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- Article number: AS14288
- Manufact./Publisher: REX Game Studios
- Language: English
- Current version: 2.6
Sky Force 3D is a complete overhaul of the weather and environment experience while bringing dimension to FSX, FSX: Steam and Prepar3D:
- New 3D Cloud Models and Structures Created for Real-World Cloud Classification
- Dynamic Synchronization
- New Cloud SDK (no more upside-down clouds or repeating cloud bottoms)
- Natural Photo-Based Environment Textures
- New Weather Engine
- Integrated Flight Center
- Interactive Mapping System
- Built-in PTA Integration
- Innovative Sky and Sun Atmospherics
- New Lightning Effects
- New HD Environment Sound Effects
- and Much More…
FEATURES
New 3D Cloud Models and Cloud Structures - The First In-Flight Sim:
- New 3D cloud model structures and SDK, patterned after real-world cloud classifications with their own specifications, positions and heights
- Each of the 3000+ 3D cloud model structures were developed in comparison to their real-world counterpart
- NEW clouds types, including; altocumulus, stratocumulus, humilis, mediocris, congestus, tower cumulus, cumulonimbus calvus, supercell and rainshaft, tornado, stratus, nimbostratus, altostratus and cirrus class
- Real-world cloud model system including (but not limited to) cloud streets, super cells, wall clouds, funnel, shelf, rain shaft and tornadoes
- Restructured cloud SDK for true formation realism
- Single-session cloud texture variation, allowing more variety during a flight session, increasing the overall realism
- The new cloud system models storm structures reaching 70,000 feet
- Included are wall and shelf clouds, and in some circumstances, these will include funnel clouds and tornadoes of various shapes and sizes
Real-Time Weather Engine:
- Intelligent weather engine that harnesses over 70,000 points of weather data globally
- Reads and interprets live model data to sample the atmosphere and therefore will sync the appropriate clouds structures
NEW Photo-Based Natural Environment Textures and Innovative Sky Atmospheric Effects:
- Fully compatible with DX9, DX10 and DX11
- Tailored to low AND high-end systems
- New natural, photo-based environment textures while exploiting the power of PTA integration
- New techniques create a smoother, realistic and natural sky color blending at dawn and dusk as well as newly improved visibility and fog
- With VBlend and Vaporous Skies, we have achieved more realistic horizontal and vertical day, dawn and dusk fog generation and sky visibility blending
- The sun atmospheric rendering effects are very cinematic and will be noticeable through the virtual cockpit
- Lightning Fast Texture Installation
- Full 10-Day Cycle Sky Texture Sets: When the Sky Force 3D 10-Day Cycle is installed, the simulator will dynamically load a different sky color transition from sunrise through sunset each day
PTA Presets Built-In:
- Is included in Sky Force 3D were specifically designed for use with the sky textures and atmospheric effects in Sky Force 3D
- Is required for use with our presets
Flight Center:
- No-nonsense tool that is geared for those who want to view their flight plans and experience true weather along a route
- Supports the standard XML based plan file from FSX and Prepar3D
- Export support for PFPX
Interactive Mapping System:
Integrated interactive mapping system provides 6 weather overlays to allow you to visually sample the weather prior to departure:
- Precipitation Overlay – You can view all the locations of precipitation, our precipitation does not look like speckled paint spats, but true radar echoes
- Winds Overlay – 9 levels of wind from 3,000 to 53,000 feet can be viewed in this overlay so that you can make smarter decisions for better fuel consumption
- Temps Overlay – 9 levels of temperatures from 3,000 to 53,000 feet help you avoid potential areas and levels of icing and rime
- Pireps Overlay – This overlay lets you read position and data from real-life pilots across the world
- Sigmets Overlay – This overlay provides not only US-based but global sigmet data in real-time
- Metar Overlay – Utilizing that fact that our servers download the local weather data 6 times an hour gives you the most accurate view of the local weather
- Flight Plan Overlay – If you import a flight plan into the Sky Force Flight Center, then a visual view of the flight plan is available
- Major Airport Overlay – This map overlay provides a vital point of reference to help you as you fly
- Major Road Overlay – To give more detail and help especially to the pilots who like to fly VFR, we provide a significant road overlay to follow
- Zoom Feature – Allows you to zoom into the local level and zoom out to the regional level
- Precip Opacity – Allows you to reduce the prominence of the precipitation echoes on the various map for simple reading
- Microsoft Flight Simulator X, FSX: Steam Edition or Lockheed Martin - Prepar3D V1-V5+
- Windows 7 or higher
- RAM Memory: 8 GB or higher
- Hard drive space: 30 GB
- Video card: DirectX 9 or higher
Internet Connection: Required for installation, registration and general operation!
If you have already purchased any REX add-on in the Aerosoft Shop, you will receive a 10% discount on the purchase of this add-on. Please only add the "REX 5 - Sky Force" to your shopping cart and the discount will be automatically deducted.*
But if you have purchased a REX add-on in the Aerosoft Shop before February 2017, please enter your serial key of your add-on in the voucher field at the checkout.
*NOTE: Therefore you need login into your same account you used purchasing the previous version of REX in the Aerosoft Shop.
Technical Update 2.6:
- FIXED – Weather rendering in Enhanced Atmospherics of Prepar3D v5+
- FIXED – Auto load of flight plan into Prepar3D v5+
- FIXED – Weather engine not injecting weather into P3D v5.2 +
- FIXED – Error occurring when installing individual textures after resolution options changed
- FIXED – PMDG wind export throwing error message during creation
- FIXED – Registry issue with use with Environment Force
- FIXED – Mapping not showing key weather elements
- FIXED – Error with splash screen load
- FIXED – General performance issues
- IMPROVED - Visibility handling in non-Enhanced Atmospherics weather rendering
- IMPROVED - Metar weather rendering of the weather engine
Technical Update 2.5:
- ADDED – Support for Prepar3D v5
- FIXED – Improved visibility and haze effect rendering for Prepar3D v5
- FIXED – PMDG wind file missing folder issue
- FIXED – Optimization risk negative numbers with higher-end graphics cards
- FIXED – Registration failures
- FIXED – Cloud brightness modification for Prepar3D v5
- FIXED – Overcast cloud models for Prepar3D 5 (Non-trueSky™)
- FIXED – Green bar rendering when disabled
- FIXED – Backup files will not overwrite with both 64bit and 32bit installed
- FIXED – Export file not updating
- FIXED – Export JSON file not being downloaded
- FIXED – Flight plan not being cleared within the application
- FIXED – Client connection database error
- IMPROVED – Rendering moderate rain handling when BR is recognized within the metar report
Technical Update 2.4:
- Fixed – Mapping upper level winds greater than 100kts depiction
- Fixed – Upper level winds greater than 100kts with weather injection
- Fixed – Green bar showing when disabled
- Fixed – Cloud shader brightness
- Fixed – Weather briefing connection
- Added – Function to prevent re-registration after software update
- Added – Function to save themes to server
- Added – Function to save user settings to server
- Added – Functions for preparation of Creative Update 1.0 content
- Added - Support for PMDG weather file
- Added – New weather data export json file for 3rd-party developer SDK
Technical Update 2.3 (Build: 5.0.2019.0514):
- Fixed – Cloud Model In-Sync issue
- Fixed - Odd cloud patterns
- Fixed – Error issue with a missing icon
- Fixed – Network remote computer connection issue
- Added – New weather rendering engine (Preview)
- Added – Cloud shader fix to improve cloud coloring
- Improved – Performance of mapping
- Improved – Performance of the weather engine
Update 2.2:
- Fixed – 3D Model Issues
- Fixed - Performance of weather engine
- Fixed - Performance of the mapping system
- Fixed - Performances issues
Update 2:
- Fixed – Freezing of application when user confirms removal of favorite airport
- Fixed – Scaling issue with Windows 10
- Fixed – Overlapping community theme notification
- Fixed – Notifications causing P3D 4.1 to reload
- Fixed – Issue of overwriting last entered favorite airport during registration
- Fixed – CTD issue when some users right-click the interactive map
- Fixed – Aircraft and precipitation positioning on the map
- Fixed – Failure when Pilot2Atc flight plan is imported into Sky Force
- Fixed – Naming conventions for Sun/Atmospherics sets 08 and 13
- Fixed – “Theme completed” popup when adding a new set
- Fixed – Issue where weather was not showing in the Weather Center due to foreign date/time
- Fixed – Searches within the Weather Center for stations/airports not in the database
- Fixed – Texture sets not showing due to missing folder sets
- Fixed – .net error messages within the In-Sync Cloud Engine
- Fixed – Toggle button “Enable Quick Start” not being aligned with other buttons
- Fixed – Issue where Sky Force was causing P3D to go directly into “Load” mode
- Fixed – Major jumps of altimeter
- Fixed – Accuracy of weather injections
- Fixed – Visibility causing complete reduction including the cockpit
- Fixed – .net errors with the weather engine
- Fixed – OAT/TAT/SAT erratic temperatures increasing with altitude
- Fixed – No weather showing
- Fixed – Visibility too low for FSX, FSXSE when at 10SM
- Fixed – Weather injection issue causing errors with GSX and ChasePlane
- Fixed – Weather engine continuing to inject weather after it was turned off
- Fixed – In-sim green status bar not showing during weather engine injection
- Fixed – Network mode for weather injection
- Fixed – Installer stating “Organization” instead of “Email” during user registration
- Fixed – Issue with Sky Force working with FSUIPC autosave
- Fixed – Long named favorite airports cutting off on Favorite Airport panel within the Dashboard
- Fixed – Sky Force resolution issue with Windows 10
- Fixed – In-Sim briefing not reporting flight plan data
- Fixed – In-Sim briefing not showing clouds reported
- Fixed – Issue with textures sets not being saved when creating themes
- Fixed – Issue of application hang while changing a theme within the PTA window
- Fixed – Double popup alert window when installing a preset theme from the PTA window
- Fixed – Default airport not being saved after restart
- Fixed – Preventing duplication favorite airports from being added
- Fixed – Weather not reporting CAVOK properly within the Weather Center
- Fixed – “Precip” button on the mapping still showing precipitation if turned off
- Fixed – Latest TAF report is included in the Weather Center data
- Fixed – Bank numbers did not change when selecting a category in My Saved Themes or Community Shared Themes
- Fixed – Toggle button within the Engine setting grayed out when not active
- Fixed – Search for weather stations with winds over 30kts+
- Fixed – Length of notification text on successful texture install being cut off
- Fixed – Step 2 grammatical error during registration
- Fixed – Disabling the In-Sync Cloud function was not disabling all functions
- Fixed – Disabling the weather engine was not disabling the Refresh Weather button
- Fixed – Weather engine was showing DISCONNECTED instead of ON. Changed global variable
- Fixed – Issue where clicking Currently In Sim was causing Sky Force to CTD
- Fixed – Altitude of roll clouds showing at higher altitudes
- Fixed – Issue with cirrus not showing
- Fixed – Weather engine continued to load when disabled
- Fixed – Load time of weather injections in-sim
- Fixed – Inaccurate HDR read-only settings per sim type causing textures to not install correctly
- Fixed – Close icons on system and community notification areas. Incorporated buttons instead of icons as some users would quit the application by mistake.
- Added – Function to minimize Sky Force to system tray
- Added – Option to overwrite default backup of flight sim files
- Added – Fade in/out of generic alert system
- Added – Function to save latest map settings when application is closed and restarted
- Added – 3 levels of density related 3D stratus overcast model sets for user control over performance impact
- Added – 7 levels of density related 3D cumulus overcast model sets for user control over performance impact
- Added – Feature within the Weather Center to add a custom airport into the database when not found
- Added – Feature to set default favorite weather station/airport to show in the Weather Center and Favorite Airports
- Added – View buttons to replace ID numbers within My Themes and Community Themes
- Added – Better handling of the user’s system profile to help optimize texture resolution
- Added – Encrypted serial key field to the Profile Settings window
- Added – Function within General Settings to give the user the ability to start up Sky Force in the system tray
- Added – Flight sim validation location validation
- Added – Full support for weather injection for Prepar3D v4.0 users
- Added – Tool tips rollovers to 3 buttons on top right of main window
- Added – Weather Refresh button to engine status window
- Added – Disabling feature when changing between Enable Performance Optimizer and Auto tune
- Added – Code that prevents duplicate airports from being added to the Favorite Airport list from the Weather Center and Dashboard windows
- Added – Confirmation of Favorite Airport being added when set from the Weather Center window
- Added – Download of the metar_report.xml file for ProAtc users
- Added – Code to prevent users from starting more than one version of Sky Force at a time
- Added – Examples of the required lat/lon degrees when adding an airport to the database
- Added – Note to Flight Center details that winds are provided via the GFS model on the 12 and 00Z times
- Added – Text to Favorite Airports stating to wait patiently as we download data from our servers
- Added – Text to Most Recent Community Themes stating to wait patiently as we download data from our servers
- Added – Added new button synchronization window to track aircraft location
- Added – Disable notifications button for session to community notifications screen
- Removed – Support for PFPX export flight plans
- Removed – Additional popup alert when deleting a favorite airport
- Streamlined – Weather engine
- Streamlined – Cloud model sync engine
- Recoded – In-Sim weather briefing
- Updated – Software User Manual