GE PRO - Compared shots

Hello again;

Here are some examples to help show the different effects you can get in the same time and sitution using GE PRO. This first shot shows some of the sets I made earlier

This next shot here shows an example over Hawaii using the default scenery for FS9. This first shot below; shows a tropical sky in clear conditions. Note: the aircraft is bright as is the ground. The sky textures and ground textures here are both GE PRO in clear conditions and are both working with each other to cause this look. Ground is a little brighter and less blue and a touch more color and brightness. Note also we are using a softer horizon in these shots which you can adjust if you want to be a more defined harder look.

Next shot below, shows the same situation with some clouds. In this example we show the ground is a little more blue and a touch darker than the first shot. The shadows on the aircraft are also a little darker. Note also the sky in this example is a little more colourful which is due to the random element of how the GE PRO application makes and selects the sky. Again note we are using a softer horizon again.

Next shot below now shows an overcast condition. Note now the aircraft shadow and ground and clouds have all become darker and moody. In this example we are also showing a blue hue to the ground which is very typical in overcast conditions. Just for the record you may like to kow the water reflection set here was generated by Flight Environment to give a more grey look. We've also used FE for clouds.

In the next shot below we show how moody this overcast sitution can look with some care.

Now for some of the more clever advanced features of GE PRO. Let's say you want to try and get a really moody look and don't know how to. Don't worry. You simply go to the GE PRO weather control and use the weather finder to look for say a tunderstorm.

GE PRO will now automatically install matched ground and sky textures to help to give this look. When you go in game you go to the airport suggested.

In this example we use Weather-Maker FX by Reed Stough which is still currently in beta but produces some of the most amazing cloud scapes imaginable.

Peter,

Quit fooling around with all these screenshots and release this beauty!

In all seriousness, this appears to be another must-have and hopefully soon.  Thanks for the screenies.

Looks great Peter.  You've got another purchase out of me.   

To what extent will GE Pro work with Active Sky?  Can you describe what features will not work?  I also assume from your previous comments that you will have a weather package that will integrate directly with FE and GE Pro.  Is that correct?  Will your package provide additional integration not available with Active Sky?

neil0311 wrote: Looks great Peter.  You've got another purchase out of me.    To what extent will GE Pro work with Active Sky?  Can you describe what features will not work?  I also assume from your previous comments that you will have a weather package that will integrate directly with FE and GE Pro.  Is that correct?  Will your package provide additional integration not available with Active Sky?

Hi Neil, yes, we are working on an integration of a weather engine for our pakages and the total solution wil have a lot of new ideas and features. We are going to keep some of those ideas secret for now but they will be ground breaking and unique. Always, when we bring out something new it has to be very unique and stand out as something useful and desirable as a new produt.

The weather-engine side of things is being done by Reed Stough of www.Weather-Maker.com and already the next vesion will have integration with FE. It is our intention that by FSX we will have a combined package as a collabration of team work which we hope to take the level of expectation to new heights and offer some real eye candy and new features that will set our package as a real leader in the market.

As far as active sky is concerned it should still work right now very well with what we have. The only things we do is really the grouind textures and clouds and water which ASV don't do. So probably to get the best from ASV working with GE Pro it's best to turn of the graphic features in ASV. Ceratainly if you use ASV purely as a weather engine there won't be any issues at all running with FE or GE or GE Pro.

Thanks for the quetions,

I'm totally amazed that you can come up with something we've gotta have, thet we didn't even know we needed!  I was flying out of Honolulu just yesterday in a DC3, avoiding jets, and while it looked beautiful with GE, FE, UT, AS6, etc, something wasn't quite right, and now I know what it was.

Thank you!

akriesman wrote: Those are some brilliant and unique ideas Peter.   Kudos to you and your team.

Thanks Allen,

I've been enjoying UT both the USA and EUROPE and we've made sure we give the users an option adjust your UT specific textures to match our look for those users who have UT intalled so it matches and looks great with UT.

Fengz asked more or less the same question.

It's answered about three posts up on this thread.

There is a lot too this program.

Anthony and I use it with real weather and that's really what it's all about and it should work with any 3rd party add-on weather engine.

Just like AS6 gets real weather information so does GE PRO. It will set it for you and as long as you apply some common sense you should get some very good results.

You don't have to use the metar engine. You can simply opt to manaully install or creat some brighter sunny looking textures and skies or darker as you wish.

Lots of options and ways to use this program.

Anthony and I download the metar information and let the program have all the info we can. We tell it where we are flying from and to and any waypoints we feel appropiate.

We've been getting very good results when flying in real weather with AS6, wmp4 Weather maker FX and FS9 real weather.

alffs2004 wrote: So in the end I do have to enter everything manually to get the ground to change colors etc..... I was asking if it doesn it automatically as the clouds change in ASG? One reason I am not using FE anymore is because the clouds never really changed according to the weather... Alex

No you got it wrong. No disrespect by try and read the reply to Fengz again. There I state ; What we do is use the metar engine section of the program to put the destination and arrival airport and any in btween way points. We run some variables in and caluculate (in program code) what the conditions are looking like and make an esitmate as to what will be the most appropiate texture set

In there we say it's done either manully if you want or automatically.

We are going at some point upgrade FE ot FE PRO specs and have clouds change according to weather.

Peter Wilding wrote: alffs2004 wrote: So in the end I do have to enter everything manually to get the ground to change colors etc..... I was asking if it doesn it automatically as the clouds change in ASG? One reason I am not using FE anymore is because the clouds never really changed according to the weather... Alex No you got it wrong. No disrespect by try and read the reply to Fengz again. There I state ; What we do is use the metar engine section of the program to put the destination and arrival airport and any in btween way points. We run some variables in and caluculate (in program code) what the conditions are looking like and make an esitmate as to what will be the most appropiate texture set In there we say it's done either manully if you want or automatically. We are going at some point upgrade FE ot FE PRO specs and have clouds change according to weather.

I need a better explanation of how it works... Do I have to input the metars and create the different texture sets? Or the progream can communicate with AS6 and with its metar info the GE pro can make the textures change? Also where is FE pro. I love FE, but the once a cloud set is set it never changes... I would like them to be more dynamic according to the metar info...

Alex

Well you dont need to tell me I dont undestand. I understand perfectly all I want it was a clear answer. IN ORDER FOR THE TEXTURE TO CHANGE THE METARS HAVE TO BE ENTERED. Now it seems I wont be using this feature... I dont have time to do all that. Still looks great....

Now do I have to create the textures or simply with the metars GE PRO knows....

Alex

Swofford wrote: You enter the metars GE pro picks the textures EITHER automatically or you can do it manually.  He answers it quite clearly a few posts up.

I got that... Now GE PRO will upload the best match for the weather and it wont change. So do I stll need ALL the metars along the way?

Alex