Tomatoshade for P3D v5

[roland_lfor 245]

16 minutes ago, fs1 said:

I am working in a new shader mod for v5. Please PM me for testing if you'd like.

Thanks!

Interesting!

Does it work with TrueSKY?

[ErichB 3,638]

3 hours ago, GSalden said:

You have 2 shader presets : High performance and High Quality

Those presets you can finetune to your liking with several Sliders :

 

Thanks Gerald.

 I only fly with Truesky now which generally has far superior lighting, so unless it can be used to adjust some of those parameters which it probably can't while the enhanced atmospherics are still in beta, I think it's useless for me anyway

thanks though.

erich

 

[_Airbus_Fan_ 26]

YES TrueSky is very good, but the night environment is far too bright. It can't be that at midnight you can see the plane completely from the outside!
In addition, the sun play on the water is much too strong, it doesn't look nice anymore.

 

[guibru 473]

54 minutes ago, _Airbus_Fan_ said:

YES TrueSky is very good, but the night environment is far too bright. It can't be that at midnight you can see the plane completely from the outside!
In addition, the sun play on the water is much too strong, it doesn't look nice anymore.

 

Remember that Truesky is a beta, so the shaders will be improved. Patience it can only be improved.

[GSalden 4,655]

1 hour ago, ErichB said:

Thanks Gerald.

 I only fly with Truesky now which generally has far superior lighting, so unless it can be used to adjust some of those parameters which it probably can't while the enhanced atmospherics are still in beta, I think it's useless for me anyway

thanks though.

erich

 

True Sky for me is to unsharp with a mini mini sun in the sky

[ErichB 3,638]

5 minutes ago, GSalden said:

True Sky for me is to unsharp with a mini mini sun in the sky

I don't look at the sun much.  It'll burn my retinas.  🙂   So doesn't bother me that much.  

[_Airbus_Fan_ 26]

26 minutes ago, GSalden said:

True Sky ist für mich das Schärfen mit einer Mini-Mini-Sonne am Himmel

Maybe we should still wait for REX EF for P3Dv5 and see what possibilities it brings.
And Rex Skyforce §D for P3d V5 will fix the sun and the moon as in V4 !!

[G-YMML1 582]

That's why many patient folks are still with 4.5HF2 🙂

[planechaser 46]

With this plus all the DX12 hiccups and crashes and addons not compatible , it is 4.5 HF3 for me at the moment. I mainly use TS for atmospheric tweaks ( e.g. Raleigh Scattering effect , Sky Fog tuning , autogen light reflection etc). In V4 , it is a must of else my sim looks horrible ( the persistent haze effect  and washed out colors) .

But judging from the screenshots of v5 only with TrueSky/Enhanced AT , there may be no need  for PTA/TS  since it already provides a more realistic color and atmosphere. If you want to add some " icing on the cake" , Envdir can make some adjustments that will do the job.

I recently found a tweak in TomatoShade  which adds additional shadows to the terrain mesh , greatly enhancing ridges and mountainous areas . Gave it a try a few days ago , combined with the proper sky textures in REX SF , and other TS enhancements , and my sim has taken on a new life. Mountains are now looking almost photoreal ( this is with just Orbx LC and aftermarket mesh). Mesh looks much more high resolution , even at high altitudes. Took a flight yesterday in Mexico flying at FL350 and was amazed at the ground textures …. Wish I had discovered this sooner.

Once we get into a 5.1/5.2 version , crashes are fixed , all addons become compatible , and Enhanced Atmospherics works well , will probably move over to V5 as I already have a 11GB GPU and performance looks like to be improved in v5.

 

 

Edited May 26, 2020 by planechaser

[G-YMML1 582]

7 minutes ago, planechaser said:

With this plus all the DX12 hiccups and crashes and addons not compatible , it is 4.5 HF3 for me at the moment. I mainly use TS for atmospheric tweaks ( e.g. Raleigh Scattering effect , Sky Fog tuning , autogen light reflection etc). In V4 , it is a must of else my sim looks horrible ( the persistent haze effect  and washed out colors) .

But judging from the screenshots of v5 only with TrueSky/Enhanced AT , there may be no need  for PTA/TS  since it already provides a more realistic color and atmosphere. If you want to add some " icing on the cake" , Envdir can make some adjustments that will do the job.

I recently found a tweak in TomatoShade  which adds additional shadows to the terrain mesh , greatly enhancing ridges and mountainous areas . Gave it a try a few days ago , combined with the proper sky textures in REX SF , and other TS enhancements , and my sim has taken on a new life. Mountains are now looking almost photoreal ( this is with just Orbx LC and aftermarket mesh). Mesh looks much more high resolution , even at high altitudes. Took a flight yesterday in Mexico flying at FL350 and was amazed at the ground textures …. Wish I had discovered this sooner.

Once we get into a 5.1/5.2 version , crashes are fixed , all addons become compatible , and Enhanced Atmospherics works well , will probably move over to V5 as I already have a 11GB GPU and performance looks like to be improved in v5.

 

 

+ 100,000

[GSalden 4,655]

1 hour ago, _Airbus_Fan_ said:

Maybe we should still wait for REX EF for P3Dv5 and see what possibilities it brings.
And Rex Skyforce §D for P3d V5 will fix the sun and the moon as in V4 !!

You cannot modify the True Sky definition files. LM has to give us the possibility to do so.

In legacy mode you can like in V4 as then regular sky, sun and moon are being used.

 

 

 

[guibru 473]

50 minutes ago, GSalden said:

You cannot modify the True Sky definition files. LM has to give us the possibility to do so.

In legacy mode you can like in V4 as then regular sky, sun and moon are being used.

 

 

 

It is not LM that provides Truesky but Simul. https://simul.co/
They have no obligation to give the opportunity to amend it.
We’d love to, but if LM bought the license.

Edited May 26, 2020 by guibru

[Mroberts95 136]

16 minutes ago, guibru said:

It is not LM that provides Truesky but Simul. https://simul.co/
They have no obligation to give the opportunity to amend it.
We’d love to, but if LM bought the license.

Wonder if this will ever happen. I would happily buy a license myself if it meant I could edit the files that LM use for true sky but I know it’s not that simple. I am sure it’s in the works to have devs be able to edit the shaders etc so we can change how it looks, otherwise people will just go back to the old addons for Non EA mode.

[GSalden 4,655]

15 minutes ago, guibru said:

It is not LM that provides Truesky but Simul. https://simul.co/
They have no obligation to give the opportunity to amend it.
We’d love to, but if LM bought the license.

Isn’t it LM that gives us P3D ..., ?  So it is up to them to decide what we are allowed to do.

Simul is separate from what LM’s strategy is.

[kand 205]

There is a trusky SDK for £75, but I have read that LM used binaries so we can't adjust what the sim renders