Suggestion: Key commands for cloud density

Good idea! +1

Yes, 👍. 🙂

Very good idea, it would also mean we could use software like 'voice attack' to randomise weather, I already use the method for the visibility keystrokes

Quote from busflieger

Hey guys, hey Jan,

I have a suggestion, which should not be very complicated to implement: Would it be possible to have key commands for the density of clouds too, similar to the settings for visibility, which is already possible to change it with key commands. The idea is: so you can easily change the cloud density on the fly and simulate in a very basic way weather or cloud changes during the trip?

This maybe would be a little workaround, until maybe a whole (METAR based?) weather system could be implemented in Aerofly FS someday ...

What do you think?

Ansgar

They need to put rain and realistic weather of this game

Quote from busflieger

Thats off-topic, sorry. Because it's a more complex thing to implement a good weather system, which would be a big step for Aerofly FS (maybe this would be version 5 or 6 one day ...), my suggestion is a little and easy way, only to change cloud density during the flight without going back to settings - just by assigning this to a key-command. This thread shows, that I'm not alone with this idea, which should be not a very big challenge for the developers.

By the way, I'm not sure, if a whole weather system is wanted by the developers of Aerofly FS, which is definitely not a simulator with a concept like X-Plane or MSFS. But again, thats not the topic here ...

It still is somewhat on topic. The thread was to talk about weather in aerofly, and he did. Sure it does not fully go with the topic, but it is still related.

For now, it would be enough for me if the wind was either real or randomly generated (like XPlane) and the windsock worked accordingly. I liked that a lot in X...I don't want to open a new topic now.

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From what I know the weather system is initialized at the beginning (when you press start) but no control messages are sent to that module during the runtime which is good for performance. If we end up sending messages to all of the individual parts of the sim the performance would suffer.

I second that: back in Aerofly FS2 I was one of multiple DLL developers which failed in sending messages to change the clouds. Obviously it is not possible to change clouds as long as the simulation is running.

Well, at least we can quickly go out to the menu, change the clouds and come back to the flight.

I think the most useful environment parameter we can adjust on the fly is Time.