January 13, 201610 yr Commercial Member I reworked my custom sky textures for FSX, added blue haze, reworked my SweetFX preset for DX10 just a bit, this is the result - the most realistic visuals I've seen in FSX to date, from my point of view. I'm so glad I reworked sky textures! These were taken on a descent to LPPT (Lisbon). Not edited in any way! If you ask me, this looks way more realistic than any presets I've seen, especially dark ones which are very popular. On my monitor this preset looks perfect in terms of brightness and hue. FSX DX10 + FTX Global + Vector + OpenLC EU + REX Soft Clouds + Active Sky Next + FsPassengers + NGX. Thanks for looking! Current system: ASUS PRIME Z690-P D4, Intel 12900k, 32GB RAM @ 3600mhz, Zotac RTX 3090 Trinity, M2 SSD, Oculus Quest 2.
January 14, 201610 yr Your settings look great. Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W, G.SKILL 48Gb@76000 MHz DDR5, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the day and night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”.
January 14, 201610 yr Great shots! They do look very realistic indeed. Welcome to Lisbon, Captain! :wink: Regards, Hugo Bravo LPPT
January 14, 201610 yr Moderator Looks good and nice and bright, like the real world. I don't like the look of really dark ground and sky that I see posted here a lot. The world is bright when you go out on a fairly clear day. Btw, how did you "rework" your sky textures, meaning what tool did you use? Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
January 14, 201610 yr They do look good! Sort of looking more "XP10" like hehe | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
January 14, 201610 yr Author Commercial Member Great shots! They do look very realistic indeed. Welcome to Lisbon, Captain! :wink: Thank you! I should visit it more often. :smile: Looks good and nice and bright, like the real world. I don't like the look of really dark ground and sky that I see posted here a lot. The world is bright when you go out on a fairly clear day. Btw, how did you "rework" your sky textures, meaning what tool did you use? Exactly, the world is bright when you go out on a fairly clear day, and I'm trying for years to mimic that in FSX. I adjusted all sky textures in Photoshop to match my SweetFX preset, by adjusting saturation, hue and brightness. Few days ago I added blue X-Plane like haze on day sky textures after looking at some real life high altitude photos. They do look good! Sort of looking more "XP10" like hehe I love that X-Plane blue haze style, it looks brilliant and realistic. Current system: ASUS PRIME Z690-P D4, Intel 12900k, 32GB RAM @ 3600mhz, Zotac RTX 3090 Trinity, M2 SSD, Oculus Quest 2.
January 14, 201610 yr At the beginning I believe it was Xplane Beautiful shots :smile: Walter Almaraz
January 14, 201610 yr Hi, Pe11e, These are great shots. I love FSX DX10! Once a stable platform has been put together, and enhancing is experimented with FSX, one can obtain some outstanding results. Just like these shots. Thanks for sharing these. Jim Jim Wilkerson - Official FAA Certified Chief Lav Cleaner and Soap Dispenser Filler-Upper A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~ Author unknown
January 14, 201610 yr Author Commercial Member Hi, Pe11e, These are great shots. I love FSX DX10! Once a stable platform has been put together, and enhancing is experimented with FSX, one can obtain some outstanding results. Just like these shots. Thanks for sharing these. Jim Yeah, FSX DX10 is the way to go! And on top of all it's the main culprit why I didn't still migrated to P3D v3 which I purchased, and sadly not using except for some testing when it was released. As you said, once a stable platform has been put together - everything works perfectly, without any glitches, smooth. I don't have an urge to migrate to any other platform right now. Few more from descent and approach to LEBL: Current system: ASUS PRIME Z690-P D4, Intel 12900k, 32GB RAM @ 3600mhz, Zotac RTX 3090 Trinity, M2 SSD, Oculus Quest 2.
January 14, 201610 yr Would you care to share your files with us? "I am the Master of the Fist!" -Akuma
January 14, 201610 yr Fantastic screenshots! Would you mind sharing? Wybe Witteveen VATSIM S3 Controller | Dutch VACC
January 14, 201610 yr Wow these are amazing. Could you please share your settings How I Evaluate Third Party Sim Addon Developers Refined P3Dv5.0 HF2 Settings Part1 (has MaddogX) and older thread Part 2 (has PMDG 747)
January 14, 201610 yr Author Commercial Member Stay tuned, I will share the textures and sweetfx preset later today. Cheers guys Current system: ASUS PRIME Z690-P D4, Intel 12900k, 32GB RAM @ 3600mhz, Zotac RTX 3090 Trinity, M2 SSD, Oculus Quest 2.
January 14, 201610 yr Stay tuned, I will share the textures and sweetfx preset later today. Cheers guys You, kind sir, are amazing. Wybe Witteveen VATSIM S3 Controller | Dutch VACC
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