I am for sure staying with DX10. With airports like Vancouver by FSDT FSX has just gone better and better. These new patches for DX10 is so good that performance is so smooth. I only missing some ENB bloom as i have undocked screens over 3monitors

 

Michael Moe

Hi Michael! SweetFX will completely replace ENB: It does adjust the brightness,and bloom, just as ENB does, but there's so much more you could play with it for days! 

Here are two SweetFX_setting.txt files to try.

When you make a change - do it in windowed mode, save it, then switch to full screen: if you don't like it, switch back to windowed, and do it again! It's that simple. These and  these pics are quite subdued, but one can make the colors as bright as one wants. They're best viewed as "Original".

Guys - which version of SweetFX are you using?

 

At the time of switching to DX10 I had a perfect setup for ENB but as you know it doesn't work in DX10. Although I download (at the time) what I thought was the latest version of SweetFX it always crashes on me for some reason. I had a similar issue with ENB until I found a stable version.

 

I know I'm being lazy and could go on the search but if you can point me in the direction of the version you are using I'd love to give it another try.

It's ok - you can be lazy if you like! I'll help you - it's in the post - #4, two or three above..

Thanks Paul missed the links when I first read it on my tablet doh!

Hi Michael! SweetFX will completely replace ENB: It does adjust the brightness,and bloom, just as ENB does, but there's so much more you could play with it for days! 

Here are two SweetFX_setting.txt files to try.

When you make a change - do it in windowed mode, save it, then switch to full screen: if you don't like it, switch back to windowed, and do it again! It's that simple. These and  these pics are quite subdued, but one can make the colors as bright as one wants. They're best viewed as "Original".

 

 

 

Hi Poul

 

I have FSX in window mode because i have the PFD/ND on a second monitor and a FMC on a third. Will SweetFX be able to deal with this ? You know ENB does not

 

Thanks

 

Michael moe 

Paul J, on 01 May 2013 - 11:42 PM, said:

 

It's ok - you can be lazy if you like! I'll help you - it's in the post - #4, two or three above..

 

Paul - Great! So far so good. I have used the second set of settings you linked and tweaked it just a little by adjusting HDRPower to 1.15 to compensate for differences in monitor settings etc.

 

Bri

 

EDIT: Just a thought regarding monitor settings and how to set them up, when I was messing with FXAA I created a monitor set-up guide and thought Id share the link for anyone that's interested. (the first section deals with monitor set up after that it rambles on about FXAA.)

Setting up the monitor correctly applies to SweetFX too IMO.

Hope someone finds it useful.

 

https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=5D9E788DD9BB64D7&resid=5D9E788DD9BB64D7%21167&authkey=AHAgcgIpSccpep8

Link no workie

Link no workie

 

Mystery, it works for me in IE ok but here is another one to try...

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cb6kgp0fy1tbtql/FXAA.pdf

Still not working maybe because I am at work have to try later at home, thanks.

Link worked fine at home - thank you.

@Michael Moe 

 

Your post was split off from another post as it was off-topic from the post you had originally posted at (http://forum.avsim.net/topic/406576-dipping-a-toe-into-dx10/).

 

Best regards,

Jim

Hi Poul

 

I have FSX in window mode because i have the PFD/ND on a second monitor and a FMC on a third. Will SweetFX be able to deal with this ? You know ENB does not

 

Thanks

 

Michael moe 

I don't see why not, Michael: it thinks it's a part of FSX, being in the root folder.

 

ENB series is a whole different cucumber, though, and it was (for me) never reliable enough to warrant working with it the way we have with SweetFX. The effects that this super little addon can do are just nothing short of amazing! It has made a whole new sim! (again) :lol:  

Thanks Poul

 

But i just installed the sweetfx 1.4 to E/FSX and i tried both the files and changed the sweetfxsettings.txt and change the parametres but i seem to get a bluelike cockpit and no Bloom effects i think. This is NOT ENB bloom  :-) . Am i doing something wrong?

 

Am i doing something wrong?

 

 

I don't know, Michael!!  :lol:

 

One can turn off any or all of the settings at the top of the settings page, and so the best way to proceed would be for you to disable all of them first, and then enable them one at a time if you want to find out what each individual function will do - at least that was my method of finding out. The default settings will be wrong for most people, I suspect, just as when looking at twenty televisions in a TV store - all monitors/displays a slightly different. 

 

This enables Bloom:- It must be a "1" to get any Bloom.

 

#define USE_BLOOM  1 //  [0 or 1] Bloom : Makes bright lights bleed their light into their surroundings (relatively high performance cost)   Making it a "0" will disable it.

 

 

Then you need to set how much Bloom:-

#define BloomPower 1.000    //    [0.000 to 8.000] Strength of the bloom

 

 

Now - define how wide the "Glow" or "Shine" is:-

#define BloomWidth 0.09    //[0.0000 to 1.0000] Width of the bloom

 

 

..and the last one is the point where the white surface begins to glow...

#define BloomThreshold 25.25 //  [0.00 to 50.00] Threshold for what is a bright light (that causes bloom) and what isn't.

 

Try it this way and then come back here.