That's your opinion. In my opinion, an other (very well known ) simulator has cartoonish and gaudy colours. Real life is most of the time more drab, because of all the haze in the air (humidity, dust particles, environmental pollution, ...). This other sim is really good in showing us what we want to see, even if it is not realistic (one more example is e.g. the "carribean blue" water all over the world).

 

Quick comment. From looking at a lot of video's, I see good and bad, for both. The real comment is about .......most of the time-- haze. That would certainly be a case of where someone lives and flys. Out here in the Mountain West, of the USA, there are many exceptional days, in which you can clearly see for over a hundred miles. It's those days, that I usually made it a point to schedule my flying activity. I'm not a fan of just seeing haze in the distance, which sometimes hides all of those mountains. With terrain mapping GPS, it's not a real issue. It's just not as fun, and flying cost's enough, that I'd rather see the excellent & colorful  panaramic scenery that surrounds us.

Gamma doesn't affect the vibrancy and saturation of colors. It's more of a contrast setting. I just wish the colors in XPX were a bit more vibrant and vivid. Or at least give us options to adjust it.

Gamma doesn't affect the vibrancy and saturation of colors. It's more of a contrast setting. I just wish the colors in XPX were a bit more vibrant and vivid. Or at least give us options to adjust it.

Gamma does affect saturation. Lower gamma (1.6 or 1.8 for me). Restart X-Plane. Tune your monitor contrast to compensate for darkened image (what's called "contrast" for monitors is actually more a lightness or gamma setting).

 

If you don't restart X-Plane inbetween, you'll have inconsistant results.

The real weather generation keeps things real and varied.  Yesterday I caught this view of Silicon Valley.  Clear day and most impressive is the atmospheric hazing 50 mi out.

 

Lower gamma definitely helps and with 64-bit of Xplane I am able to run textures="Very High" with SimHaven OSM + photoscenery and freeware highrez clouds+sky textures.  The future looks bright!

 

 

What freeware clouds and sky textures are you using? Sabachs? That's what I'm currently using and it still looks bad to me. The clouds don't look right and I can't make out as to why.

Yes using Sabach HDR environment X 1.2.  Have Cloud detail=35%.  What is your textures setting?  You running with HDR?

 

Maybe #8 in the package will help you out.

 

1- New 3D clouds 

2 - New Sky

3 - New 3D smoke

4 - Some shader architecture

5 - New Moon HD

6 - New skids (runway touch marks)

7 - New lights

8 - More sun (clear weather only)

9 - Improvements menu (bonus)