My first texture and Shader tweaks result

[Adamski_NZ 942]

32 minutes ago, GSalden said:

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.

Thanks, Gerard .... I could have sworn I'd tried with it maxed out to the right as well - it seemed the most obvious thing to try first (!). I'll give it another go.

How do you mean "EnvShade is 2 presets"? ... maybe I'm missing something blindingly obvious (not unknown!!). Unless you mean "High Quality" and "High Performance"?

Difficult to find any information at all, these days, about Tomatoshade. Let's hope!!! I've more or less given up on PTA 😞

Adam.

Edited May 12, 2020 by Adamski_NZ

[GSalden 4,655]

EnvShade has 2 presets : performance and high quality ( at the top ) 

[Adamski_NZ 942]

Ahah! Our posts crossed! Yes - I tried in either mode - and also after a complete reinstall (as kindly suggested by TOGA). Still no luck though 😞.

[GSalden 4,655]

29 minutes ago, Adamski_NZ said:

Ahah! Our posts crossed! Yes - I tried in either mode - and also after a complete reinstall (as kindly suggested by TOGA). Still no luck though 😞.

Adam,

You can always take a look in V4 shader files and use PTA to see what changes when you modify settings.

And then look if in the same V5 shaded files these lines also exist.

[Adamski_NZ 942]

I don't have v4 on my system any more - though I'm sure I have plenty of shaders backups stashed away somewhere. I did a file compare with the default v5 and the ones Envshade changes: loads of additions/changes (understandably) but I wouldn't know where to start!

[GSalden 4,655]

Here also no V4 anymore but I kept all default v4 shaders.

So I can make a V4 folder.
Save the default Shader files.

With PTA you can change a value and after saving you can compare the default files with the modified files to see what line changed.

You will have to do this for every tweak.

After you have found all tweaks you can start looking for them in the V5 Shaders.

Some you will find, others not as they might have changed.

This is my approach..

[GSalden 4,655]

15 hours ago, Adamski_NZ said:

I don't have v4 on my system any more - though I'm sure I have plenty of shaders backups stashed away somewhere. I did a file compare with the default v5 and the ones Envshade changes: loads of additions/changes (understandably) but I wouldn't know where to start!

Adam, I have reinstalled a vanilla V4.5 HF3 so I can test the PTA tweaks one by one and then compare the modified shader files with the default shader files too see what text belongs to a tweak.

Then I will look into the V5 Shaders to see if these text exists also there.

As V5 has a lot in common with V4 I guess that I will find multiple tweaks.

First on my list are cloud shadows, cloud darkness at night and cloud saturation.

Fingers crossed 😎

[Adamski_NZ 942]

Brave man, Gerard!!! Many thanks - I'll be looking forward to the results of your research! I'm hoping the devs will come up with some fixes/mods of their own soon.

[BMW969 126]

On 5/10/2020 at 8:56 PM, GSalden said:

I  bought ENVTEX + Envashade. Set the sliders as shown above. I look at the sun and can’t take my eyes off. Honestly, badly.

After REX Sky Force 3D, the sun looks .... It's not the sun, it's just a circle.

Grungy glare on the plane in cloudy weather.

And the dynamic adaptation of lighting stopped working with this addon.

Maybe I'm wrong. How to make out beauty?

 

[GSalden 4,655]

1 hour ago, BMW969 said:

I  bought ENVTEX + Envashade. Set the sliders as shown above. I look at the sun and can’t take my eyes off. Honestly, badly.

After REX Sky Force 3D, the sun looks .... It's not the sun, it's just a circle.

Grungy glare on the plane in cloudy weather.

And the dynamic adaptation of lighting stopped working with this addon.

Maybe I'm wrong. How to make out beauty?

 

You should contact Maxime from EnvTex. He is very helpful.

Please report back if you have solved it.

[mpo910 2,112]

2 hours ago, BMW969 said:

I  bought ENVTEX + Envashade. Set the sliders as shown above. I look at the sun and can’t take my eyes off. Honestly, badly.

After REX Sky Force 3D, the sun looks .... It's not the sun, it's just a circle.

Grungy glare on the plane in cloudy weather.

And the dynamic adaptation of lighting stopped working with this addon.

Maybe I'm wrong. How to make out beauty?

 

You are not alone affected by this Envshade! Shader Issue on PMDG. I have this too. Marcus

[Adamski_NZ 942]

1 hour ago, BMW969 said:

And the dynamic adaptation of lighting stopped working with this addon.

That's precisely why I bought it LOL!!!

I've been posting on the Envtex forum myself - but Maxime has said he has some issues to deal with right at the moment, so won't be responding quite as quickly as he would have liked. I'm hoping this isn't anything to do with the virus or associated tragedy.

As a matter of interest - are you seeing cloud shadows in non-EA mode? I'm not!

Adam.

[BMW969 126]

35 minutes ago, Adamski_NZ said:

That's precisely why I bought it LOL!!

As a matter of interest - are you seeing cloud shadows in non-EA mode? I'm not!

Adam.

When I saw a hole instead of the sun, I was upset and refused to take off. Therefore, I will not say anything about the shadows from the clouds.

[Adamski_NZ 942]

25 minutes ago, BMW969 said:

When I saw a hole instead of the sun, I was upset and refused to take off. Therefore, I will not say anything about the shadows from the clouds.

I can understand your frustration (!!) - but I thought we generally try to help each other on these forums 😉

[GSalden 4,655]

Because of the coming end of Corona Lockdown at France  Maxime has to catch up a lot of work on his daytime job.

Therefore his Flightsim support is at a lower level now.