Thanks for sharing. I made a git on bitbucket for those that might want to just download the tweaked files instead of hunting through the lines: https://bitbucket.org/pnirattisai/p3d-hdr-tweaks

 

Feel free to edit them. For me, the nights look great but I'm still tweaking it for a brighter daytime. I'm sure it's because I'm using the HDE skytextures which are darker than the default.

Thanks bro !

Thanks - much easier just loading up the tweaked files - maybe a good idea would be a web page that has different ones to try (community created versions)

Thanks - much easier just loading up the tweaked files - maybe a good idea would be a web page that has different ones to try (community created versions)

Sure. That can easily be done if they post their settings here, then I can simply upload it to the same place. People can even compare the file differences.

Hey guys  glad the tweaks are working for many of you.  By the way those files are under copyright from LM so not sure if distributing them is the greatest idea, although I agree it would make things easier.    Also some of you are having trouble getting the daytime to be bright enough, is this only in the external view, or is it too dark in the cockpit as well?  If its ok in the vc view you may need to tone down the aggressiveness of the hdr using the difference multiplier or perhaps add in more bloom.  In the external view the sim thinks things are much brighter and may render things too dark if the hdr is too aggressive.  It is also possible that using an extreme value for avg luminace may darken things so much that you cannot  brighten them properly, try to use the lowest number possible and make sure you test night brightness on 2/18/15 so there is no moon.

I downloaded the zip,and have overwritten the 2 files,deleted the shaders folder,why do I still see clouds at night?

 

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w205/B1900Mech/Lockheed%20P3D/Issues/2015-3-31_16-54-45-898.png

The result looks awesome!

Here's my own tweaks with HDE v2 skies and clouds. I'm liking the brightness/glare from the clouds.

 

Hey guys  glad the tweaks are working for many of you.

 

Mike yo have done an amazing job but night is to dark I like the brighter nights what do I change to that - I know there is this // but using your settings want to hear from you what I should do - great stuff - thank you

Mike yo have done an amazing job but night is to dark I like the brighter nights what do I change to that - I know there is this // but using your settings want to hear from you what I should do - great stuff - thank you

As he said in the first post, the value he gave of 1.20 for night is just a starting point. You'll have to adjust it to fit your monitor. In this case, try changing the

 

avgLuminance *= 1.20f;

 

to something like

 

avgLuminance *= 1.40f; or even 1.60f

 

this is on line 166 by the way. EDIT: Oops doing this (increasing the value) will make the night darker. Someone above asked for a dark night. Doing the opposite makes it lighter.

Edited March 31, 201511 yr by willywonka

As he said in the first post

 

 

Thank you

Mike yo have done an amazing job but night is to dark I like the brighter nights what do I change to that - I know there is this // but using your settings want to hear from you what I should do - great stuff - thank you

Hey Rich, you will want to lower avg luminance not raise it if your night is too dark.  A higher avg luminance value will darken nighttime.

Super will do - thank you for the hard work

Super will do - thank you for the hard work

You are very welcome, glad to help.

Why are clouds still bright?

Why are clouds still bright?

If you have calibrated your monitor and are testing on the date 2/18/15 as outlined in the first post your avg luminance value on line 166 is set too low.