My first texture and Shader tweaks result

[kand 205]

14 hours ago, GSalden said:

Here with Kiwi’s Sun set. Compare this to me earlier Dusk screenshot

Nice but still the weak point with legacy shaders is that the ambient lux levels around dusk is way too low. Twilight is a lot better with true sky enabled, but then you have to put up with all the limitations of its implementation. 

[Christopher Low 5,341]

The sunlight reflection in your first screenshot looks strange, Gerard. The light ripples look dark, not light.

Edited May 11, 2020 by Christopher Low

[GSalden 4,656]

1 hour ago, Christopher Low said:

The sunlight reflection in your first screenshot looks strange, Gerard. The light ripples look dark, not light.

It is work in progress Christopher. The first 2 screenhots had other sun textures and I am still mixing several suns into one good looking version.   

 

[GSalden 4,656]

1 hour ago, kand said:

Nice but still the weak point with legacy shaders is that the ambient lux levels around dusk is way too low. Twilight is a lot better with true sky enabled, but then you have to put up with all the limitations of its implementation. 

Thanks , I will see what I can do within the limits. 

[GSalden 4,656]

Some improvement : more diffuse sunlight + godrays ( still legacy mode not True Sky ) :

 

 

[patrice_bambou 85]

Hi Gerard,

Where do you fine the "Kiwi’s Sun set"? is it a theme from Envtex?

Thanks.

Patrice

Edited May 11, 2020 by patrice_bambou

[GSalden 4,656]

Hi Patrice,

Take a look here :

https://www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?uploader=60779

[patrice_bambou 85]

Hi Gerard,

Ok, thank you.

There are a lot of textures here!

Patrice.

 

[molleh 451]

To be perfectly honest, with the "legacy" sky/clouds rendering enabled it still just looks like plain old FSX/P3D. 😕 Granted you've improved it there, but it still demonstrates to me just how much of a leap modern rendering methods a la TrueSky really are.

[GSalden 4,656]

38 minutes ago, molleh said:

To be perfectly honest, with the "legacy" sky/clouds rendering enabled it still just looks like plain old FSX/P3D. 😕 Granted you've improved it there, but it still demonstrates to me just how much of a leap modern rendering methods a la TrueSky really are.

You are totally correct.

But True Sky has to be improved a lot : clouds that look unsharp, max 2 cloud layers, mini sun, flickering on textures etc etc.

So therefore I am trying to mimic a little the True Sky look.

What I want is more scattered sunlight at dusk. On my last screenshot it looks nice but normally you would not see the round sun. You would see a wall of light where the sun is

That effect I had in V4.5..,

So this kind of sun want in the above screenshot...

 

Edited May 11, 2020 by GSalden

[cyyzrwy24 123]

7 hours ago, GSalden said:

You are totally correct.

But True Sky has to be improved a lot : clouds that look unsharp, max 2 cloud layers, mini sun, flickering on textures etc etc.

So therefore I am trying to mimic a little the True Sky look.

What I want is more scattered sunlight at dusk. On my last screenshot it looks nice but normally you would not see the round sun. You would see a wall of light where the sun is

That effect I had in V4.5..,

So this kind of sun want in the above screenshot...

 

I managed to get something to my liking and finally managed to "open" Envshade..Days are wonderful...But nights....to dark...you had settings somewhere for dark....? For moon bigger? I remember you had posted something somewhere....

[GSalden 4,656]

Dawn:

Edited May 12, 2020 by GSalden

[GSalden 4,656]

5 hours ago, cyyzrwy24 said:

I managed to get something to my liking and finally managed to "open" Envshade..Days are wonderful...But nights....to dark...you had settings somewhere for dark....? For moon bigger? I remember you had posted something somewhere....

prepar3d.cfg: C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4 

MOON_PHASE_LIGHTING=False

 

Perhaps it also works in V5.

Edited May 12, 2020 by GSalden

[Adamski_NZ 948]

Hi Gerard! I'm not getting much of a response from the TOGA forums, so I thought I'd ask here 😉

I'm on P3Dv5 HF1 and Envshade 1.3.1.3. Initially, I was quite pleased - but on closer inspection, it turns out that it's totally killed my cloud shadows - and terrain lighting looks pretty dull. No amount of tweaking in Envshade brings them back to life.

Here's a fairly untweaked vew (in legacy non-EA mode):

.. and here's what Envshade gives me (yes, I've reloaded shaders etc.):

Do they work for you?

Adam.

 

[GSalden 4,656]

Hi Adam,

Yes, they work but you need the Cloud Shadows slider completely to the right.

Personally I preferred them a little darker than EnvShades darkest setting.

I am looking into the Shaders and some parts have changed.

Hopefully Tomato Shade will be updated.

EnvShade is 2 presets + several sliders for finetuning. A different approach than PTA /TS.