Franz007

@MrBitstFlyer Fantastic job! Many thanks 🙏👍

That's weird...for me it's like night & day and I even have to admit that I couldn't fly without it 🙂

No no, it’s already an issue in the default XP12-version. I was just wondering if there was something we could do about that…

Great news and I really start to appreciate that plugin more and more. A think I still don't understand quite well, is why there are some layer of haze appearing out of nowhere. Is that a known bug in XP12 that cannot be fixed now?

Thanks for your help 👍 Will do that. And another thing I noticed: at each refresh (300 sec) the sim freezes for about 5-10 seconds, although having excluded the script-folder from the virus-checks…

I still see some very abrupt haze-changes, that are my main problem when doing VFR-flights...do any of you guys know why?

Here my actual settings. Is that good? 🙂

OK, so now I could enter my other API-key for OWM. I opened the window of the script and select the "LIVE"-register. What do I have to set there? I see a lot of options and sliders to change...I guess I have to check the box "Use CAMW aerosol data"? What about the ones for altitude fix? And what altitude to enter there? And do I have to check the box "override XP12 visibility"? And at the there are two sliders for turbidity: if I check the boxes, it will be set automatically, is that correct? Sorry to ask but I am a bit confused about all options. I wanted to test the automatic values coming from the API (Live).

Thank you for the explanations. I will try it tomorow when I’ll be back at my PC again 🙂

Yeah, I mentionned it to them already and as far as I recall, they said it would not be changed because it was very difficult to do. I also think they will look at the weather again in the future when they are dbe with their actual roadmap. I will for sure give some feedbacks again when it will become a task again.

That sounds good. Thanks for the review! I failed when I tried to use it. First, I must be too stupid to understand the signification of all options lol and second I could not create an API-key via openweathermap. When I cliked on "Get API-key" it relinks me to a page "The page you’re looking for doesn’t exist or has been moved". I am potentially very interested since I realized the haze is a huge issue, not necessarely the intensity but the very fast shifts we're facing: from excellent visibility to a thick layer of haze (back and forth), making us lose visual ground-contact in VFR-conditions...

I love these effects! The default SR22 is excellent and about to become my favourite GA-plane. And the avionics have been massively extended. A great plane. Kudos to Laminar 🙂

I haven’t noticed anything. At least the performance seems to be pretty much the same. But since I’m having 24GB of VRAM I may simply not notice it. So it’s difficult to tell.

🤣🤣🤣👏

Laminar’s new roadmap just got updated: https://www.x-plane.com/2026/03/x-plane-roadmap-update-april-2026/

I just grabed that one. And I must say: it’s absolutely fantastic! It improves all default airports quite massively in my opinion and I can only recommend it.

This approach may be valid for you, but it doesn’t define how everyone else evaluates a long‑term simulator. But if users truly ignored future development, studios wouldn’t publish roadmaps, communities wouldn’t discuss them, and media wouldn’t analyze them. Users constantly base their decisions on future development — whether it’s waiting for XP12, choosing MSFS2024, or even deciding which PC hardware to buy. That’s why studios publish roadmaps, why media reports on them, and why users discuss them.

I haven’t used « soon ». And calling it ‘false hope’ only makes sense if everyone buys a sim for what it looks like today. Many don’t. Long‑term users evaluate both the current state and the confirmed direction of development. You may have a different strategy when investing into a plateform but I doubt that you can speak for everyone.

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I think it can be relevant for someone who wants to invest in XP12 and finds the scenery outdated. Knowing that it’s being worked on a fully new scenery can absolutely help taking a decision to invest time getting familiar with XP and buying addons, knowing that in a not too far future the whole invest could be worth it.

Way more immersive!! 😂

Yes but I think they are simply waiting for the new scenery-generation to be released before adressing that part. Knowing a bit their view on things resp. their approach, I can imagine that offering an extended nightlight-mod would be some kind of hack-job affecting the future stability or opening a whole new can of possible bugs because of possible bad interactions etc. So I guess they prefer to offer it "well done" and stable rather than trying a quick fix that may break other things. And I would guess that will only be the case when the new scenery-system will be implemented. Just my personal guess 🙂

It’s nice to see that such discussions can be very civilised on this part of the forum without toxicity 😉

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