skyhawka4m
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going to go buy this now....looks great
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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
Shade is released !
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warchild
Charter Member
There was some discussion yesterday about Shade making things too dark, and i wanted to show you that that just doesnt have to be the case.. I made my own preset yesterday ( took me a whole ten minutes cuz its all laid out in color selection blocks ) and then i went chasing thunder storms in the mouse.
Now, before i post these i want to explain something about camera's.. you see, I know that what you see when you walk outside and look at a car or plane or anything really is one thing, but even if you used the finest camera on earth, it wouldnt see the same thing. Thats because the human eye can see OVER 2000 levels of brightness and contrast. Film, regardless of whether its silver or digital is limited to only a fraction of that by its very nature. So, all images in the end, look unreal. Dont believe me?? Look at any photograph. Does it look real?? no, it looks like a picture. Thats because not all the information is there. Several hundred levels of light and contrast are missing.
So, that means, that Shade, although an amazing piece of software, is limited by the camera in which you view it through. Theres no way to make something look exactly real, but, within its limitations, it can do some pretty remarkable things pretty easily..
Pam
And thank you.. I love Our P-61 to death. Hope you all do too when its completed..
Now, before i post these i want to explain something about camera's.. you see, I know that what you see when you walk outside and look at a car or plane or anything really is one thing, but even if you used the finest camera on earth, it wouldnt see the same thing. Thats because the human eye can see OVER 2000 levels of brightness and contrast. Film, regardless of whether its silver or digital is limited to only a fraction of that by its very nature. So, all images in the end, look unreal. Dont believe me?? Look at any photograph. Does it look real?? no, it looks like a picture. Thats because not all the information is there. Several hundred levels of light and contrast are missing.
So, that means, that Shade, although an amazing piece of software, is limited by the camera in which you view it through. Theres no way to make something look exactly real, but, within its limitations, it can do some pretty remarkable things pretty easily..
Pam
And thank you.. I love Our P-61 to death. Hope you all do too when its completed..
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
Here are some notes about using Shade, and making your own settings...
Each day in FSX, there are 14 different individual lighting/shading conditions, from Pre-Dawn to Post-Sunset/Midnight. When making your own values for light and shade, you must individually create/adjust both the light and shade values for each of those 14 different conditions throughout the course of a day in FSX. In creating the values, you are provided the entire PC color spectrum palette, including the lightness/darkness slider, and red/green/blue and hue/sat./lum. value boxes. This allows you to, individually, adjust how dark you want the shade, or how bright you want the light, for any time of the day, with as little to, or as much change, as you could want. When you are done establishing the look you want for one day, you can individually set a different look for any of the other days within the FSX 10-day cycle, or you can simply clone the first day to all of the others.
For instance, last night I worked on making my own preset - which admittedly took a bit longer than 10-minutes. What I did was use the default-FSX lighting/shading condition values as there would be without Shade running (which it provides you to see!), and I copied that same value, by simply copying the color numbers provided. But then I made each of the shading values a bit darker, and each of the light values a bit lighter, so as to provide more contrast than there would be by default. As a result, I was able to directly control the amount of extra light and extra shading that there would be, individually for each time of the day.
When you have so much room to play with, you can spend quite a while I am sure, adjusting until you reach just that right look you want, or at least something close to it. Your choices will also obviously depend on the sky textures you have installed, which will vary in lightness/darkness/color themselves, so one profile of Shade settings will not look as proper with one set of sky textures, as they might with another. However, Shade makes it quite easy, in that it shows you an image of the sky texture installed, for each time of the day, so the values you pick, especially color-wise, you can work to match to the sky texture.
For me, personally, I am most interested in making the under-belly shadows on aircraft darker than what default FSX provides, which to me, from both seeing first-hand, and within countless photographs for however long I have been, isn't near enough. Shade allows you to improve this, but also by offering you all of the options available, it can very easily go too far as well.
Each day in FSX, there are 14 different individual lighting/shading conditions, from Pre-Dawn to Post-Sunset/Midnight. When making your own values for light and shade, you must individually create/adjust both the light and shade values for each of those 14 different conditions throughout the course of a day in FSX. In creating the values, you are provided the entire PC color spectrum palette, including the lightness/darkness slider, and red/green/blue and hue/sat./lum. value boxes. This allows you to, individually, adjust how dark you want the shade, or how bright you want the light, for any time of the day, with as little to, or as much change, as you could want. When you are done establishing the look you want for one day, you can individually set a different look for any of the other days within the FSX 10-day cycle, or you can simply clone the first day to all of the others.
For instance, last night I worked on making my own preset - which admittedly took a bit longer than 10-minutes. What I did was use the default-FSX lighting/shading condition values as there would be without Shade running (which it provides you to see!), and I copied that same value, by simply copying the color numbers provided. But then I made each of the shading values a bit darker, and each of the light values a bit lighter, so as to provide more contrast than there would be by default. As a result, I was able to directly control the amount of extra light and extra shading that there would be, individually for each time of the day.
When you have so much room to play with, you can spend quite a while I am sure, adjusting until you reach just that right look you want, or at least something close to it. Your choices will also obviously depend on the sky textures you have installed, which will vary in lightness/darkness/color themselves, so one profile of Shade settings will not look as proper with one set of sky textures, as they might with another. However, Shade makes it quite easy, in that it shows you an image of the sky texture installed, for each time of the day, so the values you pick, especially color-wise, you can work to match to the sky texture.
For me, personally, I am most interested in making the under-belly shadows on aircraft darker than what default FSX provides, which to me, from both seeing first-hand, and within countless photographs for however long I have been, isn't near enough. Shade allows you to improve this, but also by offering you all of the options available, it can very easily go too far as well.
warchild
Charter Member
Your right John.. and I'm actually beginning to view shade not so much as a correctional utility, but a pallet and canvas on which to create. When i set up my preset yesterday, i simply set all the lighting and shadows to the way i see light and shadows on a daily basis by looking out the door.. It wasnt perfecty believe me, but i was impressed enough that i want to work on it more.. I'm also thinking of tackling the worst lighting conditions i know of.. Tornado and hurricane weather.
::lol:; its a hell of a paint Kit.. Thank you Gizmo
Pam
::lol:; its a hell of a paint Kit.. Thank you Gizmo
Pam
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
Here's another shot of the Skywagon over PNW, using the "Winter Chills" preset during the late evening.
And on a pass-through Seattle harbor in the Spit, during mid-afternoon, with the same preset.
And on a pass-through Seattle harbor in the Spit, during mid-afternoon, with the same preset.
I just took my first flight with it and I'm extremely impressed! The best part wasn't how it affected the scenery, but how it affected the airplane. The VC basically now has shadowing without having to enable it in the FS menu. Sure it doesn't have the same effect as the VC shadowing but that's fine. It also makes the shadowing on the exterior of the aircraft a lot better as well.
Awesome utility for an even more awesome price! Well done!!!
:salute:
Awesome utility for an even more awesome price! Well done!!!
:salute:
YoYo
SOH-CM-2023
So sorry, but cant stop doing screenshots with this tool ! 
The last in full version: http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5522/shade19.jpg (no edited)
The last in full version: http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5522/shade19.jpg (no edited)
warchild
Charter Member
Veracrux Mexico, as we speak
THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO HAS ISSUED A HURRICANE WARNING FROM TUXPAN TO VERACRUZ. THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO HAS ISSUED A HURRICANE WATCH FROM SOUTH OF VERACRUZ TO PUNTA EL LAGARTO. SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT... A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR... * MEXICO FROM TUXPAN TO VERACRUZ
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THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO HAS ISSUED A HURRICANE WARNING FROM TUXPAN TO VERACRUZ. THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO HAS ISSUED A HURRICANE WATCH FROM SOUTH OF VERACRUZ TO PUNTA EL LAGARTO. SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT... A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR... * MEXICO FROM TUXPAN TO VERACRUZ
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warchild
Charter Member
heheh.. sorry. its my favorite plane, especially flying into hurricanes. At only a couple thousand pounds less than an empty c-27 its footprint is only a third the size making extremely stable in adverse conditions.. The worlds first official storm chaser.. ..
but really, what i'm trying to show off isnt the plane, its the extreme latitude you can achieve with Shade.. Modeling that exact sickening green color you get in a supercerll storm ( tornado and oddly hurricanes too ) is majorly difficult, but as you can see, i got pretty close on my first try.. just need to darken it a bit.. When i can look at it and it triggers my ptsd I know i got it right..
..but really, what i'm trying to show off isnt the plane, its the extreme latitude you can achieve with Shade.. Modeling that exact sickening green color you get in a supercerll storm ( tornado and oddly hurricanes too ) is majorly difficult, but as you can see, i got pretty close on my first try.. just need to darken it a bit.. When i can look at it and it triggers my ptsd I know i got it right..
ryanbatc
Charter Member
It's looking good! Will it be payware?
