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Edited December 29, 20205 yr by micstatic
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This now automatic.

Updates:
-Implemented FlyTampa Universal Installer
-Improved P3Dv5 compatibility
-Corrected airport elevation problems 
-Automatic seasonal texture switches
-Optimised autogen around the airport
-Airport dynamic lights
-Optimised city 3D lights
-Airport lights switch on automatically at low-visibility
-Fixed ground texture artifacts
-Functional VDGS units for P3Dv5

 

Hope that old ADE files would fit.

In fact, I'd rather wait for their V2 product and honestly I don't understand why Emilio pushed the 1.3 update if he states that V2 release is near.

 

1 minute ago, G-YMML1 said:

Hope that old ADE files would fit.

In fact, I'd rather wait for their V2 product and honestly I don't understand why Emilio pushed the 1.3 update if he states that V2 release is near.

 

V2 will maybe be a paid update.

one thing I notice is that dynamic lighting is barely working on my pbr aircraft at gate.  anybody else?

Great news. Downloading now. Server speed is very low......620kb/s......in europe and in USA 60kb/s....

Anyone else having low download speeds due server....?

Marcus

49 minutes ago, blaunarwal said:

V2 will maybe be a paid update.

I don't care. When the original was released? 2015?

Is the update for P3Dv5 only or does it work in P3Dv4.5 as well?

3 hours ago, micstatic said:

one thing I notice is that dynamic lighting is barely working on my pbr aircraft at gate.  anybody else?

DL is barely working at any airport in v5.1 with HDR on in either EA or non-EA mode. LM has got the night lighting royally screwed up. I hope people like @simbol or Rob are letting them know for v5. 2.

1 hour ago, B777ER said:

DL is barely working at any airport in v5.1 with HDR on in either EA or non-EA mode. LM has got the night lighting royally screwed up. I hope people like @simbol or Rob are letting them know for v5. 2.

i definitely have had my share of problems with DL since V5.  But atleast it works on basically all my other airports.  Granted I fly ea off /hdr off and many have required new fx from the scenery maker or inibuilds.  But I agree with you.  

The airport looks very good.

Tomorrow I will check if it is fully compatible with True Earth Netherlands.

With the former version there were some mods to be made (Orbx package).

 

The effect system requires 2 values for effects to work correctly:

A) Amount of light in Lumen for day and night: This is required to work with any material that is PBR, having the wrong Lumen means DL will illuminate PBR surfaces incorrectly. If this property is not present in the effect file, P3D will asume 2000 lumen's, this is why you can see sometimes big bright lights on certain add-on's.

B) Amount of light present in the Alpha value of the color of the light for day and night: This is the old value used before since P3D V4, this value will be used to represent light against NON PBR Objects.

This is what get's tricky:

1) if your airplane is NON PBR and the effect file is configured only with Lumens.. the light will be ZERO againts your airplane since your airplane is being rendered with non PBR material.

2) If your airplane is PBR and the effect file is configured only with the old value via the RGBA, the light will be super bright (2000 lumens) against your airplane since P3D will asume 2000 lumens as default.

So you need to set both values correctly so the light effect always looks good. The changes above have been present since P3D V5.0, LM warned all developers regarding the changes for effects file since this was necessary in order to implement linear lighting for the simulator and increase performance. Prior to the release of P3D V5.0 I had to re-adjust over 300,000 effects files.. yes, you read it correctly, 300K effects (not only for my add-on's, I work with other developers to create effects) and yes.. it was all FOR FREE..

The difference with 5.1 is that HDR is now ENFORCED with EA enabled, making the lighting behavior explained above more obvious, what you guys are describing is not a bug. It is the lack of updating of effects as per P3D V5.0 requirements.

I tweak each of my effects to work with PBR and non PBR materials (this is for all add-on's I am involved with different partners and developers ).. it takes a lot of time, work and dedication.. and it is the reason why such products have the price tag they have, they just works as they should.

S.

Edited December 29, 20205 yr by simbol

13 minutes ago, GSalden said:

The airport looks very good.

Tomorrow I will check if it is fully compatible with True Earth Netherlands.

With the former version there were some mods to be made (Orbx package).

 

Gerard,

 

Does it have SODE jetways by default?

finally an easy installer.  I dunno it took them so long to come with an installer.  But Kudos at last.

43 minutes ago, simbol said:

they just works as they should

Excellent explanation, thanks @simbol