For once, not just clouds transition smoothly, but now everything from wind, temperature and visibility change seamlessly. Luckily, HiFi have worked tirelessly to provide the best experience possible within flight simulation. Building upon the excellent engine that HiFi have been perfecting over the years, you can see they’ve brought over the best bits of ASN and added a range of new features, which really enhance the weather engine within the sim.įor years, we’ve been spoilt with how great massive storms look in our sims, but something that was missing was the formation and the smooth transition. So I think the first question is: how much of a leap is AS16 compared to Active Sky Next? Well, from a user’s point of view, this is more of an evolution of ASN, compared to the revolution the 2014 product gave us. As HiFi makes clear, both products were designed to work with one another, and as a result, I’ll be reviewing them as a pair. Of course, it wasn’t just Active Sky 2016 that was announced but also Active Sky Cloud Art. As you can imagine, this went down like a storm. Fast forward to 2016, and just weeks before the launch, HiFi gave us a trailer, peeking into the future they had prepared for us. With Active Sky Next, they focused on the basics and developed a revolutionary new weather engine, enabling developers like PMDG to make a fully functional weather radar for the first time. When Hifi introduced Active Sky Evolution, they introduced textures, to try to give users the best available textures for that weather condition. HiFi Simulations have been developing weather engines for years now, and with each release, we see a new level of realism added, a new interface and of course, many new features aimed to be a new standard in our world. This may have been a lack of overcast coverage, maybe storms weren’t accurately depicted or maybe, the visibility options meant your Sim would look like something placed a piece of A4 paper over your eyes. Regardless of your choice, there’s always been something ‘missing’ from making it as realistic as possible. Of course, if Simmers don’t want to fork money out, then there are plenty of free options, as well as the chance to use “real world weather” from within the Sim itself. FS Global Weather, Opus, REX and of course Active Sky have all been seen to be the main players when it comes to weather engines, all offering something slightly different. Numerous developers have tried to impress us with the ‘advance’ weather engines, all trying to offer something different. For years and years, weather within the Flight Simulation world had always been one of the most unrealistic aspects of exploring the virtual world.
0 kommentar(er)
