May 9, 20188 yr This has been driving me nuts. Almost always my clouds are very dark, a blue-ish grey color. Time of day will change them one way or another but only slightly. I'm a little embarrassed to say I'm not sure if they are default textures or not?? How can I get them more white? Top is the sim obviously and the bottom, more or less what I've seen when flying for real. There are parts that are dark from the shadows - the bottoms of the clouds, and middle portions in shadow, but overall they should be so much whiter with such sparse cloud coverage. Can anyone offer some suggestions? Is this a texture thing? I also refuse to fly with HDR - can't stand what it does. darkclouds by ryan b, on Flickr reallifeclouds by ryan b, on Flickr | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
May 9, 20188 yr To me, that looks like your shaders are messed up or something because even my default clouds are nowhere near that dark. Try deleting your shader files and letting the sim rebuild them. Are you running PTA? There are settings in there that will brighten the clouds. Also, are you using default sky/cloud textures? I know kiwi_biplane from here has created custom sky textures that brighten up the sim including clouds. ASCA and REX should also have clouds that are brighter. P3D v4, REX SF3D, AS16, ENVTex, PTA 2.60, FSDT KDFW, KLAS, KLAX, KORD, KJFK, KSFD, KIAH, KMEM, KCLT FlightBeam KDEN, KIAD, KPHX, KSFO, KMSP ASUS Z97 Pro + Wifi, Intel i7 4990k 4.0GHz, EVGA NVidia 970 4GB DDR5, Corsair 16GB DDR3 2400, Samsung SSD 850 250GB, 2x Acer 32" Monitor
May 9, 20188 yr You need PTA for that. Take a look at my vids in my signature to see how it can look with PTA. 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
May 9, 20188 yr Also HDR Settings can change the brightness of clouds quiet dramatically. Start off with some recommendations for the three HDR sliders and then adjust to your needs. Greetings, Chris AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 2x32GB DDR5 6000MT/s RAM, MSI RTX 4090 Ventus 3X, Windows 11 Home, MSFS2024
May 9, 20188 yr 6 hours ago, ryanbatcund said: ...Almost always my clouds are very dark, a blue-ish grey color... This is very similar to the use of custom sky textures, which determine the value of color and brightness for the clouds. This situation is possible if only textures are used, and the PTA preset is not used or is not recommended. Usually the use of PTA also implies the inclusion of HDR with the appropriate parameters. If you do not use PTA and do not turn on HDR, then to return the correct color to the clouds, you need to set the sky textures (not clouds!) with another encoding of cloud lighting. For example, to return the sky textures by default. Regards Edited May 9, 20188 yr by kiwi_biplane Gennadiy
May 9, 20188 yr I use even EVNTEX and EVNSHADE and mine are white, even the default clouds. Raymond Fry.
May 9, 20188 yr Author You're saying sky colors influence the cloud colors? Actually I think I am using eddieskypack or something like that | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
May 10, 20188 yr The sky texture used in the sim has a row of color on top that controls the shading of the cloud. Try revert to original sky texture and try again. For me, to spend extra $ buying external utility just to make the clouds look 'white' is just unacceptable.
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