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Can anyone kindly point me to a very realistic sun.cfg setting ?

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Can anyone kindly point me to a very realistic sun.cfg setting?

 

My sun looks awful at sunset.

 

Paul 

Hiya,

This is my first post, so please excuse any mistakes or transgressions against proper posting protocol... But please tell me if I have.

 

Anyway,

 

In case you don't have this utility, check this out:

 

http://www.strikingsoftware.com/forum/index.php?topic=454.0

 

There is a discussion, pictures, and a link to the software.

 

It's free and it works. It's a modifed version of Nick N's (who is pretty much a god when it comes to FSX, at least that's what I think, anyway) original sun fix.

The only thing I did, was something that I read someone else mentioned - I think in Avsim: In the sun effect config file (sorry, I don't have the exact file name as I'm not at my FSX computer), edit the SUN SIZE to a smaller number - I used 500, when my original number was something like 1800.

The smaller sun looked a bit better to me but I would suggest playing around with whaterver number looks good to you. I didn't change any of the other numbers as I liked everything else about the sun except for the size.

Good luck!

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Thank you for your post and welcome! I'll give it a try.

 

Thanks 

 

Paul

I use the sun tweak mod from the Shade forum with Lazy Sun texture from REX. But I personally increase the sun cfg size to 3500. This may be large for some but at sunset seems to look pretty realistic even with bloom disabled, especially at sunset.

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REX has some great sun textures. I use 'Standard'. Nothing fancy - just looks realistic to me.

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thomamaxi, thank you for the welcome!

 

SolRayz, I tried your sun size setting - WOW! The sun looked huge and made for a beautiful sunrise over the water!

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