Possible Visual Bug in Clouds?

User Support Hub Weather & Live Weather
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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: Weird visuals when flying into clouds.

Weather: Live

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? I’ve noticed it several times when flying into heavy clouds, both live and presets.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Set weather to live or some heavy cloud cover

  2. Fly into clouds

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using:

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? no

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? 2070 super (8gb of vram)

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? Ryzen 7 5700X3D, 32gb ram.

MEDIA

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The video best displays the visuals.

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You may have just enabled wing fade, which many users have wanted for years!

Are you in the SU6 beta? I’m assuming no because of where you posted this, but it doens’t hurt to ask.

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I don’t think I do

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My issue is the very visually jarring flickering when entering and leaving the clouds. Like obviously its realistic to not see any of your aircraft inside of a cloud, but the flickering is way too harsh. The flickering is demonstrated in the video pretty well.

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Last time I took external footage of my plane in clouds, there was no fading effect, not until the camera was really far away from it. That looks more like a rendering bug than some new found cloud density feature as an intended change.

Is it repeatable?
Does it occur with non-live weather? Sorry, I see you said that it does with heavy cloud cover, so at least that is testable by other users.
Does it occur with other planes?

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I tried after removing all of my addons in both the community2024 and community folders and it seemed like the clouds worked like normal. I’m just not sure which mod/s would be causing it.

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Moved to User Support Hub since 3rd party addons could be part of the root cause.

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Here’s what it looks like when pausing

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Topic closed as per request of OP.