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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Bloom from Russia

Ok, to try the field of depth, like in the screenshots I posted, change these values in your .ini: (this will reduce FPS, but they are optimized to provide the lowest FPS hit possible)

[EFFECT]
EnableDepthOfField=1

[DEPTHOFFIELD]
DOFQuality=2
DOFNumberOfPasses=1
DOFFocusRange=10
DOFBlurinessRange=10

(If you find you do not like the effect and want to disable it, you can simply change EnableDepthOfField to a value of "0" instead of "1" so it reads like EnableDepthOfField=0)
 
The part that excites me the most here is the DoF, as i see it as not only being able to add more realism, but to better obscure and hide lack of detail/blurs at distance.

And as luck would have it i got myself a brand spanking new GTX 280 last week! :woot:
 
ok so i tried it i wow sweet :woot: looks sweet i am going to keep testing it and seeing how my recent OC of my GPU likes it but so far its great

Ryan
 
Is any one else getting the message in the FSX window see pic, pretty cool, its shows the author in green letters and then in red letters tell you to configure yourself. Pretty cool

Bill
 
Well, unfortunately I haven't been able to progress far with the bloom settings. It seems that the post effect applied kinda saturates the whole screen rather than individual bright areas. That bleed over effect that I showed in the other pictures I am really unsure how to get. Part of this may be being rendered by the simulation through the CPU, which is why I am unable to adjust it here.
 
Ok, I am exhausted. Occlusion seems to work, but takes a big bite out of FPS. Shadows do not work as far as I can tell. Reflection doesn't seem to work, AND it takes an FPS hit. No motion blur. No water effects (which they don't really apply to this game anyhow...).

Field of Depth, Occlusion (not worth it, honestly) and bloom seem to be the only things that work.

FOD seems to take a decent chunk of FPS. Your mileage may vary.
 
I find the aircraft are to dark in bright day light as well, where can I turn those setting down?
 
CodyValkyrie said:
Ok, I am exhausted. Occlusion seems to work, but takes a big bite out of FPS. Shadows do not work as far as I can tell. Reflection doesn't seem to work, AND it takes an FPS hit. No motion blur. No water effects (which they don't really apply to this game anyhow...).

Field of Depth, Occlusion (not worth it, honestly) and bloom seem to be the only things that work.

FOD seems to take a decent chunk of FPS. Your mileage may vary.
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Thanks for checking all of this out, Cody. I did give the Field of Depth setting a try and found the frame hit not worth the eye candy. It wasn't a bad hit, but just enough to notice, which settled the matter for me. Regardless, the "bloom effect" is well worth the effort to install and tweak this ingenious tool.

noddy, try these settings under the COLOR CORRECTION section of the .ini file:

[COLORCORRECTION]
DarkeningAmountDay=30
ScreenLevelDay=70
ScreenLevelNight=1
DarkeningAmountNight=-30
GammaCurveDay=0
GammaCurveNight=-2
ColorSaturationDay=0
ColorSaturationNight=0
UsePaletteTexture=0
 
Interesting on the night setting Rudi. Does the negative value actually darken the cruddy FsX night sky?
 
Any chance to have this with DX10? Can´t afford DX9 for FPS issues, but some of this really looks good, I really liked the color saturization, as I tested in DX9....
 
Mr.Mugel said:
Any chance to have this with DX10? Can´t afford DX9 for FPS issues, but some of this really looks good, I really liked the color saturization, as I tested in DX9....
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That's a good question. My understanding is that the .dll is made for DX9. Couldn't hurt to try however.
 
Roger said:
Interesting on the night setting Rudi. Does the negative value actually darken the cruddy FsX night sky?
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Actually Roger, quite the opposite. With the exception of DarkeningAmountDay=30, all of his settings are default here as far as I can tell.

I screwed with them last night. A positive value for night actually makes things a hell of a lot darker. Much like you lowered the value Roger, which made the contrast from brightness to darkness less perceptible, a negative number saturates the screen.

The nice thing about this is that at night with a value of -30 it provide enough light to make night flying more fun. It feels a tad too saturated however. I suspect a value of -25 or -20 to perhaps be a bit better. As far as I can tell, adaptive brightness is not really effective at night so all we are doing is adjusting the values of brightness and contrast essentially.

Now, there are some other values there that potentially can help eliminate some of the over saturation, but I'm still playing with them. I would recommend however if you are brave to try it yourself. After tweaking for 6+ hours, I was not necessarily satisfied with my results.

Perhaps it is a Russian secret? The website helps, but the broken english sometimes confuses what each value really does.
 
CodyValkyrie said:
Scan it ;)
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I did that; Symantec AV says it's ok. But what if it's a ultra-sneaky, under-the-radar stealth virus, designed to target and disable the computers of NATO's mightest intellectuals (who inevitably gravitate toward flight simming)?

I started college when the Cold War was still hot. The joke at Stanford was that Tetris -- another Russian program -- was a Commie virus. It didn't harm your computer, but it did keep you from studying. I was immune to that one.
 
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