Please use this topic to discuss the April 15th 2026 Developer Livestream. Here is a timeline of the main topics discussed. The livestream can be viewed on Twitch here . The stream is also available on YouTube, here . For the YouTube stream, you’ll need to subtract ~ 5 minutes from the elapsed tim…

We kind of knew that. This has been discussed in length 4,5,6 years ago. Seems they receive a forecast from Meteoblue 4 times a day - each 6h long. Details unknown… Forecasts are highly complex calculations. Presume Meteoblue has some supercomputers doing their work. This is injected into the sim. …

I believe you gave the long form version of my post, thanks for thinking that through! In any case, weather forecasts from a vendor provide the input for the sim to generate what we end users see as “live weather.” That there is no network of weather sensors out there in the world providing direct…

Was great to have the Dev Q&A session back, I really appreciate them and thought this was a really good one, I felt inspired afterwards! :smiley:

[image] Fornax4188: CBs usually have updrafts front, downdrafts aft That ultimately depends on the type of CB, which is part of the complexity of doing it “right.”

Am I the only one that’s concerned about how little discussion there seems to be about aircraft lighting not working in daylight? No exterior lights or interior lights are visible when the sun is up. Turn the lights on and change the time of day to night, and everything glows as it should. Change th…

[image] FndrStrat06: I feel like I’m the only one having this problem, that’s how little I see it mentioned. Here’s one bug report on a/c lighting in daylight: [image] Aircraft External Lights barely visible during daytime Aircraft & Systems ISSUE DESCR…

I’m on Xbox so am unable to purchase the Blacksquare Caravan yet - but stumbled on a comment recently where the developer said he’d discovered an undocumented feature that improves visibility of lighting in daylight. Here’s the snippet from the changelog: “Found an undocumented feature that can be …

This has kind of been beaten to death in other threads, but a huge part crux of the problem is where to draw the line between forecast and dynamic (active) weather. Certain types of weather are too ephemeral and dependent on real-time activity to accurately depict based on forecasts alone. Thunderst…

The livestream was full of other good stuff that needs discussing. Let’s not miss the opportunity to open up those to our impressions too.

Go for it! What was good stuff for you that others might like to discuss?

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Here’s one bug report on a/c lighting in daylight:

Supposedly “fixed” in SU3 but showing as Bug Logged again: