Biosphere Enhanced Skyscapes

Enhanced Skyscapes is a visual solution for X-Plane 11, replacing default sky and clouds with realistic procedural shader-based sky and fully volumetric clouds. It is compatible with off-the-shelf weather injection add-ons, including but not limited to Active Sky XP and FS Global Real Weather.

• Fully volumetric clouds
• Works with any weather injection addons like Active Sky

2022.08.25 update

• Aerial perspective is now applied to clouds even when the camera is inside the cloud layer
• Fixed performance degradation introduced with Release 2022.05.23

2022.05.23 update

• Improved sky colours with brighter sunset/sunrises and depiction of Earth's shadow
• Added new sky colour options for different ozone levels
• Added smooth weather transitions
• Clouds are now affected by ambient lighting at night
• Added an option to disable custom sky of Enhanced Skyscapes
• Added an option to limit the number of cloud layers to save performance
• Added an option to control cloud update interval
• Added a command to reload presets
• Added several commands for adjusting various parameters live
• Improved visibility depiction
• Implemented a workaround for an X-Plane 11 bug requiring to reload weather for clouds to show up when using the default weather engine
• Shadow circle no longer shows up in OpenGL mode
• Fixed OpenGL coordinate shifts causing clouds to abruptly move
• Fixed a bug which caused clouds to look flat when the camera is right below a cloud layer
• Fixed black circle artefacts around horizon
• Linux version

Minimum requirements

• Windows or Linux
• X-Plane11.50 or above
• X-Plane Effects setting HDR or above
• GTX1050ti or equivalent
• Please note that VR is NOT supported.

It is strongly recommended to try the 20-minute demo before purchasing the add-on.

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