Popcorn clouds continue in 2.5.12944

[Kuragiman]

Confirmed.   I made the same adjustments to my Cloud.fx as Mike and the thunderstorm west of Fort Worth actually became a thunderstorm to be reckoned with.   Did a hard right turn to get away from it as it started shaking my F22.    The point is... my softclouds look amazing again.  This is with 8 layers of clouds active.  I don't use SGSS at all or any MSAA either.  My shader software handles all of it thus my FPS doesn't get mangled with a lot of clouds on screen anymore with SGSS active.   I saw little to no FPS drop going from 0.5 to 0.7.   Thanks for reminding me about that cloud.fx setting Mike.   It really is interfering with REX's cloud textures.  It is shrinking them to much.

 

[Richard Sennett]

Nice I forgot about cloud.fx tweak as I always do it just forgot to mention oops

[snapitbik]

So richard  i am little bit confused so which is one most perfect weather engine and with realistic cloud layer, ASN or OPUSFS ? 

[Richard Sennett]

So richard  i am little bit confused so which is one most perfect weather engine and with realistic cloud layer, ASN or OPUSFS ? 

 

They both ate good - I find better fps with Opusfsi - you would need to make the choice but I can tell you there is an Opusfsi demo so why dont you try that - you can have ASN and Opusfsi loaded at the same time try each one with the same with the same scenerio and make your choice

[MikeAdamo]

Confirmed.   I made the same adjustments to my Cloud.fx as Mike and the thunderstorm west of Fort Worth actually became a thunderstorm to be reckoned with.   Did a hard right turn to get away from it as it started shaking my F22.    The point is... my softclouds look amazing again.  This is with 8 layers of clouds active.  I don't use SGSS at all or any MSAA either.  My shader software handles all of it thus my FPS doesn't get mangled with a lot of clouds on screen anymore with SGSS active.   I saw little to no FPS drop going from 0.5 to 0.7.   Thanks for reminding me about that cloud.fx setting Mike.   It really is interfering with REX's cloud textures.  It is shrinking them to much.

Great shot Captain K-Man and glad it helped out. There should be a sticky post at the top of the forum with this workaround so others won't feel it's just their install not giving them good cloud visuals.

 

Cheer!

 

Mike

[virtualstuff]

Well I'm happy with the default of 0.5 and soft clouds in combination of ASN :-)

 

No popcorn stuff, but realistic cloud layers for my own eyes lol :-)

 

 

 

[Kuragiman]

See AWF, that doesn't look right to my eyes.  After seeing what ASN could pump out in P3D v2.4, I knew something was wrong.   I was getting similar weather patterns too with distant clouds turning into little cotton balls.   I knew that wasn't right.   Changing the size slightly in the shader seemed to fix it for me.   Well as long as everyone is happy!  

[virtualstuff]

See AWF, that doesn't look right to my eyes.  After seeing what ASN could pump out in P3D v2.4, I knew something was wrong.   I was getting similar weather patterns too with distant clouds turning into little cotton balls.   I knew that wasn't right.   Changing the size slightly in the shader seemed to fix it for me.   Well as long as everyone is happy!  

 

Well going to test and see the difference and then we have the performance issue ;-)

You are maybe not aware that similar skies are in the real world lol

[Kuragiman]

Well they problem with comparing everyone's weather is we are not all on the same scenario with the same 'type' of weather.   I can only say that from .5 to .7 in my Thunderstorm test, it made a huuuuge difference in visual quality with no noticeable impact, and I fly with 8 layers of clouds on most of the time.

[virtualstuff]

Well they problem with comparing everyone's weather is we are not all on the same scenario with the same 'type' of weather.   I can only say that from .5 to .7 in my Thunderstorm test, it made a huuuuge difference in visual quality with no noticeable impact, and I fly with 8 layers of clouds on most of the time.

 

Could you make a screenshot at FL300 how it looks local just curious?

[gboz]

 

 

I don't use SGSS at all or any MSAA either. My shader software handles all of it

 

Brian just curious what you mean by shader software handling it?

I don't think too many systems would get away with no AA at all even at 4K.

Well, for clouds sure but not for everything else.

 

gb.

[Kuragiman]

Brian just curious what you mean by shader software handling it?

I don't think too many systems would get away with no AA at all even at 4K.

Well, for clouds sure but not for everything else.

 

gb.

 

http://reshade.me/

 

Have fun.     Fairly easy to install.   Finding your settings is what takes time.   I run in technicolor mode with their FXAA on with color curve corrections.

[Severne]

I hope LM will improve this because beside all the visual enhancement like volumetric fog and shadows, cloud depiction is a step backwards compared to FSX.

Especially in combination with ASN which still uses too much cumulus for overcast conditions.

 

I'm not talking about flying with an air moped at 3000 ft, that isn't a problem. :ph34r:

[gboz]

http://reshade.me/

 

Have fun.     Fairly easy to install.   Finding your settings is what takes time.   I run in technicolor mode with their FXAA on with color curve corrections.

 

Hey looks interesting.

Are you using it straight or the reshade+SweetFX2.0 combination?

 

gb.

[nudata]

Late thanks for advanced Weather location.

 

Lots of trial but success depends upon the acceptance levels of the Customer. .07 HLSL shader change just seems to mask the real problem. The basic "popcorn" clouds appear to be a base that gets stretched and colored in an attempt to depict various kinds of clouds. Soft clouds blur the clouds enough so that various settings reduce the appearance of fair weather popcorn, but do not solve it.