RDShade Released

[puukart14 19]

43 minutes ago, threegreen said:

What is the maximum value you can set for the cockpit brightness tweak? And, if you have time, could you check if this makes the night in P3D brighter in any way? Another mod I'm using to make cockpits realistic unfortunately makes the night way too bright.

Sure thing!  I’m a little tied up at the moment, but I’ll try and report back when I get to flying.

[puukart14 19]

3 hours ago, threegreen said:

What is the maximum value you can set for the cockpit brightness tweak? And, if you have time, could you check if this makes the night in P3D brighter in any way? Another mod I'm using to make cockpits realistic unfortunately makes the night way too bright.

Alright, I did a quick check and have a few more screenshots.  As an FYI, I'm using a different preset now than I had during my earlier screenshot post (cockpit textures are brighter than vanilla P3D, but not as overdone looking to me). 

The cockpit brightness setting has an adjustable range of 0.1 to 1.9.  The "before" screenshot below for the "ClearedTakeoff" preset has a value of 0.3 and gives the following cockpit brightness and external sim appearance at night. 

• RDShade lighting panel example

• NGXu cockpit at "ClearedTakeoff" preset default settings

• External shot at "ClearedTakeoff" preset default settings

• NGXu cockpit with brightness value changed to maximum of 1.9 (all other preset settings untouched)

• External shot with cockpit brightness value changed to maximum of 1.9 (all other preset settings untouched)

 

Once the shaders loaded in after making the change, I didn't notice much of if any difference at all subjectively in the overall sim brightness at night.  I've not run shader programs like this before with P3D, so I'm still trying to take it all in.  Hope this brief look helps! 

[gregda 21]

The brightness adjustment is lower is brightest (0.1) and higher is darkest (1.9).

[threexgreen 3,156]

1 hour ago, puukart14 said:

Alright, I did a quick check and have a few more screenshots.  As an FYI, I'm using a different preset now than I had during my earlier screenshot post (cockpit textures are brighter than vanilla P3D, but not as overdone looking to me). 

Thank you for the reply. Like @gregdasaid though, what you adjust are cockpit shadows (not directly brightness), so a higher value means darker cockpit because you boost shadows depth. At least that's how it always worked with other shader tweakers.

It's good that it doesn't seem to alter night lighting. If you or anyone else could post a picture of a cockpit at the highest brightness level (lowest value) without applying any other tweak, we could see how much the tool can do with regards to cockpit brightness.

[puukart14 19]

3 hours ago, threegreen said:

Thank you for the reply. Like @gregdasaid though, what you adjust are cockpit shadows (not directly brightness), so a higher value means darker cockpit because you boost shadows depth. At least that's how it always worked with other shader tweakers.

It's good that it doesn't seem to alter night lighting. If you or anyone else could post a picture of a cockpit at the highest brightness level (lowest value) without applying any other tweak, we could see how much the tool can do with regards to cockpit brightness.

I restored my original shaders in the sim and made this comparison with the brightness setting set to 0.1 (the default value in RDShade after the shader restore was 1.0).

• Pre-brightness tweak applied

• Cockpit brightness set to 0.1 in RDShade

 

It might be a little hard to see in the shots above, but making that brightness change added a touch of a grey hue across the image (the runway markings actually show it somewhat).  I also went back and checked the visuals at night, same results as before with not much overall sim brightness differentiation between the two settings.  Think I'm going to go back to trying the remaining presets to see which one I like most. 

[CaptKornDog 286]

On 3/28/2022 at 12:53 PM, ferrarirmc said:

Here is a quick example I made, default P3D on both sides, only adjusted the cockpit brightness tweak in RDShade this case all other tweaks disabled. Left is default, right is with only cockpit brightness increased in RDShade.

Does your VC tweak also impact the rest of the plane as well, e.g. exterior model?

 

Seems that some VC brightness tweaks (some community freeware ones, and others like ENVshade) impacted ALL aspects of the aircraft, interior and exterior as an unintended consequence.  Bright VC but also an almost glowing exterior and cabin at night. I’ve certainly paid for multiple addons trying to rectify this so I won’t to be absolutely certain of a workaround or fix before I spend even more money on the issue.

 

Thanks

[Patco Lch 1,479]

The only acceptable tweek I found is I turn on the panel and background lights even in the day . That or turn EA off. I have all the TOGA stuff but just can’t get cockpit lighting to my liking.

Edited March 30, 2022 by Patco Lch

[Bob_Z 30]

To use this, I would need to turn off all TOGA products, ASCA and Pascal tweaks, correct?

[threexgreen 3,156]

16 hours ago, puukart14 said:

It might be a little hard to see in the shots above, but making that brightness change added a touch of a grey hue across the image (the runway markings actually show it somewhat).  I also went back and checked the visuals at night, same results as before with not much overall sim brightness differentiation between the two settings.  Think I'm going to go back to trying the remaining presets to see which one I like most. 

Thanks for the pictures. Unfortunately, it seems the tweak has the same range as other programs like Envshade and doesn't make much of a difference. You have to wonder what on earth LM are doing...

[EDDIEFSX 1]

I'm beyond frustrated with this product, after installation ALL my ground textures became white, I mean even from the Topdown view the whole globe is white, uninstalled with no help, I'm out of ideas, anybody can help? 

[exeodus 78]

5 hours ago, EDDIEFSX said:

I'm beyond frustrated with this product, after installation ALL my ground textures became white, I mean even from the Topdown view the whole globe is white, uninstalled with no help, I'm out of ideas, anybody can help? 

You can try to run a repair on the client and content portions of the P3D installer to see if it fixes it.

[ndflieger 55]

13 hours ago, EDDIEFSX said:

I'm beyond frustrated with this product, after installation ALL my ground textures became white, I mean even from the Topdown view the whole globe is white, uninstalled with no help, I'm out of ideas, anybody can help? 

Are you running P3Dv4.5? If so, there is a fix for that posted in a couple of places on their forum. I had the same issue and the file Robin provided solved the issue. 

From their forum:

https://forum.rdpresets.com/topic/66-missing-terrain-and-autogen-p3dv45/

However, I spent over a day trying to get pre-sets, etc., to work and finally gave up. Evidently RDShade doesn't play nice with P3Dv4.5 at this point.  I'm back to Envshade and will probably stick with that as the whole experience with RDShade was not good.

I have the file downloaded and saved. If you need it, PM me with an email address I can send it to.

Regards,

Scott

[EDDIEFSX 1]

OH MAN AM I RELIEVED! That fixed it, I guess I'll wait for the hotfix and see, Thank you guys very much!

[cowpatz 243]

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[zubillagajose 2]

take into account when changing settings with ea off or ea on, like ea on, the cabin brightness if adjusted from higher to lower