Parallel 42's SimFX released

Good find Chief! I haven't bought it yet, waiting on SU 15, as one of the Sim FX Apps requires SU 15. Love the water wakes on floats, way better than MSFS Default. Also want to wait until either Sim Market or Just Flight gets it. If I order from either I am instantly emailed when an update to a product comes out.

Cazzie
 
I added a link to their page in the OP. Do yourself a favor and scroll down to the part that discusses contrails. Find the card that says "Yours are fluffy!" Click the "See Sample" link, then come back here and thank me!

Meanwhile, I'll probably pick this one up this weekend when I have some time to fly again.
 
Very cool, contrails with eyes. They are indeed fluffy. Thanks Tom for sending us there for the fluffy contrails.
 
I'm tempted to buy it, mostly for the heatblur effect which is absolutely terrible by default.
Recently I wanted to make a quick flight with the default Jenny, and I had to abort due to the horrible heatblur effect ridiculously masking my 11 and 1 o'clock vision in flight...
The heatblur effect in the video looks much better, although I'm not sure it would really solve my issue in this case... But it would at least look a bit better on turbines and jets.
 
Daube said:
I'm tempted to buy it, mostly for the heatblur effect which is absolutely terrible by default.
Recently I wanted to make a quick flight with the default Jenny, and I had to abort due to the horrible heatblur effect ridiculously masking my 11 and 1 o'clock vision in flight...
The heatblur effect in the video looks much better, although I'm not sure it would really solve my issue in this case... But it would at least look a bit better on turbines and jets.
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Yeah, those heatblur effects on the Curtiss Jenny were a real issue for me too (terribly unrealistic). I removed the heatblur effects completely from the Curtiss Jenny by using these improved flight model files (https://flightsim.to/file/44579/microsoft-jn-4-jenny-realism-mod) and going into the Aircraft.cfg file and removing these two lines from the effects section:

effect.0 =VFX_ENG_Smoke_Right#(A:GENERAL ENG COMBUSTION:1, boolean)#FX_ASOBO_M_REACTORHEAT_TBM930
effect.1 =VFX_ENG_Smoke_Left#(A:GENERAL ENG COMBUSTION:1, boolean)#FX_ASOBO_M_REACTORHEAT_TBM930

Its been a much better experience flying the aircraft ever since.
 
Oh... I thought these effects were built in the 3D model and couldn't be edited ?
That's great news, thanks a lot John !
 
From today's email:

SimFX has been updated on 2024-05-27.

2024.22.1.12​

  • Added 5 weather presets, making it easier to match the conditions required for effects to show.
  • Fixed an issue where Simulated Contrails would stop rendering during flight.
  • Fixed an issue where sim performance would be degraded for some users using AI Contrails.
  • Fixed an issue where live weather data would not propagate properly through the system, leading to inaccurate contrail visuals.
  • Improved Heat blur calibration following changes in SU15.
  • Improved the way we compute waves for the Water Landing effect.
 
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