We take off from SFO and head towards OAK. Let's say we fly from SFO-OAK-SJC for purposes of demonstration.Īs we taxi and take off from SFO, there are no clouds reported in the METAR information, so SkyMaxx will draw no clouds anywhere as far as the eye can see (and OAK/SJC are within eye range). San Jose, CA on the south side of the bay is reporting scattered clouds Oakland, CA across the bay is reporting overcastģ. San Francisco, CA is reporting clear skiesĢ. We are going to assume RWC is NOT installed in the following example.ġ. Let's use the following example to explain it: RWC acts as the glue to SMP that tells SMP where to place clouds in a scene based on real world METAR data. Since I have all three add-ons installed, and they seem to all work together, I am curious as to what RWC actually does, that ASXP doesn't and why the dependency between SMP and RWC?
If anyone would be kind enough to clarify, it would be appreciated. I guess what I am really trying to ask is whether or not I made a mistake in using ASXP if RWC does the same thing? I did notice in the settings that you can either choose FSGRW (FS Global Real Weather) as a "metar source" or another add-on (like ASXP), so maybe I've answered my own question. Logic would dictate that XP is already pulling metar data, and so is ASXP, so is this also something that RWC does? It is then that I wonder what RWC and doing and how they work together, or is it a case of redundancy? This was an aspect of weather generation I never really thought about until now, with the exception that in general, a metar is pulled for the airport I am at and then the metar is decoded and transposed into a visual environment, which then updates at regular intervals set within a particular program. After the cockpit shows up, I have to wait a little while for my scenery to fully load (pulling it from an external HDD), then the weather updates to whatever it is currently. At the startup screen, I make sure that the weather is set to real world weather, and then make sure the rest of the flight parameters are set, then I start the flight. My workflow in XP is to first start up ASXP, then start up X-Plane. In recent months, I also bought the new ActiveSkyXP add-on, since I've used it before in other simulators. Hello, I am a new member to the X-Pilot Forums, and I joined, due to owning both SkyMaxxPro and Real Weather Connector.