XPlane. Reviews Home Page - X- Plane Reviews. By. Stephen · Posted September 1. Plugin Update : x. Enviro Environment Engine v.
Enviro. We all love something that fundamentally changes everything about the way you fly and interact with your simulator, in the last year since the end of November 2. X- Plane simulator, in first the release of X- Plane. World. Traffic to version 3 (coming real soon now) and the release of the x. Enviro Environment Engine or weather engine. My very first impression of x.
Enviro was that it wasn't something that much very different, but a then I found it was simply extraordinary in the way it totally transformed your environment as you flew, it was and still is expensive. But I am a total convert in the way x. Enviro gives you a complete and different feel to your flying. The release review is here: Plugin Review - x.
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Enviro - X- Plane. Environment Engine. But x. Enviro wasn't without it's if minor faults. Some clouds were very noticeable in the (cloud) images went the wrong direction, a black line on the horizon is hard to ignore and the worse issue is that it crashed to desktop in if the x. Enviro server was off line or you couldn't connect to it, and in the process X- Plane.
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The developers had committed to totally reinventing the main engine from just a slideshow image effect, which did actually work very well except for one issue as noted above, to the more modern voxel 3d mapping or a voxel grid, that uses each pixel with a given colour value in a frame. The idea is to give an item and in this case a cloud to be rendered as a volume in 3d. Clever and a much more modern way of reproducing clouds and common now in game development but it took a long time to create and test for the X- Plane simulator. First up there is a new start up panel, with a blacked out space to highlight the version number. The slight build up of your weather is still there as x. Enviro slowly builds up your current local weather picture..
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Main dropdown menus is still the same with just one extra new feature in the added "Weather Briefing".. Weather Briefing" gives you the current 2. METAR conditions, you can refresh the data anytime to see the current conditions. The "Settings" layout is changed as well from the X- Plane.
X- Plane. 11 (below right) style which looks far more modern, but the layout is basically the same but there are a few important changes to note. In the first column "Weather Settings" there is a new slider setting to cover "Maximum Surface Wind Speed", which is good because the surface wind speeds were a bit nasty and mostly too strong in v. I set it at 5kts. Second column is "Cloud(s) Settings". The actual slider settings themselves have not changed. Shadow Range", "Clouds Brightness" and a slightly more (cloud) crossfade is required to a full 2. First the brightness.
I found there was far more wider set of values in the cloud brightness and so it needed to go up a few %. Second item is more important.
Cloud "Shadow Range' is much more touchy and in fact it has a far less range than before, so in heavy low cloud conditions with break though light or in say twilight and dusk conditions it gives you a heavier darker cover.. There is a great need to get the "Shadow Range' right, because the effect is very good (below) when it is in it's full effect mode, with excellent light, shadows and colours on the landscape, but overall I feel the "Shadow Range' adjustment is in need of a more wider range to be more accurate.
Third Column in "Atmosphere Settings" has he most changes on the settings panel. Atmosphere has been split into two sliders now with "Upper Atmosphere" and "Lower Atmosphere" and gone is the selections for Rain and Snow effects.
Lightning effect is also gone and all are now set automatically in the system. Remove Scenery Shadows under overcast" selection, and 2d rain drops and 3d landing light effects are now listed together.
X- Plane related "Post Processing" and "Light Scattering" is not changed on the settings menu, but the underlying engine has been completely revised. Enviro v. 1. 0. 7 has been totally reworked to intergrate more with the X- Plane weather engine far better than in v.
So I always had the "Post Processing" switched off, but now I have to have it on to get the same effect, same for light scattering, you will note a lot of the X- Plane. Enviro compensates for that in its own engine, but at far distances it is now more noticeable as X- Plane builds up the scenery.. Here you can see the differences with the new scattering changes..
Light Scattering" slider down in 0% (above left) where I mostly had it positioned before, now you need it in the opposite position (above right) at 1. Atmosphere Settings need to be readjusting to your liking and not left or set as in v.
Fourth column are the sound settings and nothing has changed in there at all. First Impressions x. Enviro v. 1. 0. 7. First off it is important to note that it is very hard to get a full overview in a short time of any environmental engine or plugin. Enviro and what it could really do. I have a huge backlog of memories and images that are simply outstanding in the way the plugin recreates your total environment, once used x. Enviro is very hard to not be part of your X- Plane world, yes I am a huge fan, but I was also won over only in a period of time and not completely at first sight.
Enviro is live. The environmental plugin shows you current METAR data as it is right now or your current time. If you are at your home airport or close by then X- Plane via x. Enviro can dispaly what the weather conditions are right now. It can be spookily accurate as I have found by just looking out of my window or watching the conditions locally as they happen. Not perfect but pretty close. Note in v. 1. 0. 7 the conditions can now recreate such weather events like the Hurricanes off Florida U. S. lately and obviously many users jumped at the chance to check it out.. I myself checked out a local cyclone in February earlier this year and it was quite realistic.
But currently and still in v. A "History" version is still in the feature list and not part of the current line up, which will not allow you to recreate certain weather conditions, it should be on the now todo list not a long way down a feature list.. MAC version? in fact it is at the bottom of the todo list which is just plain stupid, who came up with this business plan? X- Plane users but their significant income as well? That is just plain crazy business or just dumb stupid! One item that has had attention was the issue that if the x. Enviro server went into meltdown or you went offline from the server it caused an X- Plane simulator crash and usually in mid- flight.
This was a nasty bug and was caused by the "Wininet exception handling code" and it has been addressed so we will see if it doesn't ruin another flight.. One of the fears of moving to the voxel 3d mapping was the effect on framerate. Laminar's "small puffs" but their heavy framerate load rears its ugly fears, but the voxel 3d mapping is a very different concept and framerate thankfully is very good, in fact I think it is improved and I checked it out in very heavy cloud conditions and it ran without any major framerate drops, but that is not to say a weak computer or extreme weather conditions can change the deal, but overall I was very impressed by the running of x. Enviro in v. 1. 0. So let us look at some pretty pictures.. I took two flights with one around KRSW in South Florida and one flight from ENGM - Oslo to ENBR - Bergen in Norway, first KRSW.
Enviro does do towering cumulus clouds really well and they do feel that they have more volume and thickness.. I didn't like the shelf like cloud formation that looked too wafer thin (arrowed below), I have seen these low thin stratus clouds before, but not this wafer thin, thin. It looks very effective though from above angles (below right), but not close up or head on. Translucent effects are very good. One of the thing that really impresses in x. Enviro is the great translucent feel between you and the ground and it still gives off a great realism look and feel. The effects are very good with darker clouds and conditions, but in certain conditions it changes..
I didn't see that in v.