There are many posts around cloud depiction issues or missing cloud types. In my opinion, the main general ones are the ones below. At launch, FS2020 was able to render ver nice clouds but a regression happened between SU5 & SU7.
After extensive playing today I am afraid I have to reinstate that the introduction of METAR clouds is having too mutch of an immersion breaking problem, not only immersion breaking but general performance of the sky. Today I was flying from a tiny island in the ocean, the METAR reported a few clouds, after loading in not only I am met from the usual towering cumulus, (while meteoblue had very high clouds) but also when leaving the METAR area I could see a wall of clouds surrounding the island, …
Currently at time 23:15z I cannot get live weather function to work, selecting live weather no weather loads in-sim despite waiting 15+ minutes.
Tested at several locations and no live weather loads in.
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A summary of what’s going on so far
the weather system in the sim is showing a bug in witch the weather can still be rendered as good and realistic as it was pre su7 when users starts their flight before 8AM UK time, not really sure if the same timing applies to other country as people are still testing.
the Switch from smooth, natural and multilayered clouds happens around 07:04 zulu time, 08:04 UK time and this is a video from Perry that shows the switch in game https://www.youtube.com/watch…
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/live-weather-clouds-density-opacity-always-zero/544158?u=dementedcorn327
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