P3Dv5.2.1 Blue Tint and Haze?

[Chuck Dreier 75]

I'm sure this is a basic question but I'm moving from v4.5.  As much as I'd like to use EA, when it is enabled (even with volumetric clouds at 0), I have a terrible blue tint and haze.  As much as I've worked on settings I haven't found a way to compensate for this.  Would someone help me, or is this inherent to Enhanced Atmospherics?  If so, why would anyone use it?  Thanks!!

[btacon 1,788]

1 hour ago, Chuck Dreier said:

I'm sure this is a basic question but I'm moving from v4.5.  As much as I'd like to use EA, when it is enabled (even with volumetric clouds at 0), I have a terrible blue tint and haze.  As much as I've worked on settings I haven't found a way to compensate for this.  Would someone help me, or is this inherent to Enhanced Atmospherics?  If so, why would anyone use it?  Thanks!!

Hi Chuck. I don’t know the answer but as a user of 5.1 HF2 I was quite surprised by the blue wall. Not experienced that visual in previous versions and I find it quite silly looking. 
 

With clouds it sort of works but in CAVU?  Forget it!

-btacon

[Chuck Dreier 75]

Wow!  I followed the setting guidelines by the book.   After all of this I’m really not sure what’s the advantage of using v5.2.1 compared to v4.5.3.  I really am baffled as far as a significant or compelling difference?

Edited June 12, 2021 by Chuck Dreier

[LRBS 946]

Unfortunately not realistic at all. It's getting to the point where you wonder what's going on.

I've seen haze, low visibility but blueish and washed colors like it at any hour during day time like this never ever in real life.

[Chuck Dreier 75]

Please understand.  I’m not complaining, but after many hours of installation I’m not seeing any advantage of v5 compared to a well tuned v4.  Would a few of you please explain the benefits. It would be greatly appreciated. 

[Benjamin J 751]

Well, for me, the advantage is 100% in the performance. P3Dv5 enables me, with a 'okay' computer, to go full-out on places like LA and NYC with the likes of the PMDG 747. I have never been able to do this before. Personally I also like EA better than the legacy atmospherics, but it seems that this is a matter of taste to some extent?

[pads103 37]

PERFORMANCE

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

23 hours ago, Chuck Dreier said:

As much as I'd like to use EA, when it is enabled (even with volumetric clouds at 0), I have a terrible blue tint and haze. 

It takes some getting used to, but can actually seem more realistic when airborne in hilly or mountainous territory.  If you do not like it, turn off EA and it will look like V4.5 again.  The performance of V5 vs V4 is still noticeable.

Here an example: EA on and off..

Edited June 13, 2021 by Bert Pieke

[threexgreen 3,139]

18 hours ago, Benjamin J said:

Personally I also like EA better than the legacy atmospherics, but it seems that this is a matter of taste to some extent?

It's more so a matter of EA being work in progress and rather slow at that. For example, they only now got rid of the extremely red sky and clouds during dusk, one year after release that is. There are still bugs and shortcomings in 5.2 like the cloud grid pattern or clouds cut off all at the same altitude with no overlap. I like it and have been flying with it enabled since 5.1, but there is still a long way to go, especially if you look at trueSKY promo videos which are a hundred miles away still from what we are seeing in P3D.

[Chuck Dreier 75]

I’ve worked and fiddled with this.  I’m back to 4.5.3.  Seriously, it’s still not worth it for me.  My Version 5 Professional is bought and paid for since the day it was released.  Maybe down the road.

Edited June 13, 2021 by Chuck Dreier