Another experiment, cloud tweaking.

[Murmur]

I did some further experiments with the cloud and their colors. In the following screenshots, the clouds have been subjected to the following tweaks:

 

1) increased cloud textures resolution;

 

2) increased cloud puffs plot radius: this produces denser clouds even at low cloud rendering settings; also, clouds are softer and a performance is a bit better;

 

3) closest circle of cloud puffs not drawn: this increases a bit performance and eliminates the ugly visual boundary between the two closest cloud puffs circles (a sort of a "cloud rings" effect, visible with default clouds in overcast conditions)

 

4) modified cloud colors: more vivid sunset glow and post-twilight blue hue; just quick-and-dirty modifications

 

All of this are very preliminary experiments, made in a few hours and without even modifying default textures, but I think they demonstrate the potential of the default X-Plane cloud engine. If Laminar fixes a couple of limitations (performance, clouds not moving with wind, and a couple others), IMO this engine can provide visual stunning effects in the hand of the right artist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pascal_LSGC]

WOW !

Go! go!  Tweak, Murmur!!! :lol:

The first shot is absolutely perfect!

 

pascal

[alexcolka]

Amazing job! Thanks for sharing

 

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[Guest Mik75]

OMG!!! I mean... OMG!!!

[JakobG]

Holy.... That's the way to go.

[CapnSplat]

Wow! I'll say it again: it's amazing what potential X-Plane has under the hood! Nice work!

[Murmur]

Another couple shots:

 

 

 

 

[Humpty]

Bloody hell , makes me want get a new GPU 

[jspahn]

And you will need one...LOL  :ph34r:

[Murmur]

And you will need one...LOL  :ph34r:

 

Let's hope Laminar (or maybe someone from our community) will optimize performance in some way (tweaked shaders, etc.). At least, most of us hope so... :ph34r: There are, already now, a couple of tweaks that improve somewhat performance, but further optimizations would be welcomed.

[scotchegg]

There are so many variables it boggles the mind to think what might be possible in the engine. There's a whole load of water settings as well which someone who knows what they're doing (i.e. not me) should take a look at...

[twiggys]

Well done Murmur; thank you for sharing these true to life screenshots of XPX.

[Humpty]

Has anyone tested with ground shadows ? 

[skully]

Beautiful!

Those colors really pop on the retina display of my ipad air.

[yan1545]

Hi look amazing can you show us how to do that please ? :rolleyes: