9 minutes ago, WebMaximus said:

Got it but glad I'm not a P3D add-on developer having to worry about these kind of stuff all the time.

Tell me about it!!!

33 minutes ago, twojastara said:

No, in PTAbsolute package you have ini files only (PTA presets). No shaders included.

That was true for the PTA download, but was it also true for the standalone download...? A standalone version is worthless if it only contains ini's: it needs all the modified files too to work.

7 minutes ago, J van E said:

That was true for the PTA download, but was it also true for the standalone download...? A standalone version is worthless if it only contains ini's: it needs all the modified files too to work.

If you by standalone download mean the payware version of PTA that comes with 3 files - the main executable, a preferences file and a preset file.

Hello guys,

Just a quick update for you all.
The fact that PTAbsolute standalone is not in the website anymore is simply because the last version was not compatible with P3D v4.1 and was not supposed to be updated because of the upcoming Envshade release.

PTAsbolute and URP were both done by the same community member and PTAbsolute was distributed by TOGA projects, nothing more than that, it was an agreement between him and us to distribute it only from our website. The guy made a mistake by including Lockheed shaders and we didn't realize this, however I'm sure this is an honest mistake from him and he probably didn't think about it because yes sometimes it's hard to think about everything when you develop something. This will not be reproduced in Envshade as this was developped internally by our team.

Also, Envshade is not a PTA preset, we've done everything manually from scratch and that's how things were solved yesterday when the other developer realized we didn't make anything wrong. I regret how the things turned out yesterday but I was trying to solve this for days and am really tired of this story not to say disgusted, informing everyone was necessary. Now I'm glad everything is solved with the other developer, I already forgot all of this story and I wish all the best to PTA and all of his other projects. We need all of the people involved in development in our community, not fighters. Envshade will be released as it was supposed to be and we don't brake any EULA.

As it was said several times by users as well as us, Envshade is aimed for any users who don't want to customize anything and just enjoy, if you love tweaking and adjusting things by yourselves, then PTA is for you. Both have a whole different philosophy, it's for you to decide which one your prefer, and you are also free to use both depending on the day if you want to.

Hope this finally clears things up.

18 minutes ago, kmax59 said:

Hello guys,

Just a quick update for you all.

Hope this finally clears things up.

Thanks for the update.  Glad all is resolved.

Another brilliant post Maxime and like Erich says, great everything is now resolved!

You're not only developing good products but your transparency, honesty as well as your overall communication skills are all things quite a number of other developers could learn a great deal from.

I wish you all success with the upcoming ENVSHADE!!

Well 2 thumbs up for both devs! I aready have PTA when will Envshade be out? 

3 hours ago, WebMaximus said:

If you by standalone download mean the payware version of PTA that comes with 3 files - the main executable, a preferences file and a preset file.

No, I meant the standalone version of PTAbsolute, which indeed, as Maxime posted after your, contained illegal files, but...

 

3 hours ago, kmax59 said:

Hope this finally clears things up.

...everything is indeed clear now so let's leave it all behind us.

I was quite happy with the PTAbsolute preset, it was the best of them all imho, so I am curious to see what ENVSHADE does to the sim (although at this moment I am quite happy with Matt's own PTA preset that comes with the addon). I also don't like to fiddle with settings and so I do regret getting the far more expensive PTA: I think ENVSHADE is more to my liking, but well... sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

8 minutes ago, J van E said:

No, I meant the standalone version of PTAbsolute, which indeed, as Maxime posted after your, contained illegal files, but...

Yep, realized this later on.

Well...will be very interesting to see what ENVSHADE will be like and was kind of hoping we might have had a nice surprise right in time for the weekend...do you hear me Maxime and SimMarket...

36 minutes ago, J van E said:

although at this moment I am quite happy with Matt's own PTA preset that comes with the addon

That's the one I use, I did tweak it a few time but reverted back to "out of the Box" Really happy with it.