Rogen's P3D v4

[PavlinS]

On 8/14/2023 at 10:41 AM, mikeymike said:

#pragma warning( disable : 3571 )
float2 atmoHeightDepth(float heightScale, float angle, float2 baseScale)
{
    return exp(-baseScale * heightScale) * (pow(abs(18.8125 * angle + 1.0), -1.28125) * 32.53323 + 0.29103) / baseScale;

}

Where in that file should I put this? Even better - can you send me a copy? I would love to test your tweaks. 

 

Can we also get some pictures with the settings for Envshade / Envtex? I would love to add them to the mixture. 

Edited September 22, 2023 by PavlinS

[Rogen]

On 9/22/2023 at 10:17 PM, PavlinS said:

Where in that file should I put this? Even better - can you send me a copy? I would love to test your tweaks. 

Can we also get some pictures with the settings for Envshade / Envtex? I would love to add them to the mixture. 

That abs() wrapper is to fix a shader generation error when using the Tomatoshade preset I've placed into this thread.

The Tomatoshade prefix also has the details in its comment section (at the bottom of the comments), where the shader name itself is GPUTerrain.fx

You'd only add the abs() wrapper if you've actually got that line in your GPUTerrain.fx, noting changing the Tomatoshade settings will also change the likelyhood of having this line.

I tested Envshade in P3D v5 while I was intially trialing the P3D v5 release, however v5 never ticked enough boxes to make it my go to sim, sorry.

Cheers

[PavlinS]

13 hours ago, Rogen said:

That abs() wrapper is to fix a shader generation error when using the Tomatoshade preset I've placed into this thread.

The Tomatoshade prefix also has the details in its comment section (at the bottom of the comments), where the shader name itself is GPUTerrain.fx

You'd only add the abs() wrapper if you've actually got that line in your GPUTerrain.fx, noting changing the Tomatoshade settings will also change the likelyhood of having this line.

I tested Envshade in P3D v5 while I was intially trialing the P3D v5 release, however v5 never ticked enough boxes to make it my go to sim, sorry.

Cheers

It works well now. 

 

don't mind the scenery. Not my best achievement. 

[bofhlusr]

16 hours ago, Rogen said:

I tested Envshade in P3D v5 while I was intially trialing the P3D v5 release, however v5 never ticked enough boxes to make it my go to sim, sorry.

This line "never ticked enough boxes" makes me wonder what those boxes are. 

[Rogen]

On 9/25/2023 at 1:54 AM, bofhlusr said:

This line "never ticked enough boxes" makes me wonder what those boxes are. 

Things like, airport elevation, parking and building issues, anti-aliasing issues, loss of WX weather radar, loss of some Orbx sceneries due to specific gfx rendering changes LM had made, loss of use of TomatoShade, loss of use of the custom cloud shader I have modified, TrueSky implementation less than optimal (now dropped from v6) meaning TrueSky was not a replacment for my custom cloud shader, tower issues with the objects database, aircraft issues with lighting and other aircraft related problems, a half assed vector improvement, introduced bugs still not resolved to this day, and probably a few more I've missed here.

Yes I did like the change from a direct lighting model to a linear lighting model, and the performance improvements were nice, although testing showed they were fairly minimal - like improving performance by tuning at the edges rather than at the root cause, meaning v5 can display a few extra 3D objects before P3D inevitably choked and crashed the fps.

In actuality the best performance improvement I've had has been newer hardware, faster RAM, better CPU and updated GFX card has made P3D a vastly improved sim for myself.

Cheers

Edited September 25, 2023 by Rogen

[PavlinS]

I wanna ask why do I get this weird purple on ground?

 

I do not have it when I use Tomato Shade with RDPresets preset. 

 

 

 

 

[newtie]

Reminds me of a few words of enduring wisdom that came from who knows where.

Newer is not always better.

If it’s working, leave it alone.

Funny you mention hardware. Years ago when Venema was running the show over at ORBX and people were complaining about the performance of his scenery he said if you want better performance, buy a faster computer. Still true today but there is a point of diminishing returns.

Anyway, about six months ago I mortgaged the house and bought a Jetline Gravity. Works perfectly right out of the crate and I haven’t touched it except to turn it on. Glad I used the qualifier ‘always’ in my first statement 🤗

[PavlinS]

Managed to fix the purple, but my sim is very grey looking, so I will have to edit the colors every time. 

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway, this is not screenshot topic, so I'll stop here. 

 

[Patco Lch]

22 hours ago, Rogen said:

In actuality the best performance improvement I've had has been newer hardware

LOL, the holy grail of flight simmimng.

[Rogen]

On 9/26/2023 at 9:17 AM, newtie said:

Reminds me of a few words of enduring wisdom that came from who knows where.

Newer is not always better.

If it’s working, leave it alone.

Funny you mention hardware. Years ago when Venema was running the show over at ORBX and people were complaining about the performance of his scenery he said if you want better performance, buy a faster computer. Still true today but there is a point of diminishing returns.

Anyway, about six months ago I mortgaged the house and bought a Jetline Gravity. Works perfectly right out of the crate and I haven’t touched it except to turn it on. Glad I used the qualifier ‘always’ in my first statement 🤗

Heh, "mortgaged the house", yep computer gear is expensive...

But usually it's relative where the last purchase is pretty similar overall to the latest and greatest, COVID and gfx cards excluded.

And I see people saying "just get" a 4090 for the most wonderest experience, however for many it won't be affordable, or they'll need a whole new computer, infact 4090 cards in AU are up around the 3 grand mark plus or minus a few hundred dollars, you can even pay upwards to nearly $7000.00 for one.

Glad to hear your jetline Gravity is working well 🙂

Cheers

[Rogen]

On 9/26/2023 at 1:06 PM, PavlinS said:

Managed to fix the purple, but my sim is very grey looking, so I will have to edit the colors every time. 

What was changed ?

Cheers

[PavlinS]

7 minutes ago, Rogen said:

What was changed ?

Cheers

Changed Tomato Mode. Part of the effects I keep, but the rest put off. Now I keep the desktop color settings high in Nvidia Settings. That's how I managed. Unfortunately my Aurora Borealis won't be visible, but no choice. 

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

[newtie]

7 hours ago, Rogen said:

Heh, "mortgaged the house", yep computer gear is expensive...

But usually it's relative where the last purchase is pretty similar overall to the latest and greatest, COVID and gfx cards excluded.

And I see people saying "just get" a 4090 for the most wonderest experience, however for many it won't be affordable, or they'll need a whole new computer, infact 4090 cards in AU are up around the 3 grand mark plus or minus a few hundred dollars, you can even pay upwards to nearly $7000.00 for one.

Glad to hear your jetline Gravity is working well 🙂

Cheers

It came with a 3080ti which has done everything I want it to do. I'm a midline slider guy so that certainly has a lot to do with it.

[Rogen]

On 9/27/2023 at 11:53 PM, newtie said:

It came with a 3080ti which has done everything I want it to do. I'm a midline slider guy so that certainly has a lot to do with it.

I too have a 3080-Ti, and it's a great card.

Personally I target full slider tunning and all checkboxes where applicable, as well as additional configuration options only available via the prepar3D.cfg, the intent being to maximize GFX card usage without overloading.

I aim for mid to high card GFX usage as well as mid to high mem use.

To do so I have a customised main prepar3D.cfg and several further selectable custom tuning profiles held in the P3D Documents & Files path.

The custom profiles are initally created from a base P3D and manually edited since P3D will reset many custom options to defaults if trying to manage via the P3D settings UI.

Cheers

[PavlinS]

Rogen, for some weird reason I have black clouds when I use your tweaks for the cloud fx shader. Any way to fix them? I have ActiveSky and Envshade / Envtex plus Tomato. It's a lot of shading, I know. I'll be glad on suggestions. 

 

Spoiler

 

Edited October 5, 2023 by PavlinS