PTA importer for v4

[hjsmuc 393]

Just saw this:

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/6f3mum/ptaimporter_for_prepar3d_v4/

 

 

[1st fltsimguy 466]

What does PTA mean? And what is the purpose of this utility please?

[sultanofswing 57]

8 minutes ago, 1st fltsimguy said:

What does PTA mean? And what is the purpose of this utility please?

Prepar3D Tweak Assistant.  It basically gives you control over a bunch of Lighting parameters in P3D amongst other things,  can really make the sim look a lot better.

[edpatino 1,959]

17 minutes ago, 1st fltsimguy said:

What does PTA mean? And what is the purpose of this utility please?

Look here, this is being around for a while. Completely enhances your P3D experience (graphics, shadows):

http://1coder.ru/PTA/

It's not compatible (and will not be) with P3Dv4, that's why the OP came around.

Cheers, Ed

 

 

[1st fltsimguy 466]

I was pretty sure it did not mean Parent Teacher Advisory...but otherwise I had no idea.

Thanks for posting and advising me, I had no idea...this community is outstanding how it informs folks.

[1st fltsimguy 466]

1 minute ago, edpatino said:

Look here, this is being around for a while. Completely enhances your P3D experience (graphics, shadows):

http://1coder.ru/PTA/

It's not compatible (and will not be) with P3Dv4, that's why the OP came around.

Cheers, Ed

 

 

I only got into P3D V3 last year in April. I have a nice setup and everything is working great so not worried about tweaking. But I will take a look into this now, thanks.

[edpatino 1,959]

1 minute ago, 1st fltsimguy said:

I only got into P3D V3 last year in April. I have a nice setup and everything is working great so not worried about tweaking. But I will take a look into this now, thanks.

This is that good, that I couldn't fly my P3Dv3.4 without!.

Cheers, Ed

[edpatino 1,959]

1 hour ago, hjsmuc said:

Just saw this:

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/6f3mum/ptaimporter_for_prepar3d_v4/

 

 

Thanks for posting. Interesting. I would proceed with caution, anyway.

Cheers, Ed

 

[1st fltsimguy 466]

I meant a year ago April, sorry.

However, just had a quick look, holly molly, this looks interesting.

[RudiJG1 172]

It seems to work fine and does enhance the default P3Dv4 environment. I need to experiment more with it, but I'm initially pleased with the results. I've imported Adam's 21_11 preset....looks terrific, but you'll have to adjust the HDR brightness in P3Dv4 to a value higher than Adam recommends for his P3Dv3 preset.

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

Tried Knossos' dynamic preset  (minus the tweaks not yet implemented in the V4 converter) and it seems to work quite nicely. One thing I want to emphasize that the developer stated. Even though the utility backs up your P3d V4 Shader source folder, make a separate backup of it and put it in a safe location  just to be safe.

[dal330200 216]

Hope to see some screenshots soon:-)  This is awesome news, I'm downloading this right now.

Yippie!

[captain420 3,099]

Is this like a reshade tweak for P3D? Yes, some screenshots of this PTA would be great. I heard of this before but never actually tried it.

[jimcarrel 688]

Here is the forum https://www.avsim.com/forums/forum/764-p3d-tweak-assistant-pta-and-realismshaderpack/