I just don’t understand how the rest of the sim can look so good and then the clouds look like this, it lets it down so much. Pretty horrific, I dread to think what LOW is like if this is ULTRA.
When there are no clouds the sim is just beautiful like this,
but one can’t just fly in clear skies all the time as so unrealistic.
You can design your own clouds with the weather toolbar window.
They look bad compared to what? A high resolution 2D painting in older sims? Have you ever flown „through“ one of these beautiful clouds?
It‘s an entirely new technology, let it mature when there is time for it. In the meantime I‘m pretty happy with what it offers.
Same here. I’m constantly amazed by how great they look. There are odd glitches for sure but overall I think it’s pretty amazing tbh.
Im not getting these cartoon clouds, actually Im getting awesome clouds SU8beta dx11. dont know if its your settings or other issues
My clouds look like mashed potatoes as well. I do understand this is something new to the sim…the live weather and all, but is unfortunate because I feel like some people don’t have it as bad. I’m on Xbox btw
Are you really opening yet again another topic on clouds? I really fail to see why. What does this topic add to all the others?
Or do you think that more topics on the same subject will generate more awareness for the mods and devs?
I really don’t think so, because the mods already answered to you that a) they are aware and will fix things in the next updates and b) there are only some ten people posting about this issue.
Its’s not that I don’t agree with you (I’ve voted on another topic), but I find that the fourtysome topics on clouds becomes a little annoying now.
So could you leave it to the devs now and only post when something new is discovered that adds to the discussion? If I were you I would prepare for at least until summer before this will be fixed and even until december. If they would have listened to your request to make a toggle, they would have done it in SU8 already. So it is clear that the multi-post strategy will not move the schedule one inch. So be patient and enjoy what’s already very pretty and good. Set your own weather, buy Rex, whatever. But please stop clouding the forum with all these similar topics. I hope that the mods will merge this one.
Maybe you should try FSX or FU2 and see what bad clouds look like.
Or the good old mr. X? Are clouds even better in the other sim? Haven’t tried it since August 2020 
Sorry MetalPlains3097, few seem to know or remember what used to be. People get annoyed when it’s brought up repeatedly. It’s a losing battle I’m afraid.
Those that are unaware, we are not asking for something new here. We only want back what we had already in MSFS.
I can‘t talk about FSX anymore, it‘s been ages for me, but in P3D with Active Sky and AS cloud art it can really look beautiful and realistic from the distance. But these are basically paint files that are shown in the sim and if you attempt to fly through them they turn around your plane to pretend a 3D cloud. P3Dv5 tries volumetrics too but honestly, it‘s awful. I really prefer what we have here now although we‘re missing different cloud versions like cirrus, stratus etc. I‘m sure Asobo will wirk on it eventually but right now their focus should abd does lie on other things that directly impact the sim/flying. Cloud art is something for the future. Not the distant, but still.
Really? Another topic?
I think it depends on metar datas. I have noticed that dense clouds are really nice but when it isn’t very cloudy , they look a quite to light if you understand what i mean
I know, I know, and I agree! I just have trouble with the repetitive cloud topics all over the place. Let’s use the existing topics to expand on the knowledge and information there instead of opening a new topic and pretend that there’s something new worth mentioning. Because, plainly, there’s not.
And its not a losing battle, because the issues have been acknowledged. What more do you want? If it’s not absolutely breaking, like the thrustmaster hotas issue, we cant move the roadmap ons inch, I am afraid. So we just have to exercise patience and enjoy ourselves with everything that the sim has to offer already.
To me MS clouds looks awesome if you constantly want cumuli and cumulonimbus- like clouds. Layered clouds (stratus, altostratus etc) and fog are not depicted correctly at present.
There are numerous topics about clouds. Please use an existing topic.
