so whatever is done - I think it will take a long time until this works to some level - possibly for cost reasons, performance reasons, who knows. For online flying, anyway visibility, wind direction, pressure, temperature would have been enough (for the moment) - what they are trying to do is not clear to me, especially when the result is visible like this.
I would like to agree with some of the previous speakers - they are all a bit right - unfortunately this is the case with MSFS (but I don’t want to denigrate the work of the team, I “love” MSFS and appreciate the work of the developers very much) - but what I have noticed since Alpha - when people complain about something or there are problems with certain features, they are simply “switched off” instead of improving the “approach”. it’s the same with the weather at the moment!
What I want to say - visibility layer (not fog) - has worked with the “aerosol” feature too - an example with REX and aerosol turned on, natural “haze” look and by the way the clouds look better too (although I never would have preferred REX WF to the “live weather engine” before SU5):
REX WF
REX WF
REX WF
REX WF
sorry for the emergency landing (bingo fuel)
REX WF
look at the waves, it used to be like that even with the default live engine?, can´t remember:
REX WF
REX WF
but the “disadvantage” (or the problem at the moment, screenshot below) of the aerosol feature is the blending also against the sun and partly a performance problem when reloading/changing values and with that I mean - just “turn off” instead of improving a good feature in itself.:
And since the topic is “overcast” - the engine is still “capable” of doing what we want even if you look at the screenshots above.
A big snow storm (in Eastern Europe, unfortunately I can’t remember the ICAO, I just searched a strom in the weather section of REX and just wanted to compare) - with REX:
Rich clouds, soup of snow and clouds from about 700 - almost 30000 feet:
At this point, with the “default live weather engine”, this visibility layer was “present” again (which, by the way, suddenly disappeared again at approx. 3000 feet) a rather “thin” cloud layer with the famous cauliflower clouds - also not 100 % overcast and the layer was approx. 700 feet “thick” and not continuous - thus completely “wrong” !
(no screenshots because of “frustration”)
Not that I want to promote REX WF, it was just a comparison - REX WF has the disadvantages of a purely “METAR” based weather engine - the weather is set exactly the same until the next METAR - then change (often with performance problems, even if aerosol values are switched on, but that’s not REX WF’s fault) - and no upcoming weather fronts because the next current METAR is only loaded when you are close etc. etc.