Prepar3D Tweak Assistant (PTA)

[onebob 125]

One of the great things about PTA (that you don't get with Reshade) is the ability to set effects on a *per camera* basis. That means I could lighten up the VC (which can sometimes be overly dark

Thanks for sharing your preset Adam, Been trying to get the vc a little lighter in the AC 500s, using ezdok. which shader and values do I use.

 

bob

[Manny 1,293]

I'm going to add a couple of tweaks for clouds in next release,

 

Firrt off.. Thank you Yuri for this amazing tool. I have not tweeked anything.. I can't get past the atmospherics. Love it.

 

I have a Q. I was using SweetFX prior to your tool. I had not removed that prior to running your tool. PTA.

 

My Question.. Should I remove the SweetFX or do I leave that alone?  How do I merge the two? Do I need to do that even? 

[vertigho 8]

Adam and Vertigho mind sharing your PTA settings?

 

Montie, unfortunately I will be out of town (and therefore away from my PC) until Wednesday evening. I will post my settings when I return. 

[KNOSSOS 122]

 

 

Should I remove the SweetFX or do I leave that alone?  How do I merge the two? Do I need to do that even? 

Manny, you can continue using SweetFX with PTA. No restrictions to use them together.

 

[holliwutt 11]

Hi,

 

What about the use of PTA and DSR ?

 

regards Kalle

[GSalden 4,655]

Guys, are the default settings I see when opening PTA the same as what I have at that time in my untouched P3D ?

 

I would like to have a Default P3D ini..

[Adamski_NZ 948]

What about the use of PTA and DSR ?

 

I would guess PTA is totally independent of DSR. I use DSR 4x quite happily with PTA - and get the usual higher resolution (combined with whatever softening/sharpening setting you use). It's a good combination, but I only go ito it it to take screenshots - otherwise I stay in non-DSR (windowed) mode for better frame rates.

 

Adam.

 

BTW, folks, I started a new thread (so as not to clutter this thread) - for posting screenshots+settings - here:

http://www.avsim.com/topic/490178-prepar3d-tweak-assistant-pta-screenshots-presets/

[Adamski_NZ 948]

I have a question for you, Yuri!

 

A user on the ORBX forums asked about the awful volumetric fog banding that sometimes occurs in P3D. I used to see this from time to time - and could usually get rid of it by changing something in OPUS Live Weather that would force a shader rebuild and the hard line would go away for a while.

 

Since experimenting with PTA - under all sorts of weather conditions - I've not seen this banding re-occur. My guess is that the distant haze tweak has somehow improved things. Is it possible that your shader tweak has killed this unfortunate P3D effect? Or is it just a coincidence?

 

Adam.

[KNOSSOS 122]

Hi, Adam!

Terrain haze tweak (left one on page "Terrain") affects only color of the fog, not geometry. I think it's just a coincidence. Hard lines exist just above/below upper/lower visibility layers and caused by the fog calculation algorithm.

[Manny 1,293]

To restore original shader files, Can we not install P3D in another PC temporarily (laptop) but not activate the sim. But get the shaders from this new install ?

[Adamski_NZ 948]

Terrain haze tweak (left one on page "Terrain") affects only color of the fog, not geometry. I think it's just a coincidence. Hard lines exist just above/below upper/lower visibility layers and caused by the fog calculation algorithm.

 

Thanks Yuri - in that case, it looks like maybe the new 3.3.5 version has improved the algorithm

 

Adam.

[Adamski_NZ 948]

Yuri - could you please explain a bit more about the Clouds "Blend distance adjustment"? This sentence may have got translated a little oddly - I can't really understand it!

 

"The distance at which the clouds rotate to face your viewpoint. Clouds will be fully volumize from this distance (in meters), reducing to 0 at doubled distance. Default value is 3000."

 

Does that mean clouds get fully volumised at 3,000m then gradually reduce to non-volumised (0%) at 6,000m? What happens to clouds at 0m -> 3,000m - are they 100% volumised anyway?

 

Thanks!

 

Adam.

[KNOSSOS 122]

What happens to clouds at 0m -> 3,000m - are they 100% volumised anyway?

I think yes.

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from 0 to blendDistance. I'm not sure about 6000. Because in code

float facingBlend = saturate(((blendDistance - cloudDistance) / blendDistance) * IsPuffDraw);

rotationMatrix[2] = normalize(lerp(cameraFacingVector, screenFacingVector, facingBlend));

when cloudDistance become larger then blendDistance, facingBlend become zero -> rotationMatrix[2] become normalized cameraFacingVector.

Probably in something I could be wrong

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Additional info here: http://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=109548

http://www.avsim.com/topic/458860-is-this-how-rex4-asn-clouds-should-look-like-in-p3d/page-3#entry3148499

[JWxTreme 1]

I'm new to AVSIM and Prepar3D having recently installed it for the first time.  I have never used RSP or any shader edits before, however I keep getting these errors when I try PTA.  Odd, because I NEVER used any shader edits or tweaks before. I tried a re-setup of P3D to repair but I still had these errors,  I'm using Windows 10 and P3D V3.3, and using PTA ver. 1.2. I don't know what else I can do other than a whole reinstall of P3D but then I would have to reinstall all my other software, ie. Orbx, REX, Meshes, etc which would be a lot of time and effort.

 

ERROR: shader file C:\Program Files (x86)\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3\ShadersHLSL\Cloud.fx is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be used.
ERROR: shader file C:\Program Files (x86)\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3\ShadersHLSL\GPUTerrain.fx is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be used.
ERROR: shader file C:\Program Files (x86)\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3\ShadersHLSL\GPUTerrain.fxh is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be used.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

I'm new to AVSIM and Prepar3D having recently installed it for the first time.  I have never used RSP or any shader edits before, however I keep getting these errors when I try PTA.  Odd, because I NEVER used any shader edits or tweaks before. I tried a re-setup of P3D to repair but I still had these errors,  I'm using Windows 10 and P3D V3.3, and using PTA ver. 1.2. I don't know what else I can do other than a whole reinstall of P3D but then I would have to reinstall all my other software, ie. Orbx, REX, Meshes, etc which would be a lot of time and effort.

 

ERROR: shader file C:\Program Files (x86)\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3\ShadersHLSL\Cloud.fx is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be used.

ERROR: shader file C:\Program Files (x86)\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3\ShadersHLSL\GPUTerrain.fx is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be used.

ERROR: shader file C:\Program Files (x86)\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3\ShadersHLSL\GPUTerrain.fxh is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be used.

 

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