NOTAM about new update released yesterday:

Small corrections in dusk colours.

New HDR adjusts (with Rogen help).

No more pink horizon with EA and 2D cloud set.

Link is the same above. 👆

Thank you very much Alexandre and Rogen for your work and the adjustments obtained. There is a notable improvement compared to the default processing.

The airplane cabins are a little dark in the latest settings.

Edited April 12, 20242 yr by JMLUCIA

4 hours ago, JMLUCIA said:

The airplane cabins are a little dark in the latest settings.

Hi thanks for your report and glad you see notable diference with the adjustments.

There was no alterations in the parameter that (I think) is involved in diffuse light and the always dark cockpits. I adjust to obtain more 60% diffuse light and, stills the same, since first version. 

Still tuning the shaders, looking to reduce the way overdone default haze and generally improving the lighting.

Haze reduction results (default haze, Active Sky off), now clear skies are in fact pretty clear for viewing.

 

Cockpit view with Activesky on, using uncharted2 tonemap, haze reduction, Alexandre's TrueSky clouds, modded DHC2 with RXP GTN 750 and Roland's WX radar in use.

Just gotta correct one more thing relating to the horizon shading and I'll be happy with the modded v5.3 colouring schema.

Cheers

Looks great @Rogen

Edited April 27, 20242 yr by Ray Proudfoot
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Made some nice updates in volumetric clouds configuration file and small adjustments in HDR with help of Rogen.

There are some adjust in HDR that, in my opinion, depends on personal taste and your monitor. 

In line 176 the exposure_bias could be adjust if you see too bright white clouds at the day. In associate with the line 200 the factor plus the exposureBuffer could be rise up if you think your cockpit is little dark. 

Some pictures of the new clouds are here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QfP7jYELbGTudH1T6

File: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w2eYeEtwFjMR1bWXSt6_BOGZw08Ak2zM/view?usp=drive_link

I have been thoroughly impressed and am enjoying your shader mods. But, there is one exception...it is the dark cockpit panel in Manfred Jahn's DC3. I do know there have been panel shading issues posted by others elsewhere, including the P3D forum. 

I hope you can give me some advice on a setting to correct this...thanks...

 

Sherm

Edited August 4, 20241 yr by shermank
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On 8/4/2024 at 2:47 PM, shermank said:

I hope you can give me some advice on a setting to correct this...thanks...

In the thread above @Alexandre Blumberg wrote:

In line 176 the exposure_bias could be adjust if you see too bright white clouds at the day. In associate with the line 200 the factor plus the exposureBuffer could be rise up if you think your cockpit is little dark. 

This is related to the HDR.hlsl file.

Otherwise in Chaseplane is an option to lighten up the cockpit.

Dan

Thanks Blaunarwal,

Some adjustments along the lines you suggested helped

Sherm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 7, 20241 yr by shermank

Hey @shermank,

I've been working on tuning based on the Uncharted2 tonemapping, available to trial if you'd like.

 

Edited August 9, 20241 yr by Rogen

Thanks Rogen, I am interested in trying out your work. Currently, I am working with blaunurwahl's suggestions combined with Envshade...but, I am a tweaker, sometimes to my disadvantage...:-)

 

Sherm

On 4/27/2024 at 2:40 AM, Rogen said:

how did you manage to make the sky so clean? Will be great if you post tutorial about it. 

Sorry, 

But where exactly is the link to download these clouds?

On 8/9/2024 at 9:58 PM, shermank said:

Thanks Rogen, I am interested in trying out your work. Currently, I am working with blaunurwahl's suggestions combined with Envshade...but, I am a tweaker, sometimes to my disadvantage...:-)

Sherm

Envshade does make many changes to many of the shader files where typcially it would assume a default shader set when it initially applies.

These are also based on a default series of shaders, meaning ideally you'd first backup your current ShadersHLSL folder, then replace the contents with default contents, again backup the newly defaulted ShadersHLSL folder, then apply these modified shader files and again backup.

With the multiple backups it is possible to swap easily from one set to another by replacing the contents of the actual ShadersHLSL folder with the contents of the chosen backup.

e.g. 4 x folders

• ShadersHLSL.default
• ShadersHLSL.Envshade&Custom (your current shader set)
• ShadersHLSL.Uncharted2
• ShadersHLSL  (this is the actual in use folder for cleanout and copy of the backups into for trialling).

Don't forget to clear the shader cache after making changes.

The archive name is "ShadersHLSL_P3Dv5.3.17_v1.1.6_2024-08-11.zip" and can be downloaded here.

The files contain both Alexandre's and my work where there is kind of a fork between our goals as mine was a little different (for example I hated the overwhelming haze even on clear days).

If you want you swap between the Uncharted2 and ACES tonemaps, in HDR.hlsl line 22 is the control definition, just comment or uncomment the line to make the change.

The next thing I intend to look at is the water colour as the default is way too black and doesn't merge well with addon scenery, not too sure what that might involve but we'll see what comes of it.

Any questions please ask and let me know how you get on.

Cheers

P.S. anyone else can also give them a trial if they like.

 

 

Edited August 11, 20241 yr by Rogen
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