Realistic Sky Textures - recommendations

[VHOJT 172]

Hello all,

I was hoping to gather some ideas on where I could find some realistic-looking sky textures for P3D.

I don't really like the default P3D ones - they have a strange glow at night, and I have ASCA, and I really don't like their sky textures much - usually they have a greenish/greyish/purpleish sort of tinge to them, unless there's a combination I haven't seen or tried.

At the moment, I am usign the ones that came with Ultimate Realism Pack v1.1 - which are good - but have quite a hazy look in the horizon.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Rudy 🙂

[Sethos 4,335]

Obviously an expensive solution if you're just looking for sky textures but Sky Force 3D's 10-day set is excellent, plus you get the variety.

[Rasterfahnder 75]

My favourite is still ENVTEX from TOGA.

[Afterburner 374]

ENVTEX has the most realistic sky textures in my opinion as well.

[krazyk 157]

Natural Sky Project (available on Facebook if you search for 'Visuals by Pascal' page).
I'm currently using the 'Natural Sky Project' alongside his TomatoShade preset and I'm very happy with the visuals in P3D.

There was another set by Navid Hashemi (Navid's Sky) which produced some of the best skies back in P3Dv3 days but I just checked the URL and it seems to have been abandoned/taken over.

 

[DChockey08 299]

You can use ENVTEX with ASCA and disable the ASCA default textures.

ENVTEX has, IMO, the best looking sky textures currently available, and the ability to have them dynamically changed based on weather with ASCA is the best of both worlds.

[CFIJose 5,485]

My fav freeware sky textures are "KIWI" sky textures. The site is down, but you can download from the link above.

My fav payware is SkyForce 3D due to the fact that you also get the best clouds and structures + it works great with ASP4

[CFIJose 5,485]

Just now, DChockey08 said:

You can use ENVTEX with ASCA and disable the ASCA default textures.

ENVTEX has, IMO, the best looking sky textures currently available, and the ability to have them dynamically changed based on weather with ASCA is the best of both worlds.

Yeah, but the clouds and structures look awful.

[DChockey08 299]

1 minute ago, DJJose said:

Yeah, but the clouds and structures look awful.

You can disable them in ASCA and use SkyForce for the clouds.

 

[Driver170 42]

Skyforce 3D

[mpw8679 428]

Envtex has the best sky textures IMO.  But sky force are very good as well

[VHOJT 172]

Thanks chaps!  Sorry for the late reply.  You have given me lots of options to go and look at and possibly try out.  Thanks very much again.  I'll post back and let you know 🙂

[GSalden 4,656]

For summer I use AURP 1.1. Second place is EnvTex.

Clouds : 256 ASCA Silk

My PTA V4.5 June preset

Edited June 3, 2019 by GSalden

[Nickbe 401]

On 5/27/2019 at 4:55 PM, DJJose said:

My fav freeware sky textures are "KIWI" sky textures. The site is down, but you can download from the link above.

The last set from KIWI is very good for summer. There's a download link.

https://www.avsim.su/forum/topic/145413-делаем-красиво-v4/?page=115&tab=comments#comment-3743209

Direct link to the sky set:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/meqlasgzij5q4nc/Set_GREEN.zip?dl=0

All sets from KIWI: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jti90klfs3phrhv/AAA_Q-bq2LFAWjZe7rGFnWRga?dl=0

 

Edited June 3, 2019 by Nickbe

[Nyxx 6,993]

SkyForce, soft and natural looking IMO, but this topic is a bit like asking what's your favourite car colour.

 

 

Edited June 3, 2019 by Nyxx