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Hi Folks,

The following information is to explain about this update.

Due to some last minute fixes and installer issues I had to cut a few things out of the release today we had hoped to deliver. These were a water shader designer, new water textures and some new animation maps. Along with a set of airport textures which were a preview of what is to come and a new interface for news/and themes on the Main page.

However these will be coming very soon in a follow on update.

Ok so to what IS being delivered, essentially all the SHD clouds, along with a handfull of SHD themes. The massive diversity and capability of the new Cloud Theme Designer will allow you to easily create your own themes as the themes supplied are only representative and barely scratch the surface of whats there. Now we know creating themes isn't for everyone, but please give it a try. Smile

Next on to the install, the installation process is unattended on the most part however due to the amount of processing will take quite awhile to complete. It was either this or downloading potentially a 6GB update rather than a highly compressed 1GB update.

Once you have installed the SHD update, the first thing to do will be to check your Options page, and I recommend setting 4096x4096 for clouds and between 1024x1024 and 2048x2048 for cirrus and DXT5.

Then select one of the new themes or visit the designer tab to play around with the new features and install a cloud theme from there.

Go fly!

With this update we cover the spectrum from very soft, subtle white clouds to extremely hard edges with lots of drama. Now either end of the spectrum can produce some over the top results, the extreme situations are often best with lots of cloud around to show off the fantastic detail achievable at 4096, however on few clouds around will look out of place. The coming weather sim will tackle this issue in a revolutionary manner. The point is, play around with different looks for clouds and hopefully you will find a look that you find most pleasing to fly with.

Which brings me on to the next point, ok wheres the need to have all this diversity? Well playing with the cloud designer you hopefully can appreciate all the possibilities presented to the weather engine to control how textures are created dynamically.

Right now you will notice some things are not implemented such as the Airport Environment button and the Auto-generation of screenshots. Well you won't have long to wait. They will be enabled very soon. Smile

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. The link will be posted in this thread as soon as available in the near future.