It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here. Sign up for a new account in our community. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. I have all the different weather engines and cloud textures, and for me I fly airlinersnone of them beat.
If you don't want to run any of the REX addons for clouds, etc, you might want to look at the many free cloud texture downloads from the AVSIM library.
I would like to use some Cloud program though to sort of spice my clouds up a little. I always set my own weather, and I kind of think just using the P3d weather settings works pretty well for me. I kind of like not adding all these huge programs. For some reason the scenery files look a lot better, and so far I have held off installing any add on textures.
You can download immediately upon purchase and again at any time by going to the “My Account” section of the store.I just upgraded from 4. We do not offer anything on CD or other media and nothing will be mailed to you. Like all products in the FlightSim.Com Store, this one is available only as a download. When not using EA mode at all (Enhanced Atmospherics unchecked), all categories from ASCA are depicted.
When using EA mode with Volumetric Clouds on (slider at any setting other than full left), cloud structures and cloud textures are also replaced by EA mode’s trueSKY depiction. When using EA mode, only cloud structures and cloud textures will be (optionally) available for depiction from ASCA, and all other graphics categories are replaced by P3D’s internal EA depiction. Notice: ASCA content is partially compatible with Prepar3D v5’s EA mode (Enhanced Atmospherics). With the HD resolution pack, 4096×4096 resolution becomes available. Without the HD resolution pack, your cirrus/cloud resolution settings are limited to 2048×2048. Upon purchase and download, you’ll be offered a base download and an optional HD resolution pack download. Careful 3D modeling of cloud structures and textures enables this, while creating realistic and unique variants of the real-world cloud types including stratus, nimbostratus, altocumulus, altostratus, cumulus humilis, cumulus mediocris, cumulus congestus, towering cumulus, stratocumulus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, cumulonimbus incus, cumulonimbus calvus and more.ĪSCA works with FSX, FSX:SE and P3D v3, v4 and v5 with a single license. From solid overcast, to towering cumulonimbus, everything was designed for the best visuals with minimal performance sacrifice. But in addition to the graphical textures, ASCA also includes something very different: Brand New 3D Cloud Structures, which replace and/or enhance nearly every aspect of the cloud scene within the simulator! Thunderstorms are bigger, overcast is more full, light “few” humilis-type clouds are more visually appealing, and all cloud scenes are specifically tuned to match the ASCA texture content and provide maximum realism.Ī primary design focus for ASCA was performance.
In addition, in ASCA’s Full Dynamics theme, simultaneous variation of up to 8 different texture sets (128 cloud textures total) are provided including simultaneous texture resolution to provide increased performance for certain cloud types that don’t require high resolution (such as overcast layers).ĪSCA’s graphical content includes replacements/enhancements for everything above the horizon: Cirrus clouds, Cumulus clouds, Stratus clouds, Thunderstorm clouds, Sky colors and Lighting.
The technology behind ASCA includes optional tight integration with Active Sky 2016 to enable features such as Real-Time Texture Dynamics, which allow you to manually change or have your textures automatically changed multiple times throughout a flight without needed to shut-down and restart your simulator! The variation experienced throughout a flight with AS16 + ASCA is unprecedented, especially when flying through areas of varying weather conditions and severity.
Active Sky Cloud Art (ASCA) is a new kind of graphics add-on for Flight Simulator X (Boxed or SE) and Prepar3D that incorporates brand new technologies and content types to transform your skies and significantly increase realism, variation and dynamics.