Prepar3D Tweak Assistant (PTA)

[flatis 6]

That's nothing! The last couple of air shows I went to with a simming friend, we found oursleves looking at the [real] clouds and saying "No ... not very realistic - a bit 'blobby'!" I even found a repeating texture (it was a Cirrus formation)!!! I think I need to get out more :wink: .

:smile: It is funny. But it's true

[kiwi_biplane 635]

That`s is how my new day textures look with Adam`s preset "adam_pta20_06".

You can download them here https://www.dropbox.com/s/h4yxu13s9rs3coo/Day_blue-grey_haze.zip?dl=0

   

[Adamski_NZ 952]

Gulp!!!!! *Awesome*!!!! I'm going to have to try those textures!!!

[Wanthuyr Filho 83]

Hi, 

 

Is it possible to make clouds shadow darker then 0.5 ?  

it seems version 2 has a minimum of 0.5 

 

Thank you

 

Matter of fact I noticed that with version 2 my cloud shadows are not as dark, and it's 0.5 yet.

[Adamski_NZ 952]

Matter of fact I noticed that with version 2 my cloud shadows are not as dark, and it's 0.5 yet.

 

I wonder whether thats true!? I'm not disagreeing - I thought something similar but thought I was imagining things!

 

I find 0.52 to be plenty dark enough for me. Go any darker (IMHO) and you risk a very muddy landscape in cloudy conditions - as you've effectively covered the majority of the terrain with shadow (!).

 

Increasing overall contrast can help deepen things up a bit, if that's the way you want to go.

[Adamski_NZ 952]

I think cloud shadows are OK after all! Here's one taken at mid-day (so no shadowing from the terrain) with 0.51 as the shadow value:

 

 

If anything, I'd say that's a tiny fraction too dark for my liking! I may just take it back towards my 20_06 value (0.63) ... maybe 0.55.

[Adamski_NZ 952]

Another year, another preset!!! Here comes my preset 20_07:

 

 

A little more subtle:

 

Some experimental night lighting:

 

The preset can be downloaded from my PTA page: http://www.nzfsim.org/index.php?dsp=PTA
 

[dimkzr 4]

Does anyone have any ideas why I'm experiencing brightness mismatch between "world" textures and any custom airport scenery? The airport is virtually untouched by PTA tweaks:

 

[Adamski_NZ 952]

I'd guess that the airport base texture is photo-real - and maybe hasn't the full set of seasons. Try a different season and see if anything changes. What airport is it? I'll take a look.

 

Adam.

[RichieFly 729]

I'm late to the party, but wanted to thank the author for this great tool.

 

I've been really enjoying the ride.

[simmerhead 885]

Does anyone have any ideas why I'm experiencing brightness mismatch between "world" textures and any custom airport scenery? The airport is virtually untouched by PTA tweaks:

 

Probably because you have tweaked landclass brightness and saturation. Photoscenery won't be affected by this.

[jack-daniels 0]

I need help, think I´ve done something wrong here with the original shader files:

 

I´ve just created a new PTA 2.0 profile, wanted to apply the preset, but:

 

ERROR applying preset: source file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\Cloud.fx is not original Prepar3D shader
ERROR applying preset: source file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\General.fx is not original Prepar3D shader
ERROR applying preset: source file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\GPUTerrain.fx is not original Prepar3D shader
ERROR applying preset: source file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\FuncLibrary.fxh is not original Prepar3D shader
ERROR applying preset: source file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\GPUTerrain.fxh is not original Prepar3D shader
ERROR applying preset: source file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\PostProcess\HDR.hlsl is not original Prepar3D shader
ERROR applying preset: source file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\PostProcess\FXAAResolve.hlsl is not original Prepar3D shader
 

I thought I did backup those files, but when I hit "restore original P3D shaders":

 

ERROR: backup of shader file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\Cloud.fx is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be restored
ERROR: backup of shader file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\General.fx is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be restored
ERROR: backup of shader file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\GPUTerrain.fx is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be restored
ERROR: backup of shader file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\FuncLibrary.fxh is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be restored
ERROR: backup of shader file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\GPUTerrain.fxh is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be restored
ERROR: backup of shader file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\PostProcess\HDR.hlsl is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be restored
ERROR: backup of shader file C:\Users\Flusi\Downloads\PTA2.0\SHADERS_BACKUP\PostProcess\FXAAResolve.hlsl is not original Prepar3D shader and can't be restored

 

What shall I do now?

[KNOSSOS 122]

 

 

What shall I do now?

It looks like a bug in PTA 2.0. 

Have you update PTA to latest 2.01 (bug fixed) ?

[dimkzr 4]

Adamski_NZ, that's Justsim LEBL Barcelona 1.2, but I'm experiencing same issues with almost every custom scenery I have, except Justsim LOWI Innsbruck - possibly because this scenery includes not just an airport, but a whole city.

 

simmerhead, by "landclass brightness and saturation" you mean "terrain lightning" (PTA 2.0) or "terrain ambient/diffuse sunlight" (PTA 1.6)? Then yes, I've tweaked these. Is there a way one can achieve similar results without touching these sliders, maybe with some post-processing settings?

[jack-daniels 0]

It looks like a bug in PTA 2.0. 

Have you update PTA to latest 2.01 (bug fixed) ?

 

Thank you very much Knossos, that was the trick! I wasn´t aware of the new update.