How to get white(er) clouds?

[ryanbatc 12,853]

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

[b757 43]

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.

 

[GSalden 4,656]

You need PTA for that.

Take a look at my vids in my signature to see how it can look with PTA.

 

[AnkH 2,264]

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.

[kiwi_biplane 635]

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, 2018 by kiwi_biplane

[G-RFRY 1,712]

I use even EVNTEX and EVNSHADE and mine are white, even the default clouds.

[ryanbatc 12,853]

You're saying sky colors influence the cloud colors?  Actually I think I am using eddieskypack or something like that

[Oliver Ooi 85]

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.