November 5, 201312 yr I'm using the demo version. One of the first things I noticed is that even with clear weather in the middle of the day it looks very muted. Hard to explain with words. It just seems like I'm flying in an indoor world. Is there a way to make it look really "sunny"? FSX: PMDG 744/MD11/JS41/736/737/738/739, CS752/753/763/C130, SimCheck A300, Leonardo MD82, MJC DH8D, Aerosoft CRJ7/CRJ9/A318/A319/A320/A321, RAZBAM Metroliner, ORBX Global, FlyTampa KBUF/OMDB/TNCM/VHHX, ActiveSky Next DCS: A-10C II/F-16C/AH-64D/F-15E/KA-50 III/Mi-24/Persian Gulf/Syria/F-15C XP11: FF 752/753, iniBuilds A306, HotStart TBM900 MSFS: Fenix A320, FS2Crew Fenix A320, FS2Crew Pushback Express, PMDG B77W, ActiveSky FS, Drzewiecki Design UUEE
November 5, 201312 yr Up the gama to like 2.8 and restart the sim.... You could also try my freeware skymaxx sky colors....maxx-xp.hiking-pa.com
November 5, 201312 yr HDR also brightens things up, but can come with a pretty severe performance hit. "No matter how eloquent you are or how solidly and firm you've built your case, you will never win in an argument with an idiot, for he is too stupid to recognize his own defeat." ~Anonymous.
November 5, 201312 yr Author Up the gama to like 2.8 and restart the sim.... You could also try my freeware skymaxx sky colors....maxx-xp.hiking-pa.com Gamma helped a little but hard to increase much without washing out the cockpit instruments. Your Skymaxx makes it look MUCH better. Thank you! FSX: PMDG 744/MD11/JS41/736/737/738/739, CS752/753/763/C130, SimCheck A300, Leonardo MD82, MJC DH8D, Aerosoft CRJ7/CRJ9/A318/A319/A320/A321, RAZBAM Metroliner, ORBX Global, FlyTampa KBUF/OMDB/TNCM/VHHX, ActiveSky Next DCS: A-10C II/F-16C/AH-64D/F-15E/KA-50 III/Mi-24/Persian Gulf/Syria/F-15C XP11: FF 752/753, iniBuilds A306, HotStart TBM900 MSFS: Fenix A320, FS2Crew Fenix A320, FS2Crew Pushback Express, PMDG B77W, ActiveSky FS, Drzewiecki Design UUEE
November 6, 201312 yr Gamma helped a little but hard to increase much without washing out the cockpit instruments. Your Skymaxx makes it look MUCH better. Thank you! Awesome Im glad I cloud could help, I only pointed out my sky colors since they are easy to find but many have put together other options you may like better. Sky colors are a subjective topic in X-plane you should explore more options to find what suits your taste.....
November 6, 201312 yr I'm using the demo version. One of the first things I noticed is that even with clear weather in the middle of the day it looks very muted. Hard to explain with words. It just seems like I'm flying in an indoor world. Is there a way to make it look really "sunny"? I don't much like the default lighting either. The tones are not very "Sun-like" and to me are very white with no hint of warmth, pretty much like bright fluorescent light. In fact the whole sim is pretty washed out and monotone to my eyes, but I think it will probably take an Orbx equivalent for the xplane world to finally receive some living color. In the meantime, I will probably nab skymaxx as well. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
November 6, 201312 yr I am really looking forward to SkyMAXX and an update to your ground textures.. :rolleyes: Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W, G.SKILL 48Gb@76000 MHz DDR5, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the day and night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”.
November 6, 201312 yr I think it will probably take an Orbx equivalent for the xplane world to finally receive some living color Hi Devon, I don't think Orbx worked on illumination in FSX (I could be wrong :wink:). One product that I had in FSX that did upgrade the lighting was called Shade, I believe. Then there was ENBseries that allowed to tweak contrast levels. With HDR, we should be able to get satisfactory levels of light intensity. I think it might need some work though. I actually turn down gamma in the control panel, to get more contrast. Unfortunately, it kills those bright sun drenched days we long for. John's SkyMAXX will probably help, as the perpetual grey clouds that populate the skies on sunny days, should be gone. Long live white clouds! :lol:
November 6, 201312 yr Hi Devon, I don't think Orbx worked on illumination in FSX (I could be wrong :wink:). One product that I had in FSX that did upgrade the lighting was called Shade, I believe. Then there was ENBseries that allowed to tweak contrast levels. With HDR, we should be able to get satisfactory levels of light intensity. I think it might need some work though. I actually turn down gamma in the control panel, to get more contrast. Unfortunately, it kills those bright sun drenched days we long for. John's SkyMAXX will probably help, as the perpetual grey clouds that populate the skies on sunny days, should be gone. Long live white clouds! :lol: Yah, I was probably unclear. What I really meant was that the overly white light from the sun tends to affect the colors of everything else, like the contrast and hue of the buildings and ground textures, which contributes to a feeling of "wrongness" in the visual aspect of the sim. That "indoor" feeling that the OP, mentioned, which I've always described as a "fluorescent light" effect. It seems to drown colors and to help rob many of the games textures of that wide dynamic range and detail that I enjoy from the Orbx texture work In fact, as well as trying all of the sims visual settings one by one, I've recently (in the last few days) realized the sim probably desperately needs some contrast controls. And yes, in the end, I finally just turned the clouds off. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
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