Prepar3D Tweak Assistant (PTA)

[Adamski_NZ 948]

Thanks, looks stunning now that I have corrected the HDR settings in sim.

 

Fantastic!! Great to hear!!

 

Adam.

[B777ER 2,484]

Adam, good stuff. Using your latest and I like it. I increased the one setting for night illumination of ground texture from 6.20 to 11. With FTX Global texts they are dimmer. At 11 to 13 setting they look more realistic to what I see on transcons here in the US at night.

[Adamski_NZ 948]

Adam, good stuff. Using your latest and I like it. I increased the one setting for night illumination of ground texture from 6.20 to 11. With FTX Global texts they are dimmer. At 11 to 13 setting they look more realistic to what I see on transcons here in the US at night.

 

Thanks for that, Eric - I'll build that into my next version. I don't fly that much at night, so I rather skipped those sections!

Adam.

[spearmint_flyer 579]

Is there a way to lower the brightness of terrain at night with Adams preset. Right now it's as bright as if it were daylight. Great preset btw.

[Adamski_NZ 948]

Is there a way to lower the brightness of terrain at night with Adams preset. Right now it's as bright as if it were daylight. Great preset btw.

 

Eeek! Is it really that bad? I'd better take a quick look!!!! As I said earlier - I did rather skim over the night stuff.

[spearmint_flyer 579]

Yeah. I fixed it by lowering the moonlight ambient and difuse under the Terrain Lighting.

[Adamski_NZ 948]

Yuri - here's a thought - since we're talking about moonlight lighting! ...

 

How easy would it be to add a terrain/autogen *colour+saturation* tweak based on the strength of the moonlight? I'm still seeing a fair bit of colour in the landscape under a full moon. I think we all know how things look on a bright, moonlit night - basically monotone - grey/white/blue.

Version 20_06 of my on-going PTA tweak is avaliable for download from my newly added PTA Page:

 

 

 

 

Basically some small tweaks to my previous 20_04 preset - nothing major. I tried to fix night lighting, but found it a little complicated by settings that may be set by ORBX's FTX Global/Lights Configurator. People may just have to add/edit their own night lighting tweaks.

 

The new PTA page is to make it easier for people to find all current presets of mine - along with any additional information.

 

Adam.

[KNOSSOS 122]

Yuri - here's a thought - since we're talking about moonlight lighting! ...

 

How easy would it be to add a terrain/autogen *colour+saturation* tweak based on the strength of the moonlight? I'm still seeing a fair bit of colour in the landscape under a full moon. I think we all know how things look on a bright, moonlit night - basically monotone - grey/white/blue.

Hi Adam!

Np with terrain: this will completely desaturate terrain at night

 

 

 

 

Not so easy for autogen, but try this custom tweak (just a suggestion):

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

[Raymond van der Ploeg 2]

Hi,

 

Is it correct that when you have updated P3D you also must update PTA?

 

I have update P3D however i get an error in PTA that my original cloud.fx cant be found, does anybody knows a solution? Reinstal P3D?

 

Regards,

Raymond

[KNOSSOS 122]

Hi Raymond.

Try to reinstall only P3D client, not whole P3D

 

regards,

[roi1862 599]

Hi, 

 

Is it possible to make clouds shadow darker then 0.5 ?  

it seems version 2 has a minimum of 0.5 

 

Thank you

[RaptyrOne 1,398]

Hi all,

 

I am going to dive in and give PTA a try. Before I do, what folders and files should I back up as a double security. I know that PTA does this for me but I would like to also do it manually - just to be 100% safe. I am currently running 3.4 with the hot fix applied to the client only. I have never used any shader tweaking tool previously.

[simmerhead 885]

Hi all,

 

I am going to dive in and give PTA a try. Before I do, what folders and files should I back up as a double security. I know that PTA does this for me but I would like to also do it manually - just to be 100% safe. I am currently running 3.4 with the hot fix applied to the client only. I have never used any shader tweaking tool previously.

 

 

When you first run PTA it will make a backup for you. It will show the paths to the files that have been backed up, so just take a screenshot of these to make your own backup.

[Glynn 405]

 

 

I am going to dive in and give PTA a try. Before I do, what folders and files should I back up as a double security.

 

ShadersHLSL from the P3D root directory, with that saved you are all set even though PTA will also do a backup on first run.

[RaptyrOne 1,398]

Great thanks simmerhead and Glynn,

 

Will give it a run now

 

I also downloaded Adams presets 20_04 and 20_06 to help get me started.