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@tomwhoca tomwhoca released this 26 Oct 15:44
v0.3.0
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Cloud types: softer stratiform decks, crisp cumulus. If you have 0.2.0 or 0.1.x, install over it: your tunables.ini is kept and gets the new settings, and the installer updates the EFB app in your Community folder.

New: cloud types

  • Not every cloud is a cumulus. Real stratocumulus, stratus, altocumulus and altostratus hold less water than cumulus, spread more evenly and have softer edges. Until now the mod made every cloud as solid as a cumulus, so thin decks looked like fields of cotton balls.
  • How the type is chosen: MSFS's weather has no cloud types, so the mod infers them from each layer's height, depth and cover, including the layers it takes from the METARs. Thin broken or overcast decks become stratiform; scattered low clouds and deep clouds stay cumulus; cirrus keeps its own look.
  • What changes: each stratiform type gets its own share of the "Solid clouds" thickness and the sim's soft edges. Stratus and stratocumulus decks stay grey and solid from below, as real ones are; altocumulus, and altostratus even more, also get a softer base, so a thin altostratus is a veil the sun can shine through. Cumulus keep the full thickness and get crisp edges.
  • Settings: in the EFB app's Clouds tab, "Cloud types" (0 % draws every cloud like cumulus, as before), and under "More" each type's thickness (60, 50, 40 and 30 % by default). In tunables.ini: C23–C27.
  • Live weather only: weather presets and third-party weather engines such as Active Sky keep drawing every cloud like cumulus.

Also

  • New comparison screenshots on the GitHub page, each with the METAR the sim used.
  • Known issue, as in 0.2.0: dust and smoke haze look grey rather than yellow-brown. The amount of haze follows the METAR; the colour will be fixed in a later version.

Installing

  1. Install ReShade 6.8 or newer, the build with full add-on support, for MSFS 2024, and start the sim once with it.
  2. Close the sim, download AtmosphereMod-0.3.0.zip below, unzip it anywhere (not into the Community folder) and double-click Install AtmosphereMod.cmd.
  3. Start the sim.

See the README for details, the settings and the known limitations.

Use at your own risk. AtmosphereMod has been developed and tested on a single PC. On other hardware or drivers it may not work, may show graphical errors, may crash the sim or may cost performance. Ctrl+Shift+F9 switches back to stock at once, and the uninstaller removes everything it installed.

SHA-256 of AtmosphereMod-0.3.0.zip: 9987503a800c946a0fc4739bc1eead95d72039ca5bc7d7ec8dae67bd9bccc8f8

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