April 17, 20206 yr If you guys find the sun to small : search for the suneffecf.cfg file and change the default moon / sun according to your liking. For my real size home cockpit I use : Moon 1500 ( default 900 ) Sun 6072 ( default 2072 ) I tried all the usual suspect locations...can you point us to it? Is in AppData?
April 17, 20206 yr On my machine, it is in C:\ProgramData\LockheedMartin\Prepar3D v5 The default file shows it is the Moon which is 2072, and the sun 900. Jim BarrettLicensed Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic, Avionics, Electrical & Air Data Systems Specialist. Qualified on: Falcon 900, CRJ-200, Dornier 328-100, Hawker 850XP and 1000, Lear 35, 45, 55 and 60, Gulfstream IV and 550, Embraer 135, Beech Premiere and 400A, MD-80.
April 18, 20206 yr Author 9 hours ago, JRBarrett said: On my machine, it is in C:\ProgramData\LockheedMartin\Prepar3D v5 The default file shows it is the Moon which is 2072, and the sun 900. Thank you, Jim...had to enable HIDDEN FILES to access and see that folder. Have now adjusted both settings values as per Gerard. 🙂 I did find the sun too 'small' and far away looking. I'm about to fire up v5 and see the results of the edit. Thanks for responding.
April 18, 20206 yr 4 hours ago, Sesquashtoo said: Thank you, Jim...had to enable HIDDEN FILES to access and see that folder. Have now adjusted both settings values as per Gerard. 🙂 I did find the sun too 'small' and far away looking. I'm about to fire up v5 and see the results of the edit. Thanks for responding. From an astronomical perspective, the real sun and moon are almost exactly the same size when viewed from earth, which is why the moon can often perfectly eclipse the sun. Of course, the sun is much bigger, but also much farther away. I agree that the default moon looks too big in the sim, and the default sun looks too small. Apparently the sun image is a single file, “sun.bmp”. I’m not sure where the the moon graphics live. There would have to be multiple images to account for all the phases. Unfortunately, the sim can’t duplicate the real world phenomena where either the sun or moon look much bigger when near the horizon when rising or setting. Edited April 18, 20206 yr by JRBarrett Jim BarrettLicensed Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic, Avionics, Electrical & Air Data Systems Specialist. Qualified on: Falcon 900, CRJ-200, Dornier 328-100, Hawker 850XP and 1000, Lear 35, 45, 55 and 60, Gulfstream IV and 550, Embraer 135, Beech Premiere and 400A, MD-80.
April 18, 20206 yr Commercial Member You guys were successful? I tried modifying the Sun size but it only works with Enhanced Atmospherics disabled.. S. Oficial Website: https://www.FSReborn.com Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/XC82TqvKQ3
April 18, 20206 yr Author 9 minutes ago, simbol said: You guys were successful? I tried modifying the Sun size but it only works with Enhanced Atmospherics disabled.. S. The tweak works perfectly...SHOW Hidden FILES, go to C:/Program Data /Lockheed Martin (usually a hidden folder) select suneffect.cfg and (from my tweaking enter next to the SUN the setting of 2100. That will give you a natural sized sun sphere. Also, you can at the time you have the folder open...create a sunefect.cfg shortcut as I did, so you can adjust the sun and moon sizes, after every flight from your Desktop...and then check out your setting. I found my final setting of 2100 to be about as natural a globe size as I'd see, with a brief eye sweep of the day sky. This is only if you do not use Atmos Beta enabled. That turns the sun into a golf ball. Edited April 18, 20206 yr by Sesquashtoo
April 18, 20206 yr 4 minutes ago, simbol said: You guys were successful? I tried modifying the Sun size but it only works with Enhanced Atmospherics disabled.. S. I haven’t been using the enhanced atmospherics on recent flights, because I’m not really impressed by the new True Sky clouds. I really like the way the enhanced atmosphere itself looks in terms of haze and lighting, but the clouds are too bland and poorly defined for my taste. Perhaps a different sun image is being used in enhanced mode, since the lighting is quite different. Jim BarrettLicensed Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic, Avionics, Electrical & Air Data Systems Specialist. Qualified on: Falcon 900, CRJ-200, Dornier 328-100, Hawker 850XP and 1000, Lear 35, 45, 55 and 60, Gulfstream IV and 550, Embraer 135, Beech Premiere and 400A, MD-80.
April 18, 20206 yr Author Just now, JRBarrett said: I haven’t been using the enhanced atmospherics on recent flights, because I’m not really impressed by the new True Sky clouds. I really like the way the enhanced atmosphere itself looks in terms of haze and lighting, but the clouds are too bland and poorly defined for my taste. Perhaps a different sun image is being used in enhanced mode, since the lighting is quite different. It's the same size actually as the non-beta default, unless you change it as we have....and that change keeps...even if you cycle between Atmos Beta and Default Sky
April 19, 20206 yr Sorry Mitch, just saw the thread. Good to read that you have found it.😀 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
April 19, 20206 yr Author 4 minutes ago, GSalden said: Sorry Mitch, just saw the thread. Good to read that you have found it.😀 Yes, thank you! I used your settings to view/base start,..and had on my system, an almost Super Nova, lol. I have since adjusted it to 2100, and looks about the same as XP11.50's default, on my UltraWide. Thanks again...for it is so much better, but..if you run with TrueSky...the sun disk reverts back to default size.
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April 19, 20206 yr Commercial Member 1 hour ago, Sesquashtoo said: Yes, thank you! I used your settings to view/base start,..and had on my system, an almost Super Nova, lol. I have since adjusted it to 2100, and looks about the same as XP11.50's default, on my UltraWide. Thanks again...for it is so much better, but..if you run with TrueSky...the sun disk reverts back to default size. Well that was my point I tried with TS but it ignores the sun size configuration Oficial Website: https://www.FSReborn.com Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/XC82TqvKQ3
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