[AP] Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack

... sorry, dicke Finger: Beitrag 53, Zeile 2 und 3

Has anybody heard from AP regarding weather errors in quick drives?

I haven't - but he will no doubt have taken a well-deserved break over the holiday period.

He is very active on facebook. In fact he just made this statement: “All weather patterns can be used at night except for the ones with fog.“

I would liked to have been told of this before purchase.

Zitat von Kim_olesen1

I would liked to have been told of this before purchase.

It is fully described in the manual which can be downloaded before buying...

Don't think this is quite correct. There are some Overcast (fog), Rain (fog) and Snow (fog) weather types where the manual indeed states that these should not be used at night. But the separate fog weather types listed on p.14 of the manual can all be used at night, as far as I can see at least.

@marcus

Nowhere in the manual does it say that you can’t have fog at night in a quick drive.

Zitat von Kim_olesen1

Nowhere in the manual does it say that you can’t have fog at night in a quick drive.

That's one for the rules lawyers. You're right, it's not mentioned in the (very brief) quick drive section. However, it is repeatedly mentioned in the other sections, so it shouldn't be a surprise...

@marcus

I just read through the manual once more. Please show me the quote where it says that fog patterns does not work at night.

Ich hatte noch nie Probleme mit den AP-Wetter, habe es auf fast allen Strecken installiert und es funktioniert auch in QD einwandfrei.

It arguably is a bit strange. According to the manual, the "foggy" QD weather uses the "AP Fog Variable 1" weather pattern. And the AP Fog Variable 1 weather pattern is not one of these patterns where it is stated that it cannot be used at night. So if the fog indeed does not work at night in QD, the manual is indeed not clear on this front.

I did just hear back from AP regarding the 1700 issues discussed earlier - he stated that they do not recognise that issue and invited us to provide more details. I don't normally do QDs so perhaps @Kim_olesen1 you want to do so? Ideally you should use UK routes for this purpose as non-UK routes are not officially supported as far as the Time of Day files are concerned.

Hat jemand Erfahrungen, ob sich das Überschreiben des Kuju-Wetters mit den AP-Dateien negativ auf bestehende Szenarien auswirkt?

@jpvdveer

I will probably hear from AP soon too. I don’t have any UK routes (i am only playing TS for german and austrian routes, that is where my heart is). So it looks like this might not be fixed. I will then revert back to my TS backup and consider my money lost.

Zitat von Berlin Südkreuz

Hat jemand Erfahrungen, ob sich das Überschreiben des Kuju-Wetters mit den AP-Dateien negativ auf bestehende Szenarien auswirkt?

Bisher nicht, das einzige was mit bisher aufgefallen ist, ist dieser "Fehler" hier:

Ouch. Looks like RSSLO himmel.

Zitat von Kim_olesen1

I just read through the manual once more. Please show me the quote where it says that fog patterns does not work at night.

'Should not be used at night': Manual p. 16-17-18-19. Agree, the issue remains unclear...

@marcus
Those are rain patterns not fog patterns.
Quick Drive does not use any of those. It uses the Fog variant 1 pattern which should work without restrictions.

Manchmal muss man auch Abstriche machen. AP hat da sicherlich viel Zeit investiert, dem TS ein gutes Wetter zu verpassen. Bereits das Wetter der Wherry Lines war toll.

Bis auf das Track-Paket war ich mit AP immer zufrieden. Wenn gewisse Wetter-Kombinationen nicht mehr gehen sollten, ist das für mich kein Weltuntergang. Zumal ich damit noch nie Probleme hatte.

Vielleicht ist ja doch einfach nur etwas falsch eingetragen worden. Gerade bei den Quick Drive macht der TS gefühlt ja eh, was er will.

Update gestern veröffentlicht (erneut herunterladen):

"APEP Snow Heavy weather pattern now used at night in Quick Drive when ‘Cloudy Snow’ is selected after sunset"

That was one of the errors i reported to AP so that is good news. We are in communication about the “no fog after sunset” in QD error too.