Lenux Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 As they initially were planned for this year, I don't think we will have to wait more than a year. My bet is Q1 2020 I agree with you I9 12900k@ 5 GHz | 32 GB DDR4 | Asus ROG Strix Z690-A Gaming Wifi d4| RTX 3090 | 6 TB SSD + 8 TB HDD | 4K Samsung Q90R 55" | VKB MK III PRO L | Virpil Throttle MONGOOST-50 | MFG Crosswind | TrackIR5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fri13 Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 2020 unless something raises as block. Q1-Q2 is my guess, so in 6 months timeline. I am really hoping to see those, as I do want to fly between clouds, get possibilities to hide visually from enemy, get a radar problems when flying through rain clouds, thunderstorm to limit radars capabilities by causing echoes and hiding targets, radios getting limitations, all limitations to FLIR and IR anyways. i7-8700k, 32GB 2666Mhz DDR4, 2x 2080S SLI 8GB, Oculus Rift S. i7-8700k, 16GB 2666Mhz DDR4, 1080Ti 11GB, 27" 4K, 65" HDR 4K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
River Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 most important update to me, aviation means proper weather modeling in the first place. fingers crossed they do it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airhunter Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 I wonder if this'll be like the Scud they show it to people but months and months later still not released or even really info on it either. Hope not but this is a pattern with ED. Same as the new "reworked" ground vehicles and SAM's. Nothing yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver_Dragon Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 Scud launcher require INS guiadance and SRBM balistic profile to release. Other "ground" AI units has in progress and no release date yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mizzy Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share Posted December 28, 2019 I know it wasn't a promise or a commitment for the new WIP clouds but are there any WIP screenshots. This will be the biggest update for me in DCS so sorry I am requesting again. Mizzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimp Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 I know it wasn't a promise or a commitment for the new WIP clouds but are there any WIP screenshots. This will be the biggest update for me in DCS so sorry I am requesting again. Mizzy Back in October, Silver Dragon had one posted on his thread from ED's Facebook page but it's no longer there. I wonder why he/ED took it down. i9 9900k @5.1GHz NZXT Kraken |Asus ROG Strix Z390 E-Gaming | Samsung NVMe m.2 970 Evo 1TB | LPX 64GB DDR4 3200MHz EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra | Reverb G1 | HOTAS Warthog | Saitek Flight Pedals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dav IRL Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 I’m surprised the cloud/weather feature is still not there yet. The immersion and realism proper weather adds is so important. It would be great when ED release the update that we can preview weather templates in some way, also, that there is lots of weather templates. Currently you can’t save your weather settings, even though there is a save button there, so even when you find a great setting you need to take a screenshot on your phone and dial it all in again! This is inconvenient. It would be nice to have a ton of preset weather templates with previews but I guess the night lighting has to be correct before they commit to weather settlings. At the end of the day the weather is as important as the cockpit detail and it’s taking a long time to see any progress. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 4.8 I7, 1080, TMW&T, SSD, VKB MK.IV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironhand Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 I’m surprised the cloud/weather feature is still not there yet. The immersion and realism proper weather adds is so important. It would be great when ED release the update that we can preview weather templates in some way, also, that there is lots of weather templates. Currently you can’t save your weather settings, even though there is a save button there, so even when you find a great setting you need to take a screenshot on your phone and dial it all in again! This is inconvenient. It would be nice to have a ton of preset weather templates with previews but I guess the night lighting has to be correct before they commit to weather settlings. At the end of the day the weather is as important as the cockpit detail and it’s taking a long time to see any progress. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk You can save it... Just type a name in the box and click the save icon (floppy disk). YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU1...CR6IZ7crfdZxDg _____ Win 10 Pro x64, ASUS Z97 Pro MoBo, Intel i7-4790K, EVGA GTX 970 4GB, HyperX Savage 32GB, Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB SSD, 2x Seagate Hybrid Drive 2TB Raid 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dav IRL Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 You can save it... Just type a name in the box and click the save icon (floppy disk). Type name in what box? Seriously I cannot believe I’ve missed this lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 4.8 I7, 1080, TMW&T, SSD, VKB MK.IV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironhand Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 Type name in what box? Seriously I cannot believe I’ve missed this lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Where it reads: DEFAULT. It’s an odd way of doing it because you expect a new dialogue box when, actually, the entire weather page is a dialogue box already. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU1...CR6IZ7crfdZxDg _____ Win 10 Pro x64, ASUS Z97 Pro MoBo, Intel i7-4790K, EVGA GTX 970 4GB, HyperX Savage 32GB, Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB SSD, 2x Seagate Hybrid Drive 2TB Raid 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dav IRL Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 Nice one will give it a go Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 4.8 I7, 1080, TMW&T, SSD, VKB MK.IV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilbur81 Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 The clouds with Dynamic weather look pretty good, imo Of course, there is room for improvement. Different type of clouds, more layers, etc Agreed. i7 8700K @ Stock - Win10 64 - 32 RAM - RTX 3080 12gb OC - 55 inch 4k Display Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dav IRL Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Where it reads: DEFAULT. It’s an odd way of doing it because you expect a new dialogue box when, actually, the entire weather page is a dialogue box already. Tried this, you can rename it and click save but the saved template doesn’t appear when you go to load it? Any advice? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 4.8 I7, 1080, TMW&T, SSD, VKB MK.IV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironhand Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 (edited) Tried this, you can rename it and click save but the saved template doesn’t appear when you go to load it? Any advice? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Hmmm...it does for me. I saved this this morning--Happy New Year! BTW. It's the current winds in Butami. Added a snowstorm for fun. Place it in your Saved Games\MissionEditor\weather folder and try to open it in the ME weather tab. EDIT: ALERT! Just noticed that the weather LUAs that come with the sim no longer contain the current date/time in the LUA. However, the ME saves it in your saved weather LUA. This means that you won't get the default date/time back until you exit and re-enter the ME. Don't know if this is a bug or part of the new weather work-in-progress.1-1-2020 Current Winds-Butami.lua Edited January 1, 2020 by Ironhand YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU1...CR6IZ7crfdZxDg _____ Win 10 Pro x64, ASUS Z97 Pro MoBo, Intel i7-4790K, EVGA GTX 970 4GB, HyperX Savage 32GB, Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB SSD, 2x Seagate Hybrid Drive 2TB Raid 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mizzy Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 Nice to see this subject addressed in the newsletter. Knowing ED with limited resources (compared to other games studios) it will be worth waiting for. P.S. This is my 15th year on this forum, where has the time gone !!! Mizzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worrazen Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 (edited) But it's not just "clouds", it's a whole weather system, with other parts later on, so it's a bigger technical deal. "new clouds" is a heavy understatement, not that simple at all, so I would relax and give it more thought in a few months. Edited January 27, 2020 by Worrazen Modules: A-10C I/II, F/A-18C, Mig-21Bis, M-2000C, AJS-37, Spitfire LF Mk. IX, P-47, FC3, SC, CA, WW2AP, CE2. Terrains: NTTR, Normandy, Persian Gulf, Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuiGon Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 But it's not just "clouds", it's a whole weather system, with other parts later on, so it's a bigger technical deal. "new clouds" is a heavy understatement, not that simple at all, so I would relax and give it more thought in a few months. It is indeed some bigger stuff, but they haven't just started working on it yesterday. The new clouds and weather have been in development for years already and have been mentionaed a couple of times over the past few years ;) Intel i7-12700K @ 8x5GHz+4x3.8GHz + 32 GB DDR5 RAM + Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 (8 GB VRAM) + M.2 SSD + Windows 10 64Bit DCS Panavia Tornado (IDS) really needs to be a thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted January 28, 2020 ED Team Share Posted January 28, 2020 (edited) Hi all, This is an important task for us with a high priority, as soon as we have more news we will share it with all of you in our news letters. thank you Edited January 28, 2020 by BIGNEWY Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, HP Reverb G2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikey Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Clouds and Multiplayer are more complex than most understand. Clouds and to a lesser extent weather absolutely change mission planning and especially weapon delivery. And this is where the problems start getting complex. DCS human and AI detection. IR, visual, Command guidance. Anyone here remember when you could lock a TV guided Maverick and climb through clouds and fire it through with perfect accuracy? Does anyone really think how IR and Command guidance SAM's behave through the 9/10 and 10/10 cloud base? The observable take away is that DCS uses two sets of clouds. Full cloud layer and invisible fluffy ones for candy. There isn't a technical in between when it comes to weapons. Start making clouds as objects and AI having obstructed view all synchronised in multiplayer and it loads up an existing Core sim with difficult to simplify line of sight checks. The challenge is huge. We have a large single player audience who rely on AI to fill the gaps. We have a small Multiplayer audience who desperately need to look through the same gaps in cloud cover. Those coversations are fun... "your two o clock low" ... "2, No Joy, I'm in cloud..." .. "Um, clear here" ... "3, raining where I am" I think I could permanenly give up on AI if we had human synchronisation and good cloud, but it's close, the extra CPU for all those IR and CG SAM's, the problems with Laser spot tracking, the additional object filter checks... Sometimes I do not know if this is all a pipe dream on this generation of computing... ___________________________________________________________________________ SIMPLE SCENERY SAVING * SIMPLE GROUP SAVING * SIMPLE STATIC SAVING * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mizzy Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 Yes it's been in development for some time as we know, plus it will definitely bring in the 'arcade' FPS lot in from Ace Combat 37. However, I would have thought ED may bring in the new weather system (including clouds) in single player mode first as most people play single player. Then after that bring the new feature in for the multiplayer bunch after all the issues are resolved or at least most of them. Mizzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunSlingerAUS Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Dear God, I hate to think of the issues a better weather system will bring to aircraft AI. Even if we do get a cloud upgrade sometime in 2020, I think it's going to take many years before the AI operates properly in differing weather conditions. I predict some epic threads complaining about this if and when the weather systems are improved. Intel 11900K/NVIDIA RTX 3090/32GB DDR4 3666/Z590 Asus Maximus motherboard/2TB Samsung EVO Pro/55" LG C9 120Hz @ 4K/Windows 10/Jotunheim Schiit external headphone amp/Virpil HOTAS + MFG Crosswind pedals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1Combat Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 it will definitely bring in the 'arcade' FPS lot in from Ace Combat 37. Clouds will? Nvidia RTX3080 (HP Reverb), AMD 3800x Asus Prime X570P, 64GB G-Skill RipJaw 3600 Saitek X-65F and Fanatec Club-Sport Pedals (Using VJoy and Gremlin to remap Throttle and Clutch into a Rudder axis) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mizzy Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 Clouds will? Er, yes. Why do you ask? Do you know something I don't ? Mizzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizzicato Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 (edited) Er, yes. Why do you ask? Do you know something I don't ? Mizzy It's more a question of "Do you know something that we don't know?" I can't imagine why fancy clouds would be the key to converting "the 'arcade' FPS lot from Ace Combat 37" over to DCS. :huh: Edited January 31, 2020 by Pizzicato i7-7700K @ 4.9Ghz | 16Gb DDR4 @ 3200Mhz | MSI Z270 Gaming M7 | MSI GeForce GTX 1080ti Gaming X | Win 10 Home | Thrustmaster Warthog | MFG Crosswind pedals | Oculus Rift S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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