settings are almost the same. XAmbience features several cloud textures that the user can set through the menu, all of them have a good detail. You can watch it later on into this article. Indeed, their new plugin xAmbience allows the use to customize almost each parameter of the atmosphere, from lights to waves.īefore we go deeper in the review, let me thank X-Planer that produced a very good mountage for our review. The key word behind the massive work done at HST must be: customization. Among great clouds and lots of sliders to play with, waiting still seems to be the best choice. XAmbience, one of the latest weather enhancement plugin is finally out.
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