This sim is starting to be quite a looker!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W O W!!! Gorgeous.

I agree, with Carenado planes and all that freeware scenery, X-Plane 10 is starting to look really good.

Looks amazing, great set of shots!

 

Marko

Wow that looks amazing!!! What add-ons are you using to achieve that? I'm starting to fall in love with X-Plane all over again. I haven't even touched P3D for months now. X-Plane is really shaping up to be the next gen flight sim for me. Is that the new Carenado CT206H?

 

I'm assuming those are the default X-Plane clouds, since I am seeing cloud shadows? SMP doesn't support cloud shadows, am I right?

Yes it's the Carenado. The only significant addon for the shots other than the plane is the Real Terra Haze lua scripts (not clouds or water - don't like them so much) with a few extra atmosphere tweaks cobbled together from Pascal.

 

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=22387

 

Yes, clouds are default. Unfortunately it looks like SMP simply won't be able to put shadows in. Anyway the default clouds are getting a bit more attractive recently, if still a bit frames heavy with higher AA.

AH! Now we talk!  I like the snow!!!!

Scotchegg are your screenshots from XP 10.30b5? It looks amazing, kind of shocked that those are default clouds. 

 

Can you please share your atmospheric tweaks that you got from pascal? I would love to give it a try. If you don't mind.

 

Thanks in advance! 

I use the RTH_atmos scripts from the package above plus the following in a separate text file:

 

set( "sim/private/controls/clouds/cloud_shadow_lighten_ratio",       0.9000 )

set( "sim/private/controls/lights/bloom_far", 3000.00 ) 

set( "sim/private/controls/lights/bloom_near", 120.00 )

set( "sim/private/controls/lights/mix_big", 80.000 ) 

set( "sim/private/controls/lights/mix_small", 25.00) 

set( "sim/private/controls/lights/bloom_for_zoom", 0.60) 

set( "sim/private/controls/shadow/scenery_shadows", 1.00) 

set( "sim/private/controls/clouds/limit_far",  0.500000)

 

Definitely looks better than anything for the other sim in terms of cloud rendering, at least to me and as far as stratified clouds go.

 

When it comes to convective, highly developed clouds, XP10 still misses it...

scotchegg thank you very much for your settings. :)

Gorgeous shots!

Yes it's the Carenado. The only significant addon for the shots other than the plane is the Real Terra Haze lua scripts (not clouds or water - don't like them so much) with a few extra atmosphere tweaks cobbled together from Pascal.

 

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=22387

 

Yes, clouds are default. Unfortunately it looks like SMP simply won't be able to put shadows in. Anyway the default clouds are getting a bit more attractive recently, if still a bit frames heavy with higher AA.

 

You say significant add-ons are just the scripts, are you not using photo real scenery too? I'd say that's a pretty significant to the look you have achieved - Unless of course X-Plane's textures got snow in a recent update?

No photo-scenery although I should have mentioned of course HDmesh2 is used. I think the snow and ice textures have been changed a bit in 10.3... but all textures are default.

Outstanding shots!