So glad to read that!, because this sim is amazingly capable of crazy realistic and beautiful cloud depiction with presets!, just not in the live weather
We just want this but in live weather and if possible, with greater amount of cloud types.
thanks!
do you know why slowly? itâs basically the second main feature of this simulatorâŠafter obviously flying dynamics!!! but even those includes the weatherâŠ
I would gladly pay for the sim over again if I could just go back to pre-su7 weather. Wonderful overcasts, dynamic weather that didnât change in an instant in front of your eyes, realistic weather fronts, high level cloud layers, thick overcast that went from horizon to horizon and you didnât break out of it until you reached the cruise⊠I could cry almost when I look back at my old screenshots and see what it used to be like.
Same here, looks like a different team (maybe without the correct knowledge) is re-building the weather engine from scratch instead of improving what was existing. It was so amazing/immersive at release that I donât understand why they broke it so strong with SU7 and why Asobo did not make any comment on that obvious regression.
Very bad issue. Clouds have no thickness in live weather. You get my vote.
Can we confirm that adding density has minimal impact on FPS as I suspect this may have been reduced to give us a performance upgrade post SU7.
Good point!. I also have the impression that the original dev/devs of the weather system/visuals have gone, or something like that, and now others are trying to âfigure outâ how it works.
I have that feeling due to the lack of info about such a critical and key feature for this sim, the silence from the sim staff and the complete absence of any infimum improvement after a whole year, and whatâs worse, the actual decrease in quality of the live weather clouds depiction.
I might be totally wrong though, but how come they havenât managed to fix the issues introduced with su7 after so long?, why the radio silence?
Well, I agree it looks better than the puffy stuff we have most of the time, but even then. Still too transparent and fuzzy imho. Also, note the lack of detail in the distance. Previously to su7, far detail was astonishing!. Now even when the skies donât look âthat badâ, far detail is not there anymore.
Look at these examples of some of my old images, far formations look sharp and clear:
before, there was a real feeling that clouds detail was up to the horizon (600km as stated since first tech videos)
Capture of an example of this from the official " Feature Discovery Series, weather" video:
I just havenât managed to achieve anything even close to that after su7. This is what we have now:
Please guys, vote for this!, I bet density/opacity has something to do with this.
This is incredible. I couldnât remember old clouds because at that time I didnât use MSFS that much because of other issues but ⊠how is that downgrade possible?
Yes agree the clouds look rubbish compared to pre SU7. Thereâs now only ONE cloud type - Cumulus - which they appear to try and layer to make it look thicker. Doesnât work.
This software has been out for TWO YEARS and they still havenât fixed such obvious bugs. That should tell you something folks.
For me too it is a bug that introduced a regression. Unfortunately they merged the Bug I opened a couple of days ago with an existing request in the wishlist forum requesting more clouds tips More cloud formations!.
Since there was more cloud types at launch and they stated ânative support of all clouds typesâ why do they now consider it as an enhancement and not a bug ?. I think weâll have to wait a long time, wishlist is large and this topic only has 147 votesâŠ
We are not requesting a new functionality but have the ânative support of all clouds typesâ works as expected and have the weather works as it was prior they break it.
we canât wait for too long , itâs a shame because weather and clouds are the most important features in the sim
Exactly.
As @CaptainMooreLBC said: TWO YEARSâŠand we donât have:
We have:
And yes, like you said: the weather, the clouds, the visibility are the most important parts of flying.
Two years and with every update:
Somebody said in another place: we need a âjust weather sim updateâ.
I agree that, we urgently need it.
THAT kind of sky is what I miss the most.
The regression is obvious 
, please Asobo, fix asap cloud types and layers in Live Weather, bring us back the pre-SU7 weather engine and start from there to improve what was still possible to improve.
Yes, a âweather updateâ would definitely be awesome. Actually, i remember before su7 came out, that devs said, literally, that the weather improvements in su7 would âblow us awayâ. Well, there is no doubt that they ended blowing up something, the own weather.
Letâs see if this opacity thing could make a different, as for sure, clouds are pretty much never transparent but quite dense, specially cumulous:
So please guys, spread the word and vote for this and other threads related.
they might have to improve the density, but until they fix the clouds that we already have, say for instance CBs are ugly still, they donât look realistic and often form in repeated patterns tooâŠthe rain effects âŠso many issues that I am not so positive for a quick fix unfortunatelyâŠunless they will grant us a weather update onlyâŠ
Half the time the clouds are so transparent they are almost invisibleâŠ
