Brighter terrain, darker cloud shadows - DONE!

[JasonW 32]

Following this thread, I'll let you guys work the bugs out.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

I have

 

Hi I believe I tried trees and buildings shadows on - made no difference - will try again but if so not willing to take the hit as I dont really fly much during the day 

[rdtv91 73]

Hi - yes the shadows don't affect buildings etc and I noticed my pay ware airports namely uk2000 also don't have any shadows so are standing out like a sore thumb (must note that I do have sim objects receive so Uk2000 scenery does accept cloud shadows just this tweak isn't affecting it at all...

 

Thanks

^ following on from above - I have all shadows enabled in p3d options

[roland_lfor 249]

Glad to see a solution to darken terrain below cloud.

 

The incoming question is:

- How can we darken trees & buildings below clouds in the same ratio?

 

I've made some tests and those are not affected by the shadow tweak.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

Hi - yes the shadows don't affect buildings etc and I noticed my pay ware airports namely uk2000 also don't have any shadows so are standing out like a sore thumb (must note that I do have sim objects receive so Uk2000 scenery does accept cloud shadows just this tweak isn't affecting it at all...

 

Thanks

^ following on from above - I have all shadows enabled in p3d options

 

Are you in agreement its not working properly ?

[rdtv91 73]

Agreed with above - we really need to find the shader to tweak simobjects, trees and buildings same way as terrain*

[KNOSSOS 122]

Glad to see a solution to darken terrain below cloud.

 

The incoming question is:

- How can we darken trees & buildings below clouds in the same ratio?

 

I've made some tests and those are not affected by the shadow tweak.

 

http://www.avsim.com/topic/486643-brighter-terrain-darker-cloud-shadows-done/page-6#entry3403232

 

shader file General.fx, line #663.

 

I think there is no balanced solution to use extremely dark shadows (with coeff. 0.1) without turning on trees, vegetation and simobjects receive shadows and making this correction in general.fx.

[roland_lfor 249]

Thanks!

 I missed this one (but I was looking to the file/line)

 

Let's try it!

[pincopanco 5]

IMHO, with these tricks volumetric fog and ASN visibility have problems.

[roland_lfor 249]

It's working fine, but I won't put the same ratio than the one in GPUTerrain.fx (line 720).

I'm going to set less. For example for 0.1f in GPUTerrain, I'll probably set 0.6f in general.fx

 

The ratio in general.fx works also on 3D cockpit shadow, so if you set 0.1f, you'll need a lighter to find the throttle

 

EDIT: I don't use HDR

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

yes another issue - dark VC - not a fan of that - hoping this becomes something very cool

[roland_lfor 249]

With 0.1f and 0.6f (no other tweak, no HDR), I like it  :smile:

 

[molleh 451]

Hmm, I don't have any issues at all with the tweaks here, although I did settle on 0.75 for the darker shadows as noted by KNOSSOS. Looks great, with very very good looking shadows and haze:

 

 

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

Hmm, I don't have any issues at all with the tweaks here, although I did settle on 0.75 for the darker shadows as noted by KNOSSOS. Looks great, with very very good looking shadows and haze:

 

 

 

 

 

Daytime - now try dawn and dusk - not so good

[molleh 451]

I see no issues with dawn or dusk rendering..