Brighter terrain, darker cloud shadows - DONE!

[Mooze 10]

Awesome! you are making us crying lol

[Pe11e 812]

Does look amazing but can you post some dusk or dawn shots - are the trees and buildings still to bright ? thanks 

 

Trees and building are not bright anymore, tested.

Currently tweaking sunset texture, will post in the screenshots forum as soon as I finish it.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

Trees and building are not bright anymore, tested.

Currently tweaking sunset texture, will post in the screenshots forum as soon as I finish it.

 

Awesome can you post your updated files - would be much appreciated - thank you for the work  :wink:

[molleh 451]

Thanks for your work Pe11e... please post up all your tweaked files when you're ready!

[bjratchf 80]

Following this!

[GSalden 4,657]

Applied tweak for darker autogen in the shade, adjusted haze hue and shadow color in sky_noon_x.bmp and this is the result, I think this is the most amazing visual setup I've done so far, it looks AMAZING:

 

 

 

 

Currently settled at 0.3 terrain shadows, and 0.5 autogen shadows.

Also after I enabled multiple visibility layers in ASN, suddenly haze and the whole ambient looks so much better, so much closer to the real life view from FL 350.

Maybe I should only lighten cockpit shadows a bit, but this is very close! I'm in heaven!

ASN and mult vis layers I have enabled too. It needs vol fog on to work though. I presume that you have it set that way.

 

What does the haze tweak add compared to ASN ( mult vis layers + vol fog ) as the last one also show a haze ?

 

And another thing about haze : in the default situation with ASN ( mult vis layers + vol fog ) the vertical haze changes when climbing above 17000-18000 ft. It almost disappears.

Is there a tweak for too ?

 

Keep up the good work :-)

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

I think there is no correct when it comes to tweak/mods like this. There only is 'I like it' or 'I don't like it'. And beside the tweaks a LOT depends on monitor settings (software as well as hardware). What may look awesome on one PC may look terrible on another because of this.

I totally agree. You are simply very right J van E.  For instance, I have a Samsung monitor, that has the Dynamic Contrast feature.  What this feature does, is parses contrast with each second, and automatically adjusts the brightness/contrast ratio to its best algorithm.  If I pan up towards the bright sky, it will change, If I pan down from looking above the plane it will change.  Then of course, when I snap a screen grab..depending on the settings of each other viewer's monitor...it will be either brighter, or darker than what I see, live time. Even the color saturation levels of each monitor comes into play.

 

Some have asked why my grabs are dark, or seem to lack the color saturation they feel should be seen there, by their preferences.  Well...on my system, it has been  adjusted to create my thoughts of what a virtual world should look like.  It might not translate out, upon the user's monitor, unless the O.P. had very bright and color saturated scenes to upload. 

 

I would say, that because of how I like a more natural, muted conservative tone to the virtual world, that when viewing my screen grabs...a user just adjust their brightness/contrast controls...until they see what suits them.  That's all you can do, really.  Then, there are those that like my shots just as they see them played out on their current brightness/contrast monitor settings.

 

 It all comes down to personal taste...totally....

 

Cheers,

[Jakub Compel 8]

 

The ratio in general.fx works also on 3D cockpit shadow, so if you set 0.1f, you'll need a lighter to find the throttle

 

Please can you tell me which line? 

 

thank you !

 

 please ..

[Novation 534]

it looks AMAZING

 

That does look very good. The haze is emulating scattering quite nicely, with that realistic blue tinge. You now have P3D looking a lot like XPX

 

Pre-dawn/post-dusk clouds with HDR are still an issue for me, but overall I feel this sim is looking great.

 

 

It would be nice if someone with enough skills could make something along the lines of FSWC to manage all these shader tweaks in a more usable way. It could be a nice little earner, if someone wanted to sell their work, like the authors of DX10 fixer and SHADE did.

[roland_lfor 245]

 please ..

Line 663, as written by KNOSSOS in post #79

I'm a little bit  lost with the haze subject:

- If I enable the Haze tweak, am I supposed to disable the Volumetric fog?

 

With both enabled, the far horizon haze is mostly blue, not very realistic.

 

Also with Vol fog disabled, I can see the haze straight limit with upon specific view direction (remember Fsx ).

[Jakub Compel 8]

Thanks Roland .. 

[Stefan Muehlemann 2]

Applied tweak for darker autogen in the shade, adjusted haze hue and shadow color in sky_noon_x.bmp and this is the result, I think this is the most amazing visual setup I've done so far, it looks AMAZING:

 

 

 

 

Currently settled at 0.3 terrain shadows, and 0.5 autogen shadows.

Also after I enabled multiple visibility layers in ASN, suddenly haze and the whole ambienzt looks so much better, so much closer to the real life view from FL 350.

Maybe I should only lighten cockpit shadows a bit, but this is very close! I'm in heaven!

 

 

Can you poste your new shader files, pease?

Does this shader have any impact at the performence?

[Pe11e 812]

Line 663, as written by KNOSSOS in post #79

I'm a little bit  lost with the haze subject:

- If I enable the Haze tweak, am I supposed to disable the Volumetric fog?

 

With both enabled, the far horizon haze is mostly blue, not very realistic.

 

Also with Vol fog disabled, I can see the haze straight limit with upon specific view direction (remember Fsx ).

 

 

I tested the haze with volumetric fog and default weather. With ASN haze lóoks much better with multiple visibility layers enabled. Also haze color strictly depends on the sky texture. So if you don't like the haze, install another sky theme from REX or else. I will include my custom sky textures used in these screenshots in the next shader pack.

 

Can you poste your new shader files, pease?

Does this shader have any impact at the performence?

I will release the new pack in the next 48h.

No impact on perormance whatsoever, unless you enable recieve shadow on autogen.

[WillsB3 1]

 

 

I tested the haze with volumetric fog and default weather. With ASN haze lóoks much better with multiple visibility layers enabled. Also haze color strictly depends on the sky texture. So if you don't like the haze, install another sky theme from REX or else. I will include my custom sky textures used in these screenshots in the next shader pack.

 

 

I will release the new pack in the next 48h.

No impact on perormance whatsoever, unless you enable recieve shadow on autogen.

 

Looking forward to the update Pe11e - Thanks

[bjratchf 80]

 

 

I tested the haze with volumetric fog and default weather. With ASN haze lóoks much better with multiple visibility layers enabled. Also haze color strictly depends on the sky texture. So if you don't like the haze, install another sky theme from REX or else. I will include my custom sky textures used in these screenshots in the next shader pack.

 

 

I will release the new pack in the next 48h.

No impact on perormance whatsoever, unless you enable recieve shadow on autogen.

 

I love your sky lectures, and sky textures.