Hey guys,Apologies if this has been posted similarly some where else, I have checked quickly but couldn't find anything.I was flying the other day and decided to take a snap of my new (first ever) repaint. I normally do not like to fly with too many clouds but I wanted to for dome variation in screenshots.I have seen this weird blue cloud thing before but have not been bothered until now:You will see in the highlighted area is where they look most blue, but the others also look blue, especially noticeable when flying above and overcast layer (less noticeable beneath clouds, strangely). :( The only ad-dons I have now are Real Environment Professional and Airport Environment Upgrade, does REP supply cloud textures? I think it doesn't, and after putting the default FS9 clouds from the CD back into the folder on the hard-drive, just to be sure, my conclusion is that it is the suneffect file, which supplies a blue-ish halo around the sun... is this sensible? Is it something completely different? What does anyone else think, because those clouds sure as hell aren't the default ones (which are only better because of the colouring). :( Hope there is some ideas on this one.Cheers.

... any ideas on this one?Any sort of help would be much appreciated...

... any ideas on this one?Any sort of help would be much appreciated...

I once had a cloud color problem when using FE. In that case the cloud looked to red. Not a problem now and I use FS elemental natural pack. I think FS sometimes have a problem getting the colors completely right. Is the white circle your highlight? Outside that I think my clouds were more too red than yours are too blue here.

... Is the white circle your highlight? Outside that I think my clouds were more too red than yours are too blue here.

Cheers for the reply jfri.Yep, the white circle is the highlight, the rest of the picture is a bit darker than normal, the highlight is normal brightness, and the clouds in it are especially blue, I think they should be a dark grey colour, and on the other clouds, where their underside and edging is blue, they should be grey similarly... apparently not! :( I'll have a look into the suneffect file, that's the only thing I can think of right now...How did you jfri fix your red cloud problem?

Hello Michael,I'm using REP as well and I had the same problem in the past. I used to think, "Man, those clouds sure are loaded with water!" REP has its own cloud textures which I believe replace the default ones. The problem is I don't know how I got rid of the "blue cloud" problem. I know for sure that I didn't mess with the suneffect texture directly. Oh, yes, I also have Soft Horizons (sky textures)...I have posted my CFG lines below, it might help...[DISPLAY]RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=.9RUNWAY_LIGHTS_VASI_SCALAR=.9RUNWAY_LIGHTS_APPROACH_SCALAR=.9RUNWAY_LIGHTS_STROBE_SCALAR=.9UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=20TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=70TEXTUREMAXLOAD=10[TERRAIN]TERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR=94.000000TERRAIN_MIN_DEM_AREA=10.000000TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=100.000000TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=20TERRAIN_TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=8TERRAIN_AUTOGEN_DENSITY=5TERRAIN_USE_GRADIENT_MAP=1TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=1TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=4TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=4TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=4[sCENERY]IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=4DYNAMIC_SCENERY=0DYN_SCN_DENSITY=0DAWN_DUSK_SMOOTHING=1SUNGLARE=1LENSFLARE=0Regards

Cool, thanks Onurksn,I've started from scratch today putting the default clouds back in (from FS Sky World) and am going to go from there. :( I could have sworn that REP didn't have clouds, but apparently I am wrong... :( I'll see if I can see a change with onurksn's cfg file. Cheers everyone and i'll keep you posted.More suggestions would be appreciated still!

No problem Mike!In the texture folder you can see the cloud textures. The REP interface will install any selected texture.Do give Soft Horizons a try. Even if it doesn't solve your issue, it's an excellent add-on. The library is down at the moment but it should be available on the flightsim website. If not just drop me a PM and I'll send it to you. :(

Sorry REP does NOT have cloud textures.

Sorry REP does NOT have cloud textures.

:( Tim, I could have sworn my clouds looked much better after I installed REP...Sorry Mike, you were right from the start!

No problem Mike!In the texture folder you can see the cloud textures. The REP interface will install any selected texture.Do give Soft Horizons a try. Even if it doesn't solve your issue, it's an excellent add-on. The library is down at the moment but it should be available on the flightsim website. If not just drop me a PM and I'll send it to you. :(

OK, thanks onurksn, i'll have a look in the library when it is back up, or over at flightsim. Today at some point I am going to play around with REP and FS Sky World and see if I can get better sky and cloud textures, without the water saturated clouds! :(

Tim, I could have sworn my clouds looked much better after I installed REP...Sorry Mike, you were right from the start!

But you know... I don't remember adding any clouds in, ever, and although it was a long time ago, the default ones, i'm sure changed after REP...? Maybe not? :( Anyway, i'll look into it, and hopefully post back later today or tommorow - either way there'll be no more blue clouds!Cheers

Michael, can you try to set the visibility range to maximum (-> no haze at all) and check if the clouds are still blue?

Cheers for the reply jfri.Yep, the white circle is the highlight, the rest of the picture is a bit darker than normal, the highlight is normal brightness, and the clouds in it are especially blue, I think they should be a dark grey colour, and on the other clouds, where their underside and edging is blue, they should be grey similarly... apparently not! :( I'll have a look into the suneffect file, that's the only thing I can think of right now...How did you jfri fix your red cloud problem?

I think I started to use Active Sky clouds. But I also now that I have later returned to FE and havn't seen the red colors. But I also think the situations has been somewhat different so during certain circumstances the colors can get wrong.

OK guys, After some mucking around with REP, FS Sky World, and MSFS skies and clouds in general, I have come to a conclusion:The sky itself seems to directly affect the cloud colour, as when I reinstalled the default cloud/sky textures, the result was the rather lame default sky, clouds and all, and then when I replaced the default sky textures with ONLY Real Environment Pro's sky textures, the colour of the clouds changed dramatically. ONLY the colour. They were still the default clouds with exactly the same structure/detail, but they just had changed colour to having a very obvious blue tint when above them. I then removed REP's sky textures, and, abracadabra, the default cloud colour returned... Correct me if I am wrong? :( So... I installed FS Sky World's sky textures and upgraded the clouds, and low and behold, they were as white as snow, and grey as... well, a grey cloud. No blue! I'm pretty happy with that! Horray! :( If you want i'll show you a screenshot (in similar conditions to the one for which I posted my problem)?

Michael, can you try to set the visibility range to maximum (-> no haze at all) and check if the clouds are still blue?

Hmm, good suggestion DieselTen, I think my visibility is unlimited, but how would reducing it change the cloud colour? B) I'll investigate it, as I would be fine with REP's sky, if it weren't for what they do to my default clouds... :( Cheers

Glad to hear that your problem is solved Michael! Thanks for keeping us posted.Happy landings

No problem. Much more importantly, thanks for all your help! :( I'll post if any thing changes but hopefully it won't! :( Cheers again guys.PS: What would we do without Avsim? - I'm glad we have almost really kicked that 'hacker' up the a**e! What a t**t! :(