Coming soon: Ventura Sky for X-Plane 10.50

[Humpty 751]

Looks very nice, but i would like to try it without HDR and SMP.

[Colonel X 1,434]

It works without SMP, but there is no way to have clouds then.

 

Should work without HDR, but you'll be missing out on the scattering improvements (as in vanilla X-Plane). Need to check if it's fully compatible though.

[Humpty 751]

It works without SMP, but there is no way to have clouds then.

 

Should work without HDR, but you'll be missing out on the scattering improvements (as in vanilla X-Plane). Need to check if it's fully compatible though.

 

I can do HDR in places like Tororo as I like flying in thunderstorms. Let me know .

 

And on the other laptop I can run HDR everywhere

[deetee 164]

Looks good, looking forward to trying this out.

Thanks for your efforts FrontEndRob.

[Colonel X 1,434]

This shot demonstrates how 16nm visibility is a good value to let autogen and night lighting blend into the haze (amplified by increased atmospheric scattering),  the scripts "bugfix" for cut-off scenery and lighting in the distance.

 

 

[Murmur 3,944]

This shot demonstrates how 16nm visibility is a good value to let autogen and night lighting blend into the haze (amplified by increased atmospheric scattering),  the scripts "bugfix" for cut-off scenery and lighting in the distance.

 

Very nice, but how does it look 16 nm visibility at 40.000 ft in daytime?

[Colonel X 1,434]

The script smoothly increases visibility above 10000ft. At FL400, visibility is around 100sm. I showcased the increasing visibility with a bunch of shots in a previous post.

[Colonel X 1,434]

In this demanding Autogen scene the 16sm visibility limit helps tackling the CPU load. 

 

 

[Colonel X 1,434]

The lakes around KMCO - an Antialiasing nightmare in the dusk (due to the high contrast of ground and X-Plane's too reflective water). Ventura Sky helps fight the jaggies.

 

 

[strider1 575]

When are you going to release this ?!

 

Cheers...........

[jcomm 5,975]

Keeping better in my brain, from picture to picture :-)

 

Oh, poor life that of an UNINSTALLER :-/.... Will I have to install XP10 again ?

[Colonel X 1,434]

When are you going to release this ?!

 

Cheers...........

 

As long as I don't hear from Joan, owner of the NOAA plug-in, I won't do a public release on the .org, as it's inconvenient for the users to edit the NOAA .py file themselves. I get very good feedback from the testers, but setting this type of setup / install is not really a great solution. It works though if you follow the instructions.

 

I just added some light and water features (screens to come), and then I am writing a better manual. In the coming days, you'll be able to directly get it here in the forum. I really want this to be a hassle free solution in the end, so I think it's ok to keep it in this semi-released state for now.

 

It will however be incompatible to RTH, there's no way around that.

Keeping better in my brain, from picture to picture :-)

 

Oh, poor life that of an UNINSTALLER :-/.... Will I have to install XP10 again ?

 

You motivate me.

[RJC68 823]

Looking forward to trying this also. 

 

I have never been happy with SMP & RWC on their own. I seem to get much smoother results with the tweaked default clouds

[Colonel X 1,434]

I have added an optional setting to prevent the sky to be reflected in water bodies (usually, even the water reflection setting none will still feature the sky reflection). Yes, it kills all reflections - but in return you get moodier dusk flights in areas with a lot of water.

 

 

 

 

 

I adjusted the water color in the Ventura Sky sky color set so daytime settings don't look too shabby either. It's fully optional though and a matter of taste. It does benefit performance and basically eliminates aliasing issues at borders of water colors, at every angle, every time of day.

 

 

[Humpty 751]

Looking good, have pm'ed  you