Xplane 11.5B3

[N1125Y 22]

On 4/10/2020 at 6:48 AM, Sesquashtoo said:

Second flight...B3 fixed every problem I had with B1 and B2.   In fact, it is as stable right now, as .41 and that is with all my 'junk'....

Here is a taxi and take-off, climb through dense clouds...and I stay in FPS, at 29/30 .  I always fluctuated in heavy cloud transitions...but with B3 Vulcan...nada!

Also, no loss of ground clarity and texture focus.....so...what the heck was with B1?!?!?!?

Enjoy...

 

Looks spectecular ...can you post your Rig spec, please ??? 

[skipph 82]

19 hours ago, Old_As_Dirt said:

On the Developer web site, there is a program offered by X-Plane called Data Ref Editor.  Once installed as a plugin, you can adjust many parts of the graphics and one line, when you display the "Art" section, is Fog_Be_Gone.  Here you can adjust the fog which is by default 1.00000.  I keep mine on 0.10000 or 0.20000.  Seems much more realistic to me.  You can also set it for 0.00000 (Think Microsoft here), which eliminates all the fog.  With 11.50 B, I find that the default clouds are much more tolerable when you take the "clouds_shadow" down a lot.  You don't see the flickering shadows which are, in my opinion, distracting.  You can set these to automatically activate on startup with these settings with a FlyWithLua script.

John

Did you make a LUA script for the fog be gone and if so would you share it? I am inept at this Lua stuff and therefore go into Data Refs every flight  to change that number. Skip

[mSparks 2,086]

1 hour ago, skipph said:

Did you make a LUA script for the fog be gone and if so would you share it? I am inept at this Lua stuff and therefore go into Data Refs every flight  to change that number. Skip

I can give you a much easier way if backing up and modifying a file that says

################################################################################
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#					S T O P ! ! !
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#	This is X-Plane 11’s settings file.  This is NOT your preferences.  You
#	should not edit this file, delete it, or modify it in any way or X-Plane
#	may stop working.  If you do accidentally touch this file, simply re-run
#	the updater to get a new clean file.  Your preferences are in 
#	Output/preferences.
#
#	This file contains low level tuning for X-Plane's rendering engine; it
#	is set up by Laminar Research before X-Plane ships.  Please close this
#	file now!!
#
#
#
#
#
#	Still here?  You're a hacker?  The documentation that follows is for
#	the use of LR's internal dev team.  You're welcome to poke at this file
#	in the privacy of your own home, and if you find a tweak you like, you
#	can email LR.  But please:
#
#	- DO NOT make an add-on that requires this file to be modified.  The
#	  format is completely unstable and subject to change without notice.
#	- DO NOT contact tech support or LR if you change this file and bad
#	  things happen*.  If you tweak this, you're on your own.
#
#	* Bad things include: X-Plane crashing, X-Plane hanging, X-Plane failing
#	  to start, rendering artifacts, your whole computer hanging, your
#	  computer catching fire, and highly trained monkeys stealing all of
#	  your underwear.
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#	You have been warned.
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Is something you can manage.

default datarefs are set from Resources/settings.txt

 

[olderndirt 2,295]

1 hour ago, skipph said:

Did you make a LUA script for the fog be gone and if so would you share it? I am inept at this Lua stuff and therefore go into Data Refs every flight  to change that number. Skip

fog_be_gone.lua              set("sim/private/controls/fog/fog_be_gone", 0.01)

[Stratocaster 40]

On 4/14/2020 at 7:02 AM, Janov said:

Which strikes me as odd, since Laminar Research stated repeated that 11.50 will look EXACTLY like 11.41 🙂

And maybe it does, as up till now I've always applied xVision before running any new version, so I have not seen a default XP for some time. 11.50 absolutey does not have that brown/yellow taint XP was known for, and no one could call realistic. Something has changed somewhere down the line, which is welcome, as we can't tweak shaders now.  I would like the ability to lower the haze further than you can, but it's been the same for years, so I see no hope, other than using data refs, or other mods. For the most part I like a fair bit of haze, so it not a major thing.

[skipph 82]

5 hours ago, olderndirt said:

fog_be_gone.lua              set("sim/private/controls/fog/fog_be_gone", 0.01)

Thank you very much. Skip

[olderndirt 2,295]

Here's what I get with my 100 vsby and 'fog_be_gone'.  Orbx TE WA - High Noon - default Cirrus.  Mt Baker, 120 miles distant is barely visible left of center.

 

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,317]

25 minutes ago, olderndirt said:

Here's what I get with my 100 vsby and 'fog_be_gone'.  Orbx TE WA - High Noon - default Cirrus.  Mt Baker, 120 miles distant is barely visible left of center.

 

Does fogbgone reduce the FPS? 

[olderndirt 2,295]

6 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Does fogbgone reduce the FPS? 

I don't think so, mine are locked at 30 so I never look at it.  Give it a whirl and find out.

Edited April 15, 2020 by olderndirt