Potential improvements for sky colors

[Jan Urban 8]

I am also very much interested in editing the encrypted and locked MS store version exe. Hope there is a way. Thank you.

[Alvega 2,124]

38 minutes ago, Flic1 said:

Are you able to explain how to change these values?  I am able to open the .exe with HexEd and can find the offset but that is where I am lost. Not sure where these numbers go. Thanks!

I used HxD and searched for the values using "Floating point number" (4th tab in the search window). I found them in two different places, but only changed them in the second place according to @Biology instructions on the official forum thread. The first value I couldn't find initially because for me it's 0.00065 instead of 0.00066. Knowing the offset seems to be useless because it changes for every sim version. I recommend reading the thread in the official forum, that's where I learned how to do it. 

[Alvega 2,124]

46 minutes ago, ConairMSFS said:

Is there a way for MS store users to edit the file?

Tried messing around with permissions but without results, cannot even copy it to another location.

Thanks.

I don't think it's possible to edit the file with the store version, but I may be wrong.

[Biology 1,347]

2 hours ago, Alvega said:

I used HxD and searched for the values using "Floating point number" (4th tab in the search window). I found them in two different places, but only changed them in the second place according to @Biology instructions on the official forum thread. The first value I couldn't find initially because for me it's 0.00065 instead of 0.00066. Knowing the offset seems to be useless because it changes for every sim version. I recommend reading the thread in the official forum, that's where I learned how to do it. 

That was a typo on my part, it's indeed supposed to be 0.00065 instead.

Edited September 12, 2023 by Biology

[Bond 114]

Interestingly in VR the green band doesn't show up, at least with my Pico4...

Maybe someone could confirm this.

[lagaffe 203]

One question for Biology:

The question is perhaps border line I think I read that you had try on XP and P3D, with publication of screens on XP. For P3D, what is your feeling and how to install it?

[Epgd 138]

Hey, 

there is VIDEO Tutorial how to change this manualy step by step....

 

[Biology 1,347]

On 9/14/2023 at 3:48 PM, lagaffe said:

One question for Biology:

The question is perhaps border line I think I read that you had try on XP and P3D, with publication of screens on XP. For P3D, what is your feeling and how to install it?

Hi,

P3D v5, which uses trueSKY, doesn't take light absorption from ozone into account at all, which is why it looks really green out of the box. While the coefficients aren't exposed just like MSFS, by editing the shaders I was able take ozone contribution into account in a freeware mod I released long ago, but it used the same inaccurate coefficients from the Hillaire's paper. P3D v6 on the other hand uses Unreal Engine's (Hillaire's) atmosphere implementation and you should be able to change the coefficients as they are exposed in a configuration file, I don't remember the name of the file but it should be in %AppData%/Roaming/Prepar3D v6. Firstly you should set the Rayleigh and Ozone scale parameters to 1.0 and then you can use the same coefficients in MSFS and XP12. However I'm unable to test it myself as I switched to Linux a while ago and P3D doesn't work in Linux, I only use MSFS and XP now.

Edited September 18, 2023 by Biology

[Tuskin38 6,532]

On 9/12/2023 at 10:21 AM, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Do you think Asobo will ever implement this in MSFS 2020 or even 2024? 

I would create a poll if I knew how ha! Not sure if you can in replies only? 

One of the Asobo programmers forked the github with the correct values, so they may be looking into it.

[captain420 3,099]

Does anyone know how to do this for the Microsoft Store version of MSFS?

[mobiel 72]

Maybe before updating to SU13 it does make sense to rebuild the origin .exe doesn't it?

[Mike_CFII_MEL 789]

2 hours ago, captain420 said:

Does anyone know how to do this for the Microsoft Store version of MSFS?

Hi,

Tried editing the store version, but was unable to find 0.00065, think we are out of luck for now. Ona good note, I'm vote # 800 on the MSFS forum.

Edited September 19, 2023 by Mike_CFII_MEL

[MrFuzzy 2,118]

1 hour ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Hi,

Tried editing the store version, but was unable to find 0.00065, think we are out of luck for now. Ona good note, I'm vote # 800 on the MSFS forum.

AFAIK the Store version is encrypted and the trick can be done only with the Steam version.

[lagaffe 203]

@Biology: Thanks for your answer !

PS: I worked 40 years as Linux Engineer 😎

[mobiel 72]

5 hours ago, MrFuzzy said:

AFAIK the Store version is encrypted and the trick can be done only with the Steam version.

No it doesn‘t work with Store version.

After copying the .exe to desktop as the instructions by LondonController on his discord I got a compability error after starting the game.
The new .exe seems to be a 16 bit application then but I do not know why.

I only changed the access to copying and moving the file to desktop.