Some first PBR shots of the VC (82). These uploaded pictures reduce the quality; looks better in the SIm. Frame rate loss...none at all; in fact there is a gain due to the use of the NEW 'in house lighting system'. Not available 'Yet' still in testing, but thought some shots would be good. Bump and Wear mapping still needs to be applied, which will happen going forward.There will be more appearing over the next few days, I'm sure from other team members. P3D V4.4 + Only.Hope you all like

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Edited January 15, 20197 yr by alpha117

Looking very nice!

Love those subtle details in the VC.

PBR is something that is hard to appreciate on static images (but they still look fantastic)

 The big gain comes from watching the materials interact with light sources as you are flying. Love it!

OK, time to upgrade to 4.4 and buythemaddogx!

Those pics really do look excellent!  Looking forward to some of the other high-end aircraft developers making the change to PBR as well.  Great times!

Apologize if this is dumb question but how does one enable PBR textures in the VC?  Do you still need to download the PBR livery or just check the option box for PBR in the config?

Thanks!

 

3 minutes ago, ieydis said:

Apologize if this is dumb question but how does one enable PBR textures in the VC?  Do you still need to download the PBR livery or just check the option box for PBR in the config?

Thanks!

 

That's not a dumb question. SimObjects either have PBR textures built-in or they don't. There is no "enabling". If an aircraft  model is designed with PBR textures, it can only be run in P3d4 with as a minimum, the client and content updated to version 4.4.

4 minutes ago, jabloomf1230 said:

That's not a dumb question. SimObjects either have PBR textures built-in or they don't. There is no "enabling". If an aircraft  model is designed with PBR textures, it can only be run in P3d4 with as a minimum, the client and content updated to version 4.4.

In the MaddogX you still have an option in the LoadManager to enable or disable the PBR textures.

But really, I see no reason to disable those nice looking and almost real textures!.

Cheers, Ed

Edited January 15, 20197 yr by edpatino

1 minute ago, edpatino said:

In the MaddogX you still have an option in the LoadManager to enable or disable the PBR textures.

But really, I see no reason to disable those nice looking and almost real textures!.

Cheers, Ed

That's interesting Ed. I don't have the MaddogX, so how does it do that? Does it substitute identically named non-PBR textures and add new ones (ala what Model Converter X does in aliasing texture files) , or does it utilize two separate base aircraft models, each with its own texture set?

7 minutes ago, jabloomf1230 said:

That's interesting Ed. I don't have the MaddogX, so how does it do that? Does it substitute identically named non-PBR textures and add new ones (ala what Model Converter X does in aliasing texture files) , or does it utilize two separate base aircraft models, each with its own texture set?

That's an interesting question, but that way you can disable both external and internal PBR textures (separatedly I suppose, since the new VC PBR textures are about to be released probably this week, so I cannot tell for sure). Take a look in MaddogX website, but they don't reveal how they do it. What they've said is that the performance impact is minimal, or performance is even better compared to normal textures.

Cheers, Ed

Thanks. Most flyable aircraft have an internal model and an external model to optimize performance in each view. PBR's impact on performance should be pretty small, since both "regular" and PBR modes consist of layering multiple textures. PBR allows more and varied layers, but generally the total number of layers isn't vastly different between the two modes. PBR could use up more VRAM though, depending on how many textures are layered onto the model.

Extremely realistic. Nice to see some developers taking advantage of new technology available in P3D. 

WOW

nuff said

 

JimE

how are the fps boss?

The question I asked was only relevant to the Maddog and what I think I'm hearing is that the VC PBR textures have not been released yet.  Is this correct?