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Building upon the excellent engine that HiFi have been perfecting over the years, you can see they’ve brought over the best bits of ASN and added a range of new features, which really enhance the weather engine within the sim.įor years, we’ve been spoilt with how great massive storms look in our sims, but something that was missing was the formation and the smooth transition. Luckily, HiFi have worked tirelessly to provide the best experience possible within flight simulation. For once, not just clouds transition smoothly, but now everything from wind, temperature and visibility change seamlessly. I finally feel like a weather engine provides a realistic approach to change. Not only does it apply to change, but you can now see formation of clouds in the distance where it’s supposed to be. No more ‘pop-up’ clouds, no more drastic wind shifts and no more visibility popping. I really am impressed with just how they’ve managed to achieve this level of immersion. Speaking of immersion, the way clouds are rendered has drastically improved for Active Sky 16. Not only is performance drastically improved over ASN, but now you have a sense of motion as you fly through the clouds. I’m not talking about 2D spinning clouds, but now you can see the white cotton candy bounce off your flight deck windows, as you pierce your way through. Your speed and angle of attack will determine the effects of the clouds, but this level of detail gives you reason to spend your time cloud surfing.
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Be careful though, as turbulence has been improved upon, meaning you need to ensure you fly your aircraft safely and carefully through storms now, otherwise you could face catastrophic events. Never before have I felt like weather within the sim could be dangerous, but now it’s more important than ever to pay close attention to the weather radar – whether that’s the in-built one, or using it directly from your aircraft (note, the PMDG WX radar works flawlessly, just as with ASN).Īs I have mentioned, Active Sky 16 was designed to work in conjunction with Active Sky Cloud Art – a weather texture package, in the same vein as REX. Standalone, I see no value in owning ASCA compared to REX4 and other texture packages, it’s just another product, which many tools already do. The real value, however, is when you include it with AS16. For the first time in Flight Simulation, we finally have fully dynamic texture loading, all happening in real-time. It sounds like technical jargon to impress, but let me explain why this is the best feature and reason to buy the 2 products.
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The scenery.cfg file is located under C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX.Before, you would load up a pre-set group of textures, which would cover everything from sky colours to the texture of the clouds. To be safe and allow FSX to re-order things DONT edit scenery.cfg directly, just look at it to find the data you need to fix it. Then either put that scenery back where it belongs or, using the "name" associated with Area.120, go into FSX Scenery Library Manager and delete that area that FSX can't find. Also examine the "Name" associated with area.120 which matches the name in the Scenery editor within FSX. You can easily find which folder (scenery) it is looking for by examining the path that is associated with Area.120. The scenery message means you have an entry in scenery.cfg that points to some scenery folder that no longer exists. Your scenery error has NOTHING to do with ASN. Your conflating two different problems into one. I have reloaded Active Sky several times without success. Click OK to continue." After clicking OK, FS runs, but Active Sky is not. Local scenery directory (Addon Scenery\SCENERY) in scenery Area.120 not found. It launches okay, but when I launch FS, I get the message "SCENERY.CFG file error. Originally posted by karpetrider:I am also having trouble using Active Sky.