I would’ve thought the random weather preference to still be set on relaunching the sim, but a few times I’ve checked showed it reset to uniform for the whole world.

I tend to fly acf that rattle, jiggle and break so anything overdone stands out. Today I skirted the edges of a large cell and everything worked together nicely. Later I flew directly into a red zone (at imprudent speeds) and the outcome was equally seamless and expected (though catastrophic). I’d say we’re in a sweet spot.

I’ve fought such coding wars myself.
Keep up ! What you have already achieved is really impressive for the technically inclined minds.
X-plane is a technical wonder. Making it multiplatform is indeed insane !
I sympathize.

PS: not sure it’s related but I’ve had pain due to rounding errors in the shaders lately.

PS.. Hope you can consider to have a slider option for HDR coloring, the existing daylight HDR seems to be a bit to much, so an user option such as cloud slider would be excellent 🙂

Anyway, again best of luck with the alpha blending

“Just be calm and carry on”