In Need of a Good Weather Program

[BonanzaDude]

It's v2.4.0 from the looks of the zip file: FlyWithLua_v2.4.0_Lin_Mac_Win.zip

Installation was straightforward. Just copy the "FlyWithLua" directory to the X-Plane <root>\Resources\plugins directory.

I will look for the newer version.

John

[BonanzaDude]

I received word back from the x-plane.org forums that I needed to try to shut down and restart the Lua engine. That seemed to work just fine.

John

[Kyle.Sanders]

If you move to plugin-based weather, you're going to lose one of the most unique elements of X-Plane's native weather engine, which is the concept of having different weather in different places.

Plugins are not able to set different weather for different airports simultaneously AFAIK (please correct me if the SDK now allows this, but I certainly haven't seen it in the past). I've had flights where I've taken off in VFR conditions and have been able to see clouds IN THE DISTANCE and have made decisions based on those observations (just like flying r/w). Most sims don't allows this, they simply have one set of weather loaded up for the entire world at any given time.

Doesn't seem to be the case anymore. MaxXP and X-Aviation seems to have found a way:

http://forums.x-pilot.com/topic/8656-an ... xx-pro-v3/

[Keith Smith]

Interesting, I wonder if they're simply drawing their own clouds from scratch, then.

[stealthbob]

Same clouds...bigger box.