Watch your mailbox closely since today, May 27th, it will happen. This is a big upgrade to SkyMaxx Pro, and will be offered free of charge to existing SkyMaxx Pro 4 customers running X-Plane 10 or X-Plane 11.” This results in better blending and color continuity, which makes the clouds seem much more natural and realistic. The screenshots below show what you can expect.

Accurate moon phases and orientation of the moonīy replacing X-Plane’s skies with our own, it enables us to make the lighting on our clouds more consistent with the skies you see behind them.

Our own ephemeris model, for accurate placement of the sun, moon, stars, and planets at night.

New, much-improved cloud textures for “crisp” and “soft” cumulus clouds.

More variety of cloud shapes and positions.

More realistic and distinctive representation of “HD cloud puffs” stratiform clouds.

But we havent exposed it to users because we arent satisfied with its look or performance.

Stutters with high cloud draw area settings reduced SkyMaxx Pro has actually has the same 'volumetric' technique being used by our competitor (GPU ray-casting) under the hood, and its been there since version 1.

Improved blending of distant clouds into the sky.

Procedural sky box (based on the Hosek model) to accurately simulate sky colors for any time, place, and weather.

Of things to note, you can expect the following: This is a pretty nice update we’re excited to get out to you, and we’re hoping you enjoy it as much as we do! This seems to me a big step.Īccording to the incoming news “Beginning somewhere today, May 27th 2017, you’ll be able to enjoy SkyMaxx Pro v4.5. X-Plained.Com is pleased being a SkyMAXX Pro simmer, that SkyMAXX Pro has been updated to version 4.5.

Skymaxx pro 4.5 screenshot comparison