RealismShaderPack v1.1

[basementflyguy 156]

That's hilarious. On a flight back from Iceland two weeks ago, I paid very close attention to cloud shadows and the shading/brightness of clouds :smile:

Yup. I've done the same on commercial flights. On thing I noticed yesterday is that structure shadows are always darkest, and that the ambient humidity affects the brightness of the terrain and lightens the cloud shadows as well. Maybe that's for RDP V 3.7 in 2018 ...

[ErichB 3,651]

Yup. I've done the same on commercial flights.

I also sometimes snigger when flying into London's typical overcast as I wonder whether the crew have toned down their weather settings to make the arrival experience somewhat smoother. :smile:

[sightseer 895]

...On thing I noticed yesterday is that structure shadows are always darkest, and that...

That's what I call 'self shadowing'. Its when a cloud gets big enough and/or dense enough to block light from its own inner regions. usually the surface will reflect more at the same time because theres more ice in the water vapor(in the upper regions). This will sometimes happen with smaller clouds if the weather is right but often the smaller clouds are more foglike. They have to grow to start reflecting and self shadowing. and the direction from which you see them plays a role as well. Cloud appearance is greatly influenced by whats behind it from your perspective. A cloud that appears really dark up against a very light lower sky can appear fairly bright against a darker background.

[Beardyman 609]

I have occasional flashes - any remedy for that ?

[IanHenry 10]

When using the Shader Pack everything was great until I tried to fly in the U.K. I use the Horizon/Playsim photo scenery and JustFlight's Revolution X for autogen, but since installing the Shader Pack all my U.K autogen has disappeared, despite the relevant files still being in the photo scenery folders! Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

 

Ian 

[Raven9000 272]

The only "drawback" of this tool is: the bug inside P3D with the shadow drawing depending upon the viewpoint and -angle is more pronounced now

Yes, I agree. This REALLY annoys me.. it's as if the whole thing (sim) was broken...

[Pe11e 812]

The only "drawback" of this tool is: the bug inside P3D with the shadow drawing depending upon the viewpoint and -angle is more pronounced now

 

Hmmmm, never noticed that bug with the shadow drawing. I'm now interested to see how it looks like and when it happens, probably depending on bunch of variables.

[Cruachan 705]

When using the Shader Pack everything was great until I tried to fly in the U.K. I use the Horizon/Playsim photo scenery and JustFlight's Revolution X for autogen, but since installing the Shader Pack all my U.K autogen has disappeared, despite the relevant files still being in the photo scenery folders! Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

Ian

 

Hi Ian,

 

When you restore the P3D default files using the RSP tool does everything return to normal? Failing that, have you tried reinstating the backup of the ShadersHLSL folder. Hopefully you did create a backup. This advice has been offered in several posts in this thread as a guaranteed way of recovery should something not work out as expected. Remember, this utility has been offered for testing as version 1.1rc. As such it is still in Beta, so you are using it at your own risk. Accordingly, it's very important to ensure you have created all the relevant backups before experimenting.

 

Having said all that I am not sure that Pe11e, the author, had photoscenery in mind when he developed this lighting enhancing utility. So far, I think it is probably fair to say that most of us have experienced very few significant problems, if any. Indeed the transformation to P3D has been quite remarkable! So, it seems likely that something unique to your installation has contributed in some way to the issues being experienced.

 

The utility, as I understand it, is only designed to modify certain files in the ShadersHLSL folder - four, I believe - so the disappearance of your UK autogen is baffling. Is there an entry for Revolution X in P3D's Scenery.cfg file? Is it still active in the Scenery library?

 

Regards,

Mike

[Pe11e 812]

As Mike said, I did not tested RSP on photoscenery for a very good reason - I don't have any!  :smile:

[Mike A 347]

Thanks to the RSP I spent a good portion of a 45 minute drive across Texas today looking at and anyalyzing the qualities of cloud and structure shadows. I know nobody on the planet outside of this forum would probably appreciate this.

Oh, yeah?  Check it out (I'm a member)  https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

 

Mike A.

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

Oh, yeah?  Check it out (I'm a member)  https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

 

Mike A.

Were you excited when the new cloud type was approved by the WMO?  :wink:

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/10/10/undulatus_asperatus_a_new_cloud_type.html

[basementflyguy 156]

Oh, yeah?  Check it out (I'm a member)  https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

 

Mike A.

That's fantastic.

 

As for photorealistic, RSP works just fine with Mega Utah and Mega PA, at least for me.

[kevinfirth 1,417]

RSP works fine for me with the Horizon UK photoscenery, with treescapes and custom autogen.

[AnkH 2,282]

Hmmmm, never noticed that bug with the shadow drawing. I'm now interested to see how it looks like and when it happens, probably depending on bunch of variables.

 

Some people do recognize it, some do not. I bet it is there always. There were already some threads about this here and over at the Prepar3d forums, here is a video illustrating the issue (or one of them), the video is not my own:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxm_Iml2gRg

 

this also happens much closer to the aircraft, so it seems not to be related to the shadow drawing distance. In my case, I notice it often when using the 3rd person view of my plane, it can happen that in the cockpit view, the coastline in front is in bright sunshine while it suddenly has a cloud shadow on it after switching to the outside view. Rare, but annoying. Anyway, wrong thread here...

[Fi5kuS 57]

Some people do recognize it, some do not. I bet it is there always. There were already some threads about this here and over at the Prepar3d forums, here is a video illustrating the issue (or one of them), the video is not my own:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxm_Iml2gRg

 

this also happens much closer to the aircraft, so it seems not to be related to the shadow drawing distance. In my case, I notice it often when using the 3rd person view of my plane, it can happen that in the cockpit view, the coastline in front is in bright sunshine while it suddenly has a cloud shadow on it after switching to the outside view. Rare, but annoying. Anyway, wrong thread here...

 

 

I have the same issue. Have a bunch of videos and pictures illustrating the problem, but I have been to lazy to post it. "Glad" someone else did, as it shows a bug in P3D.