ok i think its working ok now.whats the best way to check as im new to fsx and not sure what should looklike what:)

Shortly after being in 3D on the runway, REX should say in the comms bar on the top something like "REX is starting to load the weatherfiles" with some more status reports, if you chose to use real weather in the options. Shouldn`t last longer than a minute.

The ultimate check is, the clouds should look WAY better than the stock ones. Search for my screenshots in the Screenshot Gallery here. This is what REX clouds look like.

Off to bed now.

`night and have fun.

Karsten

thanks Kilo. and good morning i guess when u read this,when you install a theme like stormy weather and it puts files in fsx,how do you then get the theme to work,wheres the option in fsx? thanks

hm,

have REX you configured to download real weather data?

If so, with choosing the theme you only chose a specific set of textures REX uses. So, if at the place you are flying is nice sunny weather, you see none to few clouds. I`m no expert of the inner workings of the weather in FSX, but I guess, there are some "stages" from clear to heavy thunderstorms. REX downloads the weather conditions for the place you are flying at and loads the cloud textures, which match this "stage" of weather conditions.

So, even if you chose the theme "stormy weather", you won`t see storm clouds all the time with real weather enabled in REX. I haven`t tried, but I guess you have to set the weather fixed in FSX and disable the real weather in REX to have full control over weather in FSX.

cheers Kilo:)

So you got it working?

yes buT sTill geTTIng To grips wiTH THE menus etc:)

When I don't care for REX weather/clouds, I boot up FSX through the FSX icon. When I want REX weather/clouds or a new REX theme, I boot up FSX by clicking first on the REX icon. ONce inside REX, I pick what I want -runways, water, clouds, etc., individually, that is create my own theme, or select a pre-packaged theme, which takes longer- and then select "Fly" from within REX. REX then starts FSX for me. Then I pick my airport to depart from and launch. REX loads everything I selected as I'm sitting on the runway. Just as Kilo described.

And because I also have ORBX for Australia, I can boot up FSX from the desktop by clicking on the FSX icon, then go into "weather" and select from several choices of ORBX weather. In other words, neither FSX nor REX weather, but ORBX weather.

Like Kilo, I've never used REX to do flight planning. Not yet.

ok when i do that a rexwasys box coms up do i then click load wx or choose say gatwick(the 1 i chose in rex before clicking fly now) and then clcik load wx or do i not click load wx at all because ive already set gatwick in rex?

ah ok i tried it without loading wx and i set the winter wonderland in FSX and on the tarmac i had snow then i saw it said loading rex weather and it changed it like ou said,thought there were patchs of snow till i flew a bit further,so whats the load wx box for that appears when i boot up FSX,it appears that when i came out the game the box had changed and it had automatically loaded the gatwick weather,is that correct,is the load wx box for if i dont pre select an airport in REX?
thankyou all for your time helping this newb:)