Water match for weather conditions?

[SSI01]

Is anyone aware of any program that will match wave conditions in FS9 to those of the real-time weather above the water? It's a little disconcerting to fly into a hurricane and see perfectly calm water beneath your aircraft. Is there anything out there, any enhancement, that will key water activity to downloaded weather conditions?

 

[pfflyers]

I hope someone with more knowledge will jump in, I'd like to find one also.

As far as I know the wave configuration is set by a file in your main texture folder called "OceanHeightField". This can be changed, but I don't think there is any way to make it dynamic.

I've never seen anything that looked like really big waves. There are water textures that will give a whitecap appearance, but again it would be a permanent look until you changed it back.


I tried some Bill Lyons whitecap textures once, but I didn't care for them.


I hope someone points you to something more helpful.

 

[Sunny9850]

I think the latest version of ActiveSky and GEPro both do have that capability. I use ActiveSky but because it is situated on a second PC it has some issues with that texture swap that I have not quite sorted yet. I think it is not a program fault as much as the way my home network is setup and how W7 deals with external access to files on it's drive.

Cheers
Stefan

 

[EMatheson]

REX FS9 does that too. Not real-time, I suppose, but good enough if you know what kind of weather you'll be flying in before you load the sim.

 

[SSI01]

Thanks, folks - will find the programs and check them out.