I bought this too, yesterday, but found the transition from metar to metar was completely unrealistic (even when having it on 1ms vs 100ms) and it just didn’t perform as I had hoped. Your shots looks stunning though.
That’s the experience I get in X-Plane with its awful weather transitions. Thanks for confirming your experience - I won’t be buying it now, not while it does that.
Apart from awful transitions – Does it appear to have up-to-date and semi realistic depictions of what’s actually happening? If this is the case, It does leave me hopeful for HiFi to jump onboard later on with ActiveSky.
I would happily purchase ActiveSky again having had a fair bit of experience with it on Prepar3d and all the third party support it provides (if/when the real Airliners hit this platform)
Yes it does bought it yesterday. Even the ATIS is on point. Only thing is in the 787 at cruising altitude of FL340 and FL360 the OAT displays -96C and -117C
That’s bloody cold! - Hopefully not too difficult to fix.
It’s got potential, but it’s not there yet. MS FS weather is much more realistic, in my opinion.
For example, I am 30k above NYC and the last metar showed cloudy, but it doesn’t update for another 10 mins (my setting – the earliest update is 5 min) so now everything shows as this… which doesn’t look realistic at 30k feet… even the horizon?
If I set the transition of the weather to 5 mins, it updates more often (obviously) but the transitions don’t look real – very much reminds me of Xplane 11 Active Sky, but worse.
Just for comparison, same spot, but I turned MSFS live weather on and it looks much better, to me. See below.
I also still have issues with it showing KJFK at 32 degrees F… which is not correct. 
Wow. Thank you for that detailed response!
The REX clouds look awful to me. I can see too much of a grid/repetition pattern which to me looks atrocious.
I think the biggest issue with the MSFS Internal weather now is ‘old data’ - I loaded up at JFK an hour ago just to see if there was any performance change after reading some threads. Solid 37FPS (30 if locked) — but the visibility was terrible. There was a thick fog hanging over. I googled ‘Weather New York’ and loaded the page which suggested unlimited visibility at that time.
I suspect the SDK/Weather Injection is still somewhat limited if HIFI’s statement is anything to go by — but it is promising and leads me to being optimistic. I don’t necessarily hate the MSFS Internal weather but unless PFPX can be made to read it, it’ll be useless for me sadly.
Also, here’s what the transitioning of the weather does… again, not saying someone shouldn’t buy it, just want people to know what they’re buying.
Hope this helps!
Wow. That’s really bad. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a weather transition that… rough.
Right? Clearly it’s a bug or maybe not… the software has also crashed on me a couple of times. Maybe it’ll get there… but it’s not perfect by any means yet.
I wonder if it’s a current limitation of the SDK/Injection API — May explain why HiFi are hesitant to release something at this stage.
It’s certainly possible.
Is it also possibly inexperience? HiFi has been doing exactly this kind of weather injection for a very long time on both P3D and X-Plane. Is this REX’s first foray into this?
Thanks for the short video. I asked about the transitions yesterday to another Rex user as this is what I feared. Although the depiction might be closer to localised real world this is a step back. I don’t remember the default engine refreshing in waves across the sky. Completely kills the immersion. Thanks for saving me the hassle.
Yeah the transitions are really off putting and totally kill it for me!
An update is coming probably tomorrow…