Weather and clouds and we are good to go

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Originally Posted by Damixu

<snip> ...I wish sometime at very near future we will have weather, winds, clouds etc. which are actually all about of flying and making the flying challenging feature. ... <snip>/QUOTE]

The weather is still there guys:
1. Wind at different heights with different vectors, gusts angles, gust influence.
2. Dynamic clouds cumulus, overcast, flat overcast, overcast with breaks, thunder storm (no rain).
3. Even the windsock objects are dynamic & will point in the wind direction & extend proprtionaly with wind velocity.

I'm guessing the mission builders have not used it because they were producing vanilla missions in the 'early days' so as not to hit the fps. That was before the latest patches improved the fps & it's time the mission builders got to grips with this feature.

Believe me it works! The only significant issues are (a) the poor propeller icing model kiling planes as they go through clouds, & (2) whether low-end PC's will still get a fps hit making the game unplayable.

I'm afraid that it would not add very much to a mission, since it is not what it once was. Everything that made it so good to look at and feel, are no longer working or in the beta. Very, very few clouds are generated, no more thunder, no more towering growing upwards clouds. Plus there is still the pop up nature of the clouds, not very much fun to watch.

here are a couple of just born baby cells, just starting to grow & develop upward/outward... from the earlier game release