Light and Shade

[Novation 534]

Enjoying the cloud shadows and colouration in the XP-10 Demo with some dataref fiddling... nothing special, see it all before type shots, but my first on this platform.

 

 

 

 

I do like the way you can zoom in and the scenery does not turn to mush... there is much to admire here, just a shame the clouds are rubbish.

[woodhick 504]

Impressive indeed :-)

[Guest Mik75]

Superb shots!

[rsperge 182]

beautiful, II may say, even though I am a FSX man, with dx10

[Novation 534]

Thanks all.

 

beautiful, II may say, even though I am a FSX man, with dx10

 

Well, I'm a P3Dv2 man, but I am enjoying exploring the XP demo. Its a great sim without doubt and if I were starting from scratch I would have to think hard about which platform to invest in. If time and money were limitless then you could do it all; as it is I barely have time (and only enough money) for one sim.

[Murmur 3,940]

I do like the way you can zoom in and the scenery does not turn to mush... there is much to admire here, just a shame the clouds are rubbish.

 

Clouds look a bit better if you use the "set random and only semi-controlled weather patterns" weather screen, and set "coverage" and "system size" sliders to high (also, "randomization" set to high can yield good results), and then click on "Regenerate weather now!" (it's random for each click). However, to have good results you need to have high cloud density (around 100% in the rendering settings menu) and this is quite heavy on performance.

 

 

 

Also, there are some freeware replacement cloud textures that can improve their appearence somewhat:

 

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=18784

 

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=20389

 

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=18213

 

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=15603

[Pugilist2 878]

Looks great!

[Novation 534]

 

 

Clouds look a bit better if you use......

 

Thanks for that.. I will give those suggestions and replacement textures a go :smile:

[MikeT707 1,181]

Wow, those look great!

[A320FAN 370]

Very nice pics!

[MdMax 233]

Great shots ! :Applause: