Hi

What can be done about the abysmal depiction of waterscape when cruising in the flightlevels and looking down? It looks worse than vanilla FSX at times.

My setttings are one notch below maximum detail for water. Any advice is appreciated.

Edited November 1, 20205 yr by SAS443

horrible yes. The water waves look horrible . Too unrealistic at different FL. 

Marcus

Edited November 1, 20205 yr by mpo910

53 minutes ago, SAS443 said:

Hi

What can be done about the abysmal depiction of waterscape when cruising in the flightlevels and looking down? It looks worse than vanilla FSX at times.

My setttings are one notch below maximum detail for water. Any advice is appreciated.

Wil check it too and report back.

That looks similar to what I see at high water detail levels in P3Dv4.5HF2. My solution? I pulled the water slider all the way to the left, so that there is no wave texture at all. My water looks much better now

Here exactly the same terrible cloudshadows when they exist in the sun’s reflection on the water.

Outside the bright reflection they look good.

With EA enabled it looks much better.

Anyone posted this at the LM forum ? I will join in that topic.

Edited November 1, 20205 yr by GSalden

Yes, the terrain and cloud reflection looks worse in V5.1.

At the moment I have not seen a particular topic about this in LM forum.

I just made one comment:

https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=140048

"It's not worth uploading another video, now we can see there is a lot of commented about the issues related to EA (Flashing, pixelated edges around objects, trees and buildings, distorted clouds, sky too orange, bad cloud and terrain reflections, too much haze making impossible to fly in VFR or without instruments".

Regards.

Edited November 1, 20205 yr by alox

I already used the word "catastrophic" in one of my earlier post about EA 5.1. Only the overall sky dawn and dusk colors are better as before when using standard presets.....but that's it. 

6 months after it's initial release such a word not allowed output is really remarkable. I think they had to do much more backbone work to gain performance and gain stability. As now the most complains are about PBR, Weather plugin and EA visual looks, I hope they will do visible improvements within a Hotfix the next days and weeks. I really do not hope the next visual enhancement let us wait for another 6 months. That would be a shame as they sold true sky 6 months ago as implemented and after release they suddenly stated it is beta. Before release no word about that. 

Bad marketing! Bad taste. 

Marcus

Edited November 1, 20205 yr by mpo910

I am little confused with the whole EA implementation. It is still not mature, many products do not play well with it, and you get some funky looking visuals at certain times of day (and I dont mean that in a Good way)

Also, as some has already pointed out, aircraft lighting and shadows seem broken aswell.

hopefully hotfix can cure some of the bugs.

3 hours ago, alox said:

Yes, the terrain and cloud reflection looks worse in V5.1.

At the moment I have not seen a particular topic about this in LM forum.

I just made one comment:

https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=140048

"It's not worth uploading another video, now we can see there is a lot of commented about the issues related to EA (Flashing, pixelated edges around objects, trees and buildings, distorted clouds, sky too orange, bad cloud and terrain reflections, too much haze making impossible to fly in VFR or without instruments".

Regards.

Hi, 

try deactivate Dynamics Reflexions for getting rid of pixelated edges with EA. This fix also the rain and fog in VC at P3D V5 HF2, and helps with the performance a lot. Bad news is that the vanilla global map for reflections is pretty bad sometimes.