REX announce release of Service Pack 3 for REX Essential Plus and REX Essential Plus Overdrive

[mutley 4,487]

Service Pack 3 does not do the name justice for what is packed into this major update. The update can be downloaded from http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/forums. The following is a list of changes and major enhancements made to this package.
 

WEATHER DATA INTEGRITY

• New backend server based metar data integrity system that can be modified without the need of a new build for the user.
• Weather Theme files now have a data integrity system to make sure all data is returned for perfect creation of dynamic themes.
• Weather data is downloaded from NOAA and VATSIM 6 times an hour to insure the user receives the most accurate real-time weather.

NEW GLOBAL WIND AND TEMPERATURES SYSTEM

• Continued support of world-wide weather balloon system twice a day
• New integrated GFS (GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM) wind and temperature GRIB forecast data down to the 1 x 1 latitude and longitude globally between the surface and 53,000 feet. This data covers the whole globe from pole to pole.

NEW QUICK STARTUP AND WEATHER DOWNLOAD PROCESS

• Weather no longer is required to be downloaded at startup of application
• The latest weather is downloaded when the user or the weather submits a request for the weather from our REX EDGE servers. This insures the user has the most recent weather reports from NOAA and VATSIM.

NEWLY RE-WRITTEN WEATHER ENGINE FOR OPTIMIZATION AND INJECTION

• The entire weather engine has been written from scratch with no legacy code.  
• Utilizes new threading processes to better reduce the processing requirement.
• Weather engine utilizes a “DISTANT” weather injection process so that as the user travels, the weather injects at a distance from the aircraft. This combined with the “ALWAYS ON” weather pull process nearly eliminates dramatic weather transitions.  Cloud popping and wind shifts are reduced to a minimum.

 

FLIGHT PLANNING LINKAGE

• Support for the PMDG 777 winds and temperature aloft import feature
• Support for waypoints with PMDG 777 with Flight Aware integration planning tool.

WEATHER INTERPOLATION AND WEATHER REGION CHANGES

• New weather GRID system enables weather to be realized at over 65,000 custom points of weather across the world. This gives the best weather representation down to a 1x1 latitude and longitude area.
• Weather surface load regions for dynamic weather themes has been expanded from 4 x 4 latitude longitude area to up to a 15 x 15 region.

NEW UN-CLUTTERED MAPPING SYSTEM

• New mapping system is clutter free so that it provides ease of view of where you are flying, yet with enough information to give reliable location information.
• New mapping system utilizes new local mapping and not reliant upon other outside services.
• Accurate pinpoint location of storm cells, turbulence, and icing.

ENHANCED TEXTURE SUPPORT OF PREPAR3D 2+ USERS

• Updated wave animations and sun textures to handle changes to Prepar3D 2 + rendering requirements and DirectX11 support.
• Includes fix for “static” wave animations within Prepar3D 2+.

 

[Christopher Low 63]

I have been waiting for the REX updates to water textures and wave animations in P3D, so I will be interested to see the results. However, since I am still chugging along with a mid 2012 build of REX Essential Plus, I will wait for the full SP3 build to be uploaded to Flightsim Store, and then reinstall the entire package.

[Kevin Firth 114]

would be nice if they would release those lovely P3D2 water goodies to we R4TD users as well though... am rather wishing I hadnt bought R4TD now as it hasn't given me anything I didnt really have before, and the water fixes for P3D2 have been released earlier through a supposedly inferior product line :s Once bitten...Bad REX!

[Christopher Low 63]

Fear not, Kevin. A similar update to the water textures and wave animations will be included with Texture Update 2 for REX4, due to be released in the near future. Let's just hope that the REX guys satisfy all of us!

 

[adrians69 159]

Thanks for the heads up Joe, DL now!

[rstough 7]

would be nice if they would release those lovely P3D2 water goodies to we R4TD users as well though... am rather wishing I hadnt bought R4TD now as it hasn't given me anything I didnt really have before, and the water fixes for P3D2 have been released earlier through a supposedly inferior product line :s Once bitten...Bad REX!

 

Kevin - We will have the fixes available this week for REX4 TD.  BTW - we have some awesome things coming for REX 4 Texture Direct.  So your purchase will not be wasted - trust me! 

[brett 2,284]

Thanks REX, that was one hellofan update, I feel like I just bought a new program.    

[Kevin Firth 114]

Kevin - We will have the fixes available this week for REX4 TD. BTW - we have some awesome things coming for REX 4 Texture Direct. So your purchase will not be wasted - trust me!

Thanks for the reassurance Reed, I'll suspend judgement til I've tasted those water textures and seen how awesome the awesome things are K

[Paul K 22]

Blimey, I had completely missed this thread. The update sounds terrific, so I shall grab it tomorrow when I have a day off. And anything..ANYTHING...that does something with P3DV2's dreadful water textures is worth having. Thanks in advance to all at REX.

[Christopher Low 63]

Just a quick note to say that my FSS account has been updated with the new full SP3 build.