MattDavies

Weird. Is anyone else seeing this issue? I personally am not - all we're doing is modifying some values.

Nothing has changed apart from the Water Tuning fixed. All 2.63 presets will work just fine - just re check the water settings and apply.

Hi all, I recently just made v2.64 of PTA available which fixes the "Water Surface Tuning" error. You can find the download via your order page on the SimTweaks website. I appreciate everyone's patience in waiting for the update, I know it can be frustrating when something doesn't work as expected. Thanks, Matt.

Enough now. You have your answers, keep your eyes peeled for any further updates developments and then take it from there.

Calling it self indulgent feels more like your way of justifying your initial "blather". I was asked for an explanation, I gave one, it wasn't good enough, so I went a little deeper. I don't particularly enjoy having to share the intricacies of my life with people just so they'll get off my case. I paid someone 50% of the agreed figure to convert PTA to a different language and then they took the money and ran. Thankfully they were pretty dumb and it was all done via Escrow so I got it all back. I am still looking for someone. Regarding 4.5, yeah NDA. I'm pretty good at proving people wrong - that's what I've had to do my entire life.

@fidiyikovo Before I answer your questions, let me be clear that PTA was the very first "business decision" i'd ever made in my life. It actually wasn't initially supposed to be anything close to a business, I just simply wanted to keep a tool alive that I used & enjoyed. I also made some mistakes in that process due to being extremely new to dealing with people & everything which comes with selling products. I have learned a tremendous amount over the last 3 years, all of which I will use to push myself and the rest of the team forward to success. We want to make the best software that is available to you - we're all immensely passionate about Flight Sim & to me, that's all that matters. So... 1) I'd never entered into any sort of "deal" like this before - It was a very spare of the moment decision because I didn't want to see a tool that was used by myself & so many die. I assumed (and wrongly so) that there would be people out there that had the knowledge to be able to continue develop it. Lesson learned (although I do feel there are people out there, it's just a case of digging deep for them). 2) Plan is to integrate it with Simstall (our eCommerce/distribution platform that we've been developing) and add a bunch of features that turn it into more of a rounded "tweaking" tool, add a community sharing section & some other cool features that we're yet to finalize completely. 3) I entered into a conversation with the Tomatoshade guy after I bought PTA. I wanted to work together with him but he declined saying he wouldn't ever have the time nor capacity to take on something like this. He also told me that Tomatoshade was a personal project between him & a few friends which would never make it to the public. It's shady. I don't like shady people. I also don't like being lied to. If he'd of been straight up with me then fair enough. I could go down the avenue of claiming that some of it is PTA's IP but it's really not worth it. I've tried to stop people stealing others work in the past and people find a way to spin it on it's head regardless of who is in the right or wrong. Nowadays I just go by morals & it seems not many people have them. 4) Thanks. I appreciate a sensible point of view - it's refreshing 5) It's running at a loss due to a variety of reasons. The first is that I got screwed over by a Wall Street "investor". Second to that, I had to rebuild the entire company because of what happened and thus we are now running at a loss. Hopefully the foundations we've now laid as a rebuilt team will mean we're only running at a temporary loss. In the grand scheme of things, PTA is a very small fish in my very big pond (I know that analogy is terrible). All of this has stemmed from one tweak not working and me perhaps showing my human side. If the tool was genuinely broken to the point of it being unusable I would pull it off the market until it was resolved. The sales from PTA has enabled great things - projectFLY being the primary visible one at the moment. We'll have a few within the year which will also showcase exactly where the money went. I know I don't need to justify what I do with my money but I understand that some people do listen to what I have to say and letting them assume I just blow my money on material word not allowed isn't something I want them to assume. I want them to know that it's absolutely worth investing in your future if you have the opportunity to do so. I'm not here to make enemies. I just want to do right by the community that essentially saved my life - whether people choose to believe/see it that way is up to them. Thanks.

Ironic that you're trying to impose "undisputed facts" when everything you've said has zero truth - it's simply you taking a wild guess at how I choose to live my life and spend my money. I have many flaws - I openly admit that on a daily basis. Actually I find it quite uplifting to be able to see my flaws and work on them instead of burying them deep away and hoping that they will eventually disappear (guess what? they don't). So let's break down your attempt to call me out. 1) I have NEVER confirmed that I purchased anything with the profits of PTA. Ironically, I just finished up my accounts last week and right now the company is running at a reasonable loss due to investments into developing products. 2) The ONLY time I've ever used PTA profits was to secure a loan for myself so I could have weight loss surgery, which saved my life. I used it as part of the loan application process to prove I could pay things back. 3) I have offered money (a beyond reasonable amount) to several people to develop PTA. Everyone seems super keen at first but then once they see the source code, they shy away. The industry is too small to have an abundance of shader devs. 4) Twitch is an awesome outlet for people like myself to actually interact with humans for a few hours a week. I live a very lonely life & having some time to chill/chat with fellow simmers is something I absolutely adore. I do not see it as wasting time. So there you go, what more can I say? I am doing the best that I can with an unfortunate situation. You are free to do as you wish in regards to which products you use. I am not here to try and convince you otherwise. Regardless of whether you proclaim to be a hater or not, you take a strangely stalker-like approach to me & my life. You seem to know a hell of a lot about me... well, you think you do. You're a very toxic person, Kevin. I guess that makes two of us... except I suppose I try to do right by the community now and again. I will do right by PTA, regardless of how long it takes me. Not victimizing, pointing out the facts. I speak my mind, sure. I've definitely insulted my fair share of people, however there's always a reason behind it. What can I say? I'm overly passionate. =============================================================== I am done discussing this now - I will post further updates as and when I have them.

It should be fixed within the next 30 minutes max. The entire server infrastructure went down about an hour ago and we're working to restore it. We're almost done now though.

"The silence is not looking good" At this point, silence is the only thing you'll get from me as I spend every day now being essentially harassed and stalked over my every move. I'd rather focus my time and energy trying to resolve this & the other problems that are now introduced because of 4.5 than battle with people on a forum who, well, I actually have no idea what motive they have... I guess everyone needs their punching bag in life - some people clearly found that here. Gerard makes a good point regarding using TS for the Water Surface Tweak - if it works in TS then awesome, the guy behind that clearly has an understanding of how shaders work to a larger degree than me. However, the chance of any sort of collaboration of knowledge is highly unlikely as the last time I spoke to him, he lied to my face. I tend not to trust people after they screw me once (sorry, bad experiences in the past). If anyone has any knowledge of how the HLSL works and would like to help out, i'd be more than grateful - an extra pair of expert hands would at this point be most welcome. Anyway, as always, when I have more news I will be the first to share it. I can't be bothered spending time reading toxic volatile comments - all they do is demotivate me which right now is something I do not need. Sorry for being human.

PTA needs to be able to write to the settings.res file in order to store the activation status. In order to do this, you need to give it administrative rights. The way to do this is to right click on PTA > Run as Administrator. You can then enter your key, activate it & it will not ask for your key on start up anymore.

Maybe the preset in question changes some of the P3D graphics settings (FXAA for example can induce some blurries)?

Try now 🙂

Are you running as administrator? I've had a look at the activation server and all seems to be working fine.

😍

I'll look into it but we're remaking PTA from scratch with some new methods, plus it'll have a code signing certificate attached to it which will eliminate any, as pdge says, "false positives".

Currently having it rewritten from delphi to C# so it can be then worked on by the right people. You've gotta take in to consideration that it's not an overnight job & it's also the Christmas Holidays. I'll post news when I have it. For now, just uncheck the broken tweak - everything else seems to be working fine.

I don't use HDR so nope 😄

It's most likely a permissions issue. How are you running it as administrator?

@Schlotterknie Glad you found a workaround although your attitude leaves a lot to be desired. I'm working on a fix as we speak.

I'll see if I can reproduce this.

Not yet. I still haven't figured out the actual problem.

I'll take a look into this & see if I can reproduce. Thanks for pointing it out!

Personally, I find that due to the way HDR has dynamic control of the ambient aesthetics, you can't get it consistently looking nice. It will look really incredible in certain areas then terrible in others whereas with HDR off, you can work from a nice looking preset with some neutral realistic sky textures & I personally like that approach better. Each to their own though 🙂

It's been reported and responded to in basically every thread over the last 2 days 🙂

That's now because you're not using the original shaders. Reinstall the client module only of P3D, then run PTA again (as administrator) and it'll work.