MaxxFX settings

[Guest Mik75]

Hi there! 

For those of you, who want to give this great tool for XP11 a try, here are my settings. I tried to achieve a ceratin look, which works during day and night, and most wx situations, maybe you like it. ;-) I´m not using any post processing (Sweet FX, etc.), and all of my shots are completely unedited. When I use xEnviro, I don´t change the art controls additionally (xE changes a lot of art controls, according to the wx and time of day situation, including the ones I usually tweak manually). When I use stock weather, I change some of these figures, using the DataRef Editor. So here are a few shots with xEnviro (1.07), and a few others witout xEnviro (with stock wx and clouds, and tweaked art controls).

First of all, here are my MaxxFX settings (small adjustments go a long way!):

On the non xE pics, I tweak the following art controls: atmo_scale_raleigh: 23-26 (depending on mood, time of day...), inscatter_gain_mie: 5-8, inscatter_gain_raleigh: 7-9, scatter_raleigh_b(lue): 30-35, clouds_ambient_gain: 1.000000

non xE:

 

with xE: 

 

[JLuis]

Thanks a lot to share. 

[Guest Mik75]

6 minutes ago, JLuis said:

Thanks a lot to share. 

You‘re very welcome! :-)

[hjsmuc]

Thanks for sharing. You seem to have found a very sweet spot of settings. 

[Guest Mik75]

1 hour ago, hjsmuc said:

Thanks for sharing. You seem to have found a very sweet spot of settings. 

You’re welcome! ;-) Nothing special here, just something I personally like! I am always in the process of tweaking these settings and figures, you know? :-) MaxxFX is a really powerful and handy tool! 

[jt8d9a]

Michael, because of you i did buy MaxxFX :) Really cool. Many thanks for sharing your settings!

[Guest Mik75]

3 hours ago, jt8d9a said:

Michael, because of you i did buy MaxxFX :) Really cool. Many thanks for sharing your settings!

Cool! You’ll love it! Looking forward to seeing your results! :-)

[AlRayes_BRN]

Mike,

Thank you so much for sharing this preset, its much much appreciated. Its really hard to find  good MaxxFX presets on the web and you just solved this issue for me.

Is it possible to share the preset file? You'll find it in X-Plane 11/Resources/plugins/MaxxFX/UserEffects

Itll be much better since fiddling with the sliders to match the screenshot of your settings is a bit tricky.

Thank you again man!

[Guest Mik75]

You´re very welcome! I´ll see what I can do about the file! ;-)

[AlRayes_BRN]

Thank you! Will be waiting

[Brian Mackie]

Curious... the XEnviro user manual states that XE is incompatible with MaxxFX and having reinstalled it to test with XEnviro, I get a complete XP crash. How did you manage to get them working together?

[Guest Mik75]

33 minutes ago, Brian Mackie said:

Curious... the XEnviro user manual states that XE is incompatible with MaxxFX and having reinstalled it to test with XEnviro, I get a complete XP crash. How did you manage to get them working together?

Really? I’ve never had any problems with using them together in countless XP10 flights, and now in XP11. I’ve never read the xE manual, I have to confess... ;-)

[Murmur]

2 minutes ago, Mik75 said:

Really? I’ve never had any problems with using them together in countless XP10 flights, and now in XP11. I’ve never read the xE manual, I have to confess... ;-)

Reminds me the dialogue in "Airport" the movie:

"The instruction book said that was impossible."

"That's one nice thing about the 707. It can do everything BUT read."

[Guest Mik75]

10 minutes ago, Murmur said:

Reminds me the dialogue in "Airport" the movie:

"The instruction book said that was impossible."

"That's one nice thing about the 707. It can do everything BUT read."

Good lord! George Kennedy as Joe Patroni! I loved this movie as a kid, I’ve watched it countless times. ;-) 

[Brian Mackie]

Quick update - the crashing was caused by my incorrect install of MaxxFX. It's running fine right now with XEnviro (note to self: never read manuals unless as a last resort). I too would appreciate that UserEffects file. The sliders are much too fiddly to accurately replicate what Mik75 has done.