Basically what I done was, before I ran the ASN installer, I went to my P3D location and created a new folder beside my P3D folder and called it ASN, then directed the installer to the folder.
Active Sky 2012 is the latest iteration in a long line of weather add-ons by Hifi Technologies.I have always done it this way and it works fine, but when I was installing the new build of ASN, I decided to install in a separate folder beside my P3D folder. Except This time, they did more than just tackle the weather. In this review, we’ll dive into Active Sky 2012 and see what it’s made off. In the first place, Active Sky 2012 is still a weather tool for FSX. So, you can expect more realistic weather simulation compared to the stock FSX weather engine.
Active Sky now also delivers a bunch of replacement textures for FSX, going from clouds, over water to runways. In this, it’s now eating from the same cake as Real Environment Extreme (and then some). So, this review will have to look at more than just weather.īecause of the included textures, Active Sky 2012 is quite a large download. If you download from SimMarket, like I did, you need to download 6 files in total. This total file size of these downloads is just shy of 3 GB. The fact that it’s split up into several files of course makes downloading easier under less than perfect internet connection, but it’s still a lot. Make sure all files (the 5 data files and the installer) are placed in the same folder, and run the installer. Of course you have to go through the usual steps like accepting a EULA, and clicking ‘OK’ half a dozen times. You’ll only need your serial (which you got upon purchase) the first time you run AS2012. At this time, it will check for a correct serial, and will also activate the product for online use. You can safely install the product on more than one system, but you can only run one at a time online. To keep this review organized, and help myself in writing it, I’m splitting it up a couple of times. Firstly, I’ll be talking about the program (running in Windows) first. How it performs in flightsim will come later in the review. Both of these section are also broken up into relevant parts. The first section is of course what people mainly buy Active Sky 2012 for: the weather engine.
There are a lot of possibilities with the Active Sky 2012 weather. By default, AS2012 will load real-life, real-time weather. You can choose whether it loads weather based on the PC’s system time (real-time) or FSX simulation time. You can also use ‘historic’ weather, although the word historic might give the wrong impression. What it means, is that you can set ‘past’ weather, but not earlier than 2007.
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