May 9, 20206 yr Mitch the Guinea Pig, here...decided to 'take the plunge'....lol. Injectied Tropical Water and Coral from Rex 4 Texture Direct and the water is so much nicer in the Caribbean now! Not the same dark ocean blue everywhere in the Default P3Dv5 world...so, here is the new off-near shore, shallow tropical water :
May 9, 20206 yr This is so great to see! I decided to have another go with v5, and I just noticed the other day that I still have Texture Direct with Soft Clouds, so I'm going to give it a try. How do you direct it to v5?
May 9, 20206 yr Author 50 minutes ago, mtr75 said: This is so great to see! I decided to have another go with v5, and I just noticed the other day that I still have Texture Direct with Soft Clouds, so I'm going to give it a try. How do you direct it to v5? There will be a mask in the settings for both FSX and P3D4. In that mask, merely point to your ROOT P3D5 folder...and that's that. Now, when you send textures to your 'P3D4' directory it will be sending the textures to in fact, your P3D5 set up. Easy. Edited May 9, 20206 yr by Sesquashtoo
May 9, 20206 yr I just re-upped with v5 after having ditched it with all the bugs from the initial release. I have to say, now with EA on (and not crashing the sim), the water looks great. Really enjoy the visuals in the Caribbean now. Problem now is I’m having all these weird shimmers. Like the shadows of the islands on the water have a shimmer from a distance, the tops of the mountains on the islands have shimmers. I’ll have to figure it out.
May 9, 20206 yr Hey Mitch, While you are working on improving the sim : perhaps you can find a clouds/sky combo that looks a bit like TrueSky ... Myself I have ASCA + EnvTex + EnvShade The last one can be tuned to give more/less Raleigh scattering which TrueSky has too. 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
May 9, 20206 yr Slight topic offshoot: It seems like there are a few of us who really like flying around the Caribbean. It’s too bad there aren’t regional subforums where we could all discuss this region without having to clog up the main P3D forum. It would make it a lot easier to keep track of what we talk about as well. Have regional subforums ever existed?
May 9, 20206 yr I agree with how good the Caribbean looks. It seems the water is much more hi def to me and I am looking forward to what guys like REX will be able to do with enhancing it. Came into IDS's MYNN the other day and I was impressed with just what the stock water textures look like. This is only the beginning of what we are going to see visually with P3D. system i9 10850K NVidia RTX3090 24GB Samsung SSD980 m.2 1TB (x2) Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD Seagate 2TB external drive Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB SSD Asus B460M-PLUS Mobo 32GB GSkill DDR4 3000mhz Ram using P3D v5.3
May 9, 20206 yr I hope the REX boys are working some magic in the back room for V5. That water is much improved. Edited May 9, 20206 yr by ErichB
May 9, 20206 yr 2 hours ago, mtr75 said: I just re-upped with v5 after having ditched it with all the bugs from the initial release. I have to say, now with EA on (and not crashing the sim), the water looks great. Really enjoy the visuals in the Caribbean now. Problem now is I’m having all these weird shimmers. Like the shadows of the islands on the water have a shimmer from a distance, the tops of the mountains on the islands have shimmers. I’ll have to figure it out. I think that you are referring to a TrueSky bug. It's still in beta. Edited May 9, 20206 yr by DJJose MSFS
May 9, 20206 yr Author 6 hours ago, mtr75 said: I just re-upped with v5 after having ditched it with all the bugs from the initial release. I have to say, now with EA on (and not crashing the sim), the water looks great. Really enjoy the visuals in the Caribbean now. Problem now is I’m having all these weird shimmers. Like the shadows of the islands on the water have a shimmer from a distance, the tops of the mountains on the islands have shimmers. I’ll have to figure it out. Unfortunately, the water textures and wave swells are masked very much when having TrueSky on. For what I am showing here...you truly need to run in 'standard' mode. Not that that mode is in any way, a 'dog'! Compare what I have done here, if you decide to follow the lead...and you will see for yourselves...TrueSky has to be 'off'.
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