PTA for P3D v4.1 - Release Schedule & New Features

[MattS 45]

We appreciate your hard work!

[earthdog 842]

Leaving office in a couple of hours...By what Matt says maybe i have to start develop "fever" for my wife :)

[ab2014 0]

On 10/9/2017 at 5:34 PM, MattDavies said:

Hi all,

With P3D v4.1 releasing tomorrow, naturally there will be a new version of PTA to support this.

At the same time, we're also rolling out some new features (these will be backwards compatible to version 4.0).

• - No popcorn tweak has been completely rewritten. The old algorithm which worked in v3 doesn't render correctly in v4 resulting in grey clouds within a close proximity to your viewpoint
• - Alternate tone map tweak has been improved - this basically stops clouds from being too bright when you have bloom set using HDR
• - Separate lighting adjustments for aircraft externally and internally - now you can adjust the lights for the VC separately to the external model
• - Added an adjustable parameter to reduce cloud brightness at varying stages of the 24hr day cycle (dawn/day/dusk/night)
• - Added a new tweak which allows separate adjustment of HDR bloom during the 24hr day cycle (dawn/day/dusk/night)

This will be available over the next few days hopefully - keep your eyes peeled for when it's released.

If you have any questions, you can reply to this topic.

 

Cheers,

Matt.

Hi, Matt Hope you are doing good. I freshly installed V4.1 & then I couldn't able to use PTA. You made nice videos for us,  but you didn't say about PTA not compatible with new P3v4.1. Anyway.....hope you will give us PTA for V4.1 very soon.... 

[GSalden 4,656]

4 minutes ago, ab2014 said:

Hi, Matt Hope you are doing good. I freshly installed V4.1 & then I couldn't able to use PTA. You made nice videos for us,  but you didn't say about PTA not compatible with new P3v4.1. Anyway.....hope you will give us PTA for V4.1 very soon.... 

Each new update of P3Dv4 requires developers to make adjustments.

You surely know that...

[BMaurice 0]

Bonjour Matt,

Dans la version 2.5, vous avez eu la bonne idée de mettre à disposition un fichier de configuration créé par vous même. J'ai pu très rapidement créer mes propre fichiers à partir du vôtre. Ferez-vous de même dans la prochaine version ? C'est vraiment très utile pour bien comprendre et surtout ce que l'on ajuste.                                                                                            C'est une super application.

Excusez moi de m'exprimer en français.mon anglais est très très mauvais et je veux pas amuser la communauté avec les traducteurs automatiques  !!! :))

Cordialement.

[Wothan 173]

Wow - only 1½ days since V4.1 was released and people expect immidiate fixes from devs who did not have the new version sooner than the rest of us....

Give them some time to catch up and ensure that their new addon versions actually work as intended, otherwise the same people will show up here again and ask why the release was rushed !!

[Mitritch 1]

25 minutes ago, Wothan said:

Wow - only 1½ days since V4.1 was released and people expect immidiate fixes from devs who did not have the new version sooner than the rest of us....

Give them some time to catch up and ensure that their new addon versions actually work as intended, otherwise the same people will show up here again and ask why the release was rushed !!

It's just an indication of how big of an impact this small tool has.

I, personally, eagerly await its release too, trying not to write about it in this forum. :)

[Adamski_NZ 952]

Just to keep us amused while we [patiently] wait ...

Is it just me, or has the lighting in P3Dv4.1 gone really weird? I had to ramp up the brightness a *lot* and also add a fair bit of saturation. Even with bloom set to zero, there's massive bleaching at certain angles (which I'm sure we didn't have before). Despite ramping up the HDR settings, the whole sim looks drab and lifeless. With HDR turned off, it's truly awful.

Or have I just got so used to my PTA-tweaked sim?

Adam.

[Mejjo 33]

31 minutes ago, Adamski_NZ said:

Just to keep us amused while we [patiently] wait ...

Is it just me, or has the lighting in P3Dv4.1 gone really weird? I had to ramp up the brightness a *lot* and also add a fair bit of saturation. Even with bloom set to zero, there's massive bleaching at certain angles (which I'm sure we didn't have before). Despite ramping up the HDR settings, the whole sim looks drab and lifeless. With HDR turned off, it's truly awful.

Or have I just got so used to my PTA-tweaked sim?

Adam.

I thought the exact same thing when i installed 4.1. Obviously my PTA profile wasn't working and the lighting looked horrible. I think you're right in saying that we got so used to our PTA. Super excited to get PTA back working in 4.1. Matt has done an excellent job.

[Terblanche 28]

1 hour ago, Adamski_NZ said:

Or have I just got so used to my PTA-tweaked sim?

I've noticed it too, but then I made a backup of 4.1 ShadersHLSL folder and copied my previous original backup from v4 into it and it was back to 'normal' - I think with the update there was still some residue left from PTA settings before the update to v4.1 ... especially if you only updated clients, scenery, and content and not a full install.

[Chrisgs 3]

Good idea will backup all my shader files now, just in case, may be useful some day.  Ref lighting seemed brighter here too, but guess that's without my preset from PTA.

[EasyE 7]

After sticking with P3D v2.5 since the beginning, I have finally purchased and updated my P3D install to v4.1 as of yesterday along with a subsequent pitcher of PTA. 

I'm assuming that for those of us who purchased PTA from 3rd party vendors, the new version will be released to them as soon as it's ready? 

Thanks in advance.

[MattS 45]

2 hours ago, Adamski_NZ said:

Just to keep us amused while we [patiently] wait ...

Adam, when can we expect version 25_05 ?

[MattDavies 320]

Ok, internal tests completed and this version of PTA is giving me incredible results - the new tweaks really lift P3D to new heights (no pun intended).

I have to sleep now (it's midnight here). Tomorrow morning I have to take my car to the garage to be serviced, then once I return I'll release the update.

So, in short, 12 hours from now and it'll be ready.

See you tomorrow!

[TechAttax 0]

5 minutes ago, MattDavies said:

Ok, internal tests completed and this version of PTA is giving me incredible results - the new tweaks really lift P3D to new heights (no pun intended).

I have to sleep now (it's midnight here). Tomorrow morning I have to take my car to the garage to be serviced, then once I return I'll release the update.

So, in short, 12 hours from now and it'll be ready.

See you tomorrow!

Thanks so much Matt, can not wait, v4.1 is so bland without PTA.