Now with new textures and cloud colours at sunset (still have to be further refined), overcast at 30 fps:

 

Murmur, it look tremendous!

 

Would it be possible to create a Lua / Sasl plugin to automatically alter those datarefs you need to tweak each time we fire the sim, and save the user from having to do it manually through the dataref editor ?  I'm lazy, I know :-)

 

Nothing fancy with a menu or so... Eventually a collection of scripts one would activate depending on the colors and cloud parameters one would like t fly with...

 

Would it be possible to create a Lua / Sasl plugin to automatically alter those datarefs you need to tweak each time we fire the sim, and save the user from having to do it manually through the dataref editor ?  I'm lazy, I know :-)

jcomm, this is easy to do, just create in the folder

  /plugins/FlyWithLua/scripts

a new lua file, for example, name it: 

  altered_dataref.lua

Then in this file, set the datarefs as you wish, as an example one of murmurs proposals:

  set( "sim/private/controls/clouds/first_res_3d",     2 )

You can lookup in the list the exact names of the datarefs you want to change permanently and add them here.

FlyWithLua will read what you set here and changes it for you at startup.

Of course, another script could alter this change again.

And I don't know in which order scripts are loaded at startup.

Thx jh71.

 

 

I'll try that :-)

Thx jh71.

 

 

I'll try that :-)

 

 

It works

jcomm, this is easy to do, just create in the folder

  /plugins/FlyWithLua/scripts

a new lua file, for example, name it: 

  altered_dataref.lua

Then in this file, set the datarefs as you wish, as an example one of murmurs proposals:

  set( "sim/private/controls/clouds/first_res_3d",     2 )

You can lookup in the list the exact names of the datarefs you want to change permanently and add them here.

FlyWithLua will read what you set here and changes it for you at startup.

Of course, another script could alter this change again.

And I don't know in which order scripts are loaded at startup.

 

Would someone be kind enough to share the LUA script. I am still very unsure about the whole writing scripts

 

Happy Friday !

 

Richard

Would someone be kind enough to share the LUA script. I am still very unsure about the whole writing scripts

 

Happy Friday !

 

Richard

 

Richard, 

 

thx for asking... I was about to do the same, but as a programmer and IT professional for quite a long time, I was a bit ashamed of asking such a thing.... :-)

Would someone be kind enough to share the LUA script. I am still very unsure about the whole writing scripts

 

Happy Friday !

 

Richard

 

 

Under "FlywithLua/Scripts/HERE CREATE A FILE WITH THE EXTENSION .Lua" and put the below mentioned text.

 

  set( "sim/private/controls/clouds/first_res_3d",     2 )

 

  set( "sim/private/controls/clouds/plot_radius",      1.5 )

 

  set( "sim/private/controls/beaches/kill_beaches",      1 )

Zulfi, why are you killing the beaches ?

Zulfi, why are you killing the beaches ?

 

 

Because I hate to see that sandy strip everywhere there is water

 

Under "FlywithLua/Scripts/HERE CREATE A FILE WITH THE EXTENSION .Lua" and put the below mentioned text.

 

  set( "sim/private/controls/clouds/first_res_3d",     2 )

 

  set( "sim/private/controls/clouds/plot_radius",      1.5 )

 

  set( "sim/private/controls/beaches/kill_beaches",      1 )

 

 

Thank you for the quick response,

 

I will give this a try

Ok!

 

I finally tried these mod, and the results are indeed GREAT!

 

I know Murmur continues to explore this cloud stuff, so, I look forward for any additional mods he may publish, and will certainly try it.

 

The performance is great with the values Zulfi is using ( as per Murmur's recommendation ).

With those two data values the gain in fps for my laptop is 1.5-2 fps and that is still good for me as the GPU is weak.

With those two data values the gain in fps for my laptop is 1.5-2 fps and that is still good for me as the GPU is weak.

 

You could also trying a further increase of "sim/private/controls/clouds/first_res_3d" from 2 to 3, and at the same time reducing the plot_radius a little (1.2 - 1.3 or so). Also, you could try decreasing "sim/private/controls/clouds/last_res_3d" from 5 to 4, this limits the cloud draw distance but is only noticeable on some limited situations.

 

With these changes, your FPS should increase more. But remember that any time you changes any dataref, you have to do a weather regeneration to make sure all changes influence visuals AND performance.

 

To do a weather regeneration, you can just move e.g. the visibility slider and then put it back (you'll see the clouds redrawing in the weather screen when you do that).