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The latest iteration of our popular weather add-on for the X-Plane flight simulator, SkyMaxx Pro, is now available at X-Aviation! It’s a free update for any existing SkyMaxx Pro 4......
We had a couple of customers encounter the same problem this week in SilverLining, so it seems worth writing up here! This issue affects customers using a left-handed coordinate system;......
SilverLining offers many alternatives for rendering dense clouds, ranging from particle-based dense CUMULUS_CONGESTUS cloud layers, to truly volumetric STRATOCUMULUS layers, to highly-efficient STRATOCUMULUS_PARTICLES layers, and finally the fastest option of......
It’s hard not to know that virtual reality is the latest craze in training and simulation. The appeal of VR is obvious – instead of building huge domes or surrounding......
We recently had an interesting support call from one of our customers – they were using SilverLining in a system with geometric distortion on a dome surface, and encountering visible......
We’re stoked to announce tight integration between our X-Plane add-ons, SkyMaxx Pro (built on our SilverLining engine) and Real Weather Connector, and FS Global Real Weather (FSGRW,) a popular weather......
As the end of the year approaches, it might be worth asking your boss if any budget is left over for technology purposes. Often, you’ll have some funds available that......
We’ve been investing a lot of energy lately into developing a thread-safe API for SilverLining, but we haven’t forgotten the importance of visual improvements as well! Your virtual skies not......
Heads-up, SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud, and Weather SDK users! Our latest update, version 5.30, has some minor but important API changes you’ll need to know about. As we’re refactoring SilverLining......