Hello guys,

I'm pleased to see that some of you are eager to see what Envplus will be bringing. I'm pretty sure many of you will be pleased to hear what's coming. No it's not simply EA shaders tweaks, it's more than this even if it's part of it 😇
I'm also seeing some users frustrated with some issues here. Guys, I hear you, I perfectly understand you, we are not perfect, nobody is but we're doing our best to provide quality products. When we entered the payware market we wanted to provide quality at low price, it is our philosophy and it will remain our philosophy, it has another cost though: it's pretty hard to bring new developers to the team with these prices, as you already know I'm doing most of the development part and all the support alone, sometimes I don't take time to answer and prefer to focus on solving the issues but it does not mean I am not aware of them and that I'm ignoring them. I'll take a bit of time to answer all of your worries and frustration I've seen on this topic.

On 1/30/2022 at 12:34 AM, alepro21 said:

I still can’t open EnvDir so I won’t be inclined to spend more money with TOGA until they fix that. 

As already explained in another thread, there are a very small numbers of users affected by this problem. We have reviewed our code tens of times, there is no technical reason for this to happen and we absolutely cannot reproduce it at all. All of our attempts to find the culprit are still waiting for some proper feedbacks, not saying that it's users fault but I'm afraid there's not much we can do until someone affected by the problem is ready to help us to help him/her.

 

On 1/30/2022 at 12:58 AM, VHOJT said:

Their support is not good.

Also, I'd like to ask the developer why the shaders make aircraft brighter at night - or how I can reverse this, but there is no point as there are rarely replies.

I've already answered your question. Envshade is not and cannot make aircraft brighter at night, unless you ask Envshade to do that using the corresponding slider. If the aircraft shadowing slider is still at the default position then please check your P3D HDR brightness is set as recommended in the user manual, if it is, then another modification is creating the problem.

 

On 1/30/2022 at 7:14 AM, CaptKornDog said:

That's one of my struggles as well - I'd like to make the VC's brighter but keep the rest of the aircraft exterior darker, especially at night.

Unfortunately, as I already said also on our forum, it's not really possible as brightening only the VC may also affect some exterior parts. As an example: brightening the VC on the Aerosoft A330 will make your engines much brighter in external view, absolutely killing the visual immersion.
On the shader side, there's no difference between interior and exterior objects so there is a compromise needed here unfortunately. You will probably tell me that PTA was doing that : yes, there was such an option in PTA, but the possible issues were the same, if we would do that then other users would complain about the brighter external parts, that's an assumed choice from us.

 

On 1/30/2022 at 8:12 AM, YoYo said:

Firstly they must to fix his Envshade for P3Dv5.3 HT2. The support Forum forum is a little dead. :/, Im waiting still.

As I said as well on the forum, we're looking into the VR single pass sky issue, please realize that sometimes there are tens of topics about the same issue, we can't answer them all without losing time, and there would be no point in doing so if it was already acknowledged. This is also part of our forum rules: check existing non answered topics before posting. I'm actually preparing several versions for you guys to test as we're not VR equipped.

 

On 1/30/2022 at 1:19 PM, Chapstick said:

Well you kinda answered your own question as to why anyone would want to tweak shaders these days. I don't even use Envshade anymore, just Bio's freely available tweaks.

 

Fork over another $29.99 to enjoy slightly better looking clouds that still can't simulate actual weather systems? lmao ok

In all due respect, Envshade does much much much much more than Bio's free tweaks, it's great he's sharing them but honestly this is not comparable. By the way, Envshade is 5,6€ which pretty far from the 29.99$ you are talking about.

 

On 1/31/2022 at 10:27 PM, dave2013 said:

The developer teased weeks ago that they would have "extremely good news" about ENVSHADE and EA soon. 

I hope this isn't it.  Otherwise, it's just another money grab for something that ENVSHADE should already do.

Dave

I understand your point, that being said you still don't know exactly what Envplus will include.
Also, Envshade is a 4 years old product sold at 5.6€, supporting 3 different simulator versions and which receives at least an update every month. As a company how would we survive without new products? EA was far from our thoughts during initial release, customization as well as PTA was already there at that time, development has costs and we must absorb these with sales. Our pricing philosophy will remain fair anyways and existing users will be rewarded for their fidelity 🙂

 

On 1/31/2022 at 10:59 PM, Afterburner said:

Yes, what's the point of receiving news in my mailbox about the upcoming ENVPLUS, and when I visit the website, all it says is "control visuals like never before" without going into more detail. How lame!

My main mistake is that I've talked about a new product too early. I thought we would be ready earlier but it was not the case, that's why we usually don't give any date and I should have kept that in mind. You'll have more details very soon though 😉

Edited February 2, 20224 yr by kmax59

Thank You reply. However, I would like to add that you do not need to be nervous 😉, we as consumers and customers and we want to have the best and as soon as possible. This is normal, is it? 😅 I know perfectly well that you are a small group of enthusiasts with extensive knowledge. Sometimes it is enough to just add that ok, we will check the thing and that's it. Overall, P3D has lost a lot of customers to MSFS, and it's so good that you keep updating Envshade, it probably doesn't have a business case anymore. I will also add that for me the addition is great and of course I prefer to fly with Envshade, as I used to with PTA (for P3Dv4).

Btw. the first pach is out now 1.1.7.3.1.

 

On 2/2/2022 at 6:31 AM, kmax59 said:

Unfortunately, as I already said also on our forum, it's not really possible as brightening only the VC may also affect some exterior parts.

Thanks.  That’s too bad to hear.