Prepar3D Tweak Assistant (PTA)

[spearmint_flyer 579]

Hi Gerard! Forgive me for butting in: My bad, just forgot to put in release notes: Tweak "Clouds shade adjustment" renamed to "Clouds saturation". Fixed. Yes, for shadows depth adjustment, you need "shadows receive" for autogen option in sim activated. But for brightness it is not necessary - just make light a bit lower.The descrpiption of tweak will be fixed in the next release. Yes, the tweak algorothm remains the same. Yes, shader modifications are the same.Thank you for a feedback! I think no. I tested Adam's preset and it has many tweaks activated.Are you using PTA 2.0 to open preset?

Yes I am , and it loads the data but none of the check boxes active when I load it.

 

Hi,

 

Has anyone tried the P3Dv3 PTA shaders preset which, apparently, has been 'optimized' for the recently released ENVTEX?

 

I see one of the many features being offered are a plethora of new sky textures: "More than 500 natural and dynamic* sky textures grouped in seasonal, climatic and situation presets + 60 new sky presets with full and automatic integration for Hifi Active Sky Cloud Art and Active Sky 2016 (fully works with Full dynamics and Global automatic feature)".

 

Knowing how important the choice of Sky textures has proved to be to achieve good results with PTA I'm curious to know what to expect before deciding to take the plunge.

 

Mike

Where can I find that preset?

 

Thanks.

[krazyk 157]

 

 

Where can I find that preset?

 

http://togapjcts.wixsite.com/toga/envtex

Scroll down to the 'Freewares' section.

[Adamski_NZ 952]

Adam i downloaded your presets but i am not sure how to install them in PTA can someone guide me ? 

 

Firstly - make sure you're running the 2.0 beta version of PTA. That preset will *not* work in 1.62.

 

Place the .ini file somewhere convenient (where you can find it easily), then simply go to "Preset/Open" and select my preset.

 

Don't make any edits to start with, but make a note of the P3D HDR settings you'll need to use with that preset. Click on "Actions/Apply Preset" and you're done.

 

As PTA will have deleted your old shaders cache, the picture may take a little while to build for the first time - after that it will be fine. Check your HDR settings in P3D match the recommended values for that preset.

 

Adam.

[lsummer101 1]

Thanks Adam 

[Cruachan 705]

Hi,

 

I posted my concerns regarding ENVTEX in relation to PTA and the provided Preset (see post #551) over on the 'TOGA Project' support forum and Maxime, one of the ENVTEX Developers, was good enough to provide a helpful response. I was given permission to reproduce the relevant sections of the reply here:

 

"As you already saw, Envtex is fully compatible with PTA, as stated in the manual we just have found that the Atmospheric Haze tweak can conflict with our Northern lights but you can use Rayleigh scattering tweak instead. Also you should not use envtex cloud shaders as PTA does more thing on this, we have included that for people who don't want to bother using PTA.

 

My PTA preset (Maxime's preset in the package) is pretty soft in color corrections, I wanted it to be as natural as possible so it fits perfectly Envtex's skies. Of course other presets can be too contrasted or too saturated but this is always a matter of taste and you may have to adjust some settings but unfortunately we couldn't support all existing presets.

 

Whatever happens, we will always make sure that our product is compatible with PTA which is a great program that I would myself miss a lot if good results couldn't be achieved with Envtex."

 

Mike

[Adamski_NZ 952]

Mike - this all sounds very encouraging. Maxime's philosophy with respect to colouring/realism sounds very similar to mine.

 

I'm thinking of buying ENVTEX (as a Christmas present to myself!). How does it compare with REX, AS. FEX etc. do you think? I was going to hold off until REX SkyForce 3D came out, but it seems to have gone quiet.

 

Adam.

[Cruachan 705]

Hi Adam,

 

Like you, I'm hoping Santa will have read my letter by now and will agree to relax his rules somewhat to allow me to skip the queue.....been a good boy lately! Fingers crossed....maybe tomorrow? No, wait...it is tomorrow!! Bed first, must attend to my priorities...LOL!

 

BTW, I'm thoroughly enjoying your latest PTA Preset. Best so far - you really do have the knack. The results are truly outstanding. Thank you

 

Regards,

Mike

[Adamski_NZ 952]

Hahaha, Mike! So ... neither of us have it yet? I was hoping for a mini-review ... drat!!!

 

Thanks for the kind words - glad you're enjoying the tweaks!

 

Adam.

[GSalden 4,657]

Juri, is it possible to saturate the blue sky color without touching clouds and scenery ?

I use photoscenery and have to tone down saturisation.

Then the sky is not blue enough..

 

In my former post about Cloud shades you wrote that it has been renamed to Cloud Saturisation.

But imho shades are different from saturisation.

[KNOSSOS 122]

is it possible to saturate the blue sky color without touching clouds and scenery

11. New tweak "Sky saturation".

[DeCampos 40]

Just tried Maxime's preset (P3Dv3}  for PTA and its absolutely stunning. I'm seriously thinking of getting ENVTEX.

[SpiritFlyer 987]

Thanks for the tip guys!  

 

Just got ENVTEX and it is amazing how many faults it has fixed and providing new options available in fsx/p3d!

 

http://togapjcts.wixsite.com/toga/envtex

 

Good times for this hobby!

 

Kind regards,

[Adamski_NZ 952]

Just got ENVTEX and it is amazing how many faults it has fixed and providing new options available in fsx/p3d!

 

Any chance of a screenshot or two? A before/after would be nice, but I suspect it's too late for that, LOL!

 

Adam.

[Pe11e 812]

Thanks for the tip guys!

 

Just got ENVTEX and it is amazing how many faults it has fixed and providing new options available in fsx/p3d!

 

http://togapjcts.wixsite.com/toga/envtex

 

Good times for this hobby!

 

Kind regards,

 

And they are? Purchased it and didn't saw a single feature that isn't already very well known, except aurora borealis.

[Adamski_NZ 952]

And they are? Purchased it and didn't saw a single feature that isn't already very well known, except aurora borealis.

 

So ... do you mean that Envtex doesn't offer much for existing REX/TextureDirect/FEX users? I find, for instance, that FEX gives me a lot of control over sky/water textures (and time-of-day colouriing) - more than REX, certainly. It sounds to me like I wouldn't be gaining that much <?>.

 

However - if you don't have REX (or similar) then I suppose it'd be a good buy <?>.

 

Adam.