Thanks. i will try it. 😁

10 hours ago, Reset XPDR said:

Good news, 0.5.5.1-test2 is now available and includes Day/Night profile pairing. Since you've already set up IFR and IFR Night, you're most of the way there.

To answer your question, yes, Night Clouds/2 still works. On your IFR Night profile, set Night to Clds/2 and clouds will be reduced by 2 levels at night as before. The only difference is that TLOD halving isn't used on paired profiles, as your Night profile already has your night TLOD settings.

Please give it a try and let me know how it goes, including any issues or anything that doesn't feel right. Here's a quick guide on how it works:

Day/Night Profile Pairing - Quick Use Guide

What it does

AutoFPS automatically switches between two of your profiles: one for day and one for night. This lets you run completely different settings at night, such as lower TLOD, a different target FPS or different reduction settings, without touching anything in flight.

How to set it up

1. Tick Expert (pairing only works in expert mode).

2. Create two profiles with the same name, with one ending in “ Night”. For example, ‘IFR’ and ‘IFR Night’.

3. Both profiles show the ↔ marker in the Flight Type list once they are paired.

4. Set up each profile the way you want it for day and for night.

5. Start your flight on either profile. AutoFPS picks the right one for the time of day and switches automatically as day turns to night, and back again.

Night mode on paired profiles

• The day profile does not use Night mode at all, so its Night setting is greyed out.

• The Night profile only uses the cloud reduction part of Night mode (Clds). TLOD halving is not needed, as the Night profile already has your night TLOD settings. Set Clds if you want clouds reduced at night, or leave it Off.

• Your saved Night mode settings are kept and come back if you unpair the profiles.

Tips for smooth switching

• Use the same auto method and the same Manual/Auto/Fixed option on both profiles. AutoFPS then carries your current settings straight over at the switch. If they differ, it does a full reset instead, which you don’t want happening at dusk on short final.

• The status line and the log show Day or Night when you are on a paired profile, so you can see which profile is active at a glance.

Things to know

• In a flight, the pairing is always enforced. If you select the other profile of the pair to change its settings, AutoFPS will switch straight back. To change it, either exit the flight first, or temporarily rename the Night profile so it no longer ends in “ Night” (e.g. ‘IFR Nite’), make your changes, then rename it back.

• Use one kind of auto-switch per profile. A profile can only have one auto-switch partner (VR, Night or sim rate), so don’t mix suffixes such as ‘IFR Night VR’ or ‘IFR Night 2X’. If they are mixed, VR takes priority, then sim rate, then Night.

eg. Pairs set up then Daytime:

Auto-switching at Night time:

Incredible 😃

Because of my work I will make a TestFlight tonight. But quickly tried day / night and it worked flawkesly.

Frank

Frank Night

are my new Profiles for Day and Night switching.

What must i set in my Day profil for Night

OFF

Clds-2

Both

thanks Frank

1. Both profiles show the ↔ marker in the Flight Type list once they are paired.

it is not working for me. I make Frank and Frank Night and get no paring. 😇

6 hours ago, f.skywalker said:

Frank

Frank Night

are my new Profiles for Day and Night switching.

What must i set in my Day profil for Night

OFF

Clds-2

Both

thanks Frank

39 minutes ago, f.skywalker said:

1. Both profiles show the ↔ marker in the Flight Type list once they are paired.

it is not working for me. I make Frank and Frank Night and get no paring. 😇

These two questions imply that you have not yet updated to 0.5.5.1-test2 yet, because if you did:

1. On the day profile, the original Night setting would be greyed out like this, because this profile will never be used at night so that setting is irrelevant:

and on the Night profile you can make a Night selection, but only Off and Clds-2, because you set TLOD normally in the profile:

2. You would see the pairing markers ↔ and no number to the right of them if this is the first pair you have ever set up:

You will also know you have done it right as you will get the following message when the pairing is initially detected after you renaming the second profile correctly:

In short, make sure you are using 0.5.5.1-test2 and follow the instructions I provided in the original post.

Edited November 4Nov 4 by Reset XPDR

Thanks for your perfect guide.

Yes, I am using the latest version. Unfortunately, the pairing doesn't work. I renamed two of the provided profiles exactly as you described, but nothing happens.

39 minutes ago, f.skywalker said:

Thanks for your perfect guide.

Yes, I am using the latest version. Unfortunately, the pairing doesn't work. I renamed two of the provided profiles exactly as you described, but nothing happens.

Very strange. I just checked again with a brand new pair of profiles and it worked fine. The only things I can think of are an extra space or character after the word ‘Night’, or a lower case ’n’ in ‘night’. I just checked the lower case one and it doesn’t create a pairing. It should, so I will fix that in the next version!

Accordingly, please double check that you are using “Frank” and “Frank Night”, with a capital N in Night and no spaces or characters after either name.

If it still isn’t working, could you open the MSFS2024_AutoFPS.config file in the AutoFPS root folder, %appdata%\MSFS_AutoFPS (not the one in the bin folder), search for “Frank” and paste any profile name lines you find (there should be 2) into a reply here for me to look at. If it’s set up correctly, it will look something like this, although the number after ProfileName may be different:

  <add key="ProfileName1" value="Frank" />
  <add key="ProfileName2" value="Frank Night" />

Let me know how you go.

@f.skywalker FYI, 0.5.5.1-test3 is now out. It makes the profile pairing much more tolerant of spacing, capitalisation and language differences, so names like ‘Frank night’ or a space copied from a web page will no longer stop it from working.

Could you please update to it and give the pairing another try? Once it’s installed, you should see 0.5.5.1-test3 in the title bar of the app.

Let me know how you go.

Thanks for the input. It works after the update to Test3. Thanks, you’re perfect.

23 minutes ago, f.skywalker said:

Thanks for the input. It works after the update to Test3. Thanks, you’re perfect.

Well obviously not perfect, as it didn’t work properly the first time. 😄 But l am persistent, and we got there in the end. I hope you find this new mode useful!

Hi Reset XPDR,

Thanks you for amazing tool and all the effort you put into tis for the community. Much appreciated!

I am not much of a technical person and therefore have a question. In one of your recent posts you mentioned:

“One important thing to note: the feature is disabled by default after a fresh install or update. To enable it, open OFXR Bridge settings and tick Export status.json under the Display tab.”

IT must be my ignorance, but how do open OFXR Bridge settings to tick Export status.json?

Thanks in advance to make the effort to answer my question.

best wishes, Marco

 

 

@Reset XPDR

Today I tested the Day - Night profiles and it worked flawlesly. Thanks you for making our Flightsim experience so much better 🛫

8 hours ago, Kl4201 said:

Hi Reset XPDR,

Thanks you for amazing tool and all the effort you put into tis for the community. Much appreciated!

I am not much of a technical person and therefore have a question. In one of your recent posts you mentioned:

“One important thing to note: the feature is disabled by default after a fresh install or update. To enable it, open OFXR Bridge settings and tick Export status.json under the Display tab.”

IT must be my ignorance, but how do open OFXR Bridge settings to tick Export status.json?

Thanks in advance to make the effort to answer my question.

best wishes, Marco

 

 

In your System Tray, right click on the OFXR Bridge icon to bring up the context menu then select Settings:

Edited November 5Nov 5 by Reset XPDR
The editor here sometimes seems to post the last message I sent, not the one I actually posted. This was one of those times, so here is the correct message!

@Reset XPDR I just wanted to report that the day-night transition is very well done.

I’m still looking for a way to reduce the cloud resolution to "low" when in the night setting.

A super tool—I love it! Thanks for your patience with us.

Hi Reset XPDR,

Thanks for your fast repy.

However I am a bit puzzled.

I do not see the dropdown menu as depicted in your picture. I see the menu items: Disarm bridge, Frame Gen multiplier, Current binding eky; Pause frame generation, Current key binding, Optical flow backend, Optical flow resolutionm etc., but no Settings entry. Please advise?

Thanks in advance!

Marco