warchild
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Awesome.. I'm actually hoping that a repository can be created somewhere where we can all upload and share our personal presets..
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Awesome.. I'm actually hoping that a repository can be created somewhere where we can all upload and share our personal presets..
..I'm actually hoping that a repository can be created somewhere where we can all upload and share our personal presets..
I was hoping for that too, though so I could leech other peoples' presets, not upload my own...
oldpropfan
Charter Member
Jeansy, I just finished a flight using Shade earlier tonight and after seeing your post checked my cfg, all of my mods were still there. At least in my case it's not giving me back the default settings.
Al
hmm ok i just doubled checked mine and it did it again, dunno
i might re install it
I broke down and bought it. I must be reading more into this than most people because I don't seem to have caught on to the mechanics.
I want to load a preset, Mellow Yellow as an example and start FSX.
I must be really dense because I can't figure it.
I guess pain medication will do that to you.
Is this a simple 3 or 4 click process or does it take 50-60 clicks?
VCN-1
I want to load a preset, Mellow Yellow as an example and start FSX.
I must be really dense because I can't figure it.
I guess pain medication will do that to you.
Is this a simple 3 or 4 click process or does it take 50-60 clicks?
VCN-1
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
VCN-1, after you make sure to have read the manual:
1. Start the "Shade_GUI" program, by clicking on the desktop icon
2. Select 'Load Day 1 From Preset'
3. Select a preset and 'Open'
4. Select 'Clone Day 1' to apply the preset to each day of the FSX 10-day cycle
5. Close-out of the "Shade_GUI" program
6. Start the "Shade" program from the desktop icon, which will then start FSX for you
I hope this helps! And obviously this is the simplest, 'get in and go' routine. If you are happy with a preset that you have chosen, then all you need to do is start the "Shade" program to start FSX with the preset installed.
1. Start the "Shade_GUI" program, by clicking on the desktop icon
2. Select 'Load Day 1 From Preset'
3. Select a preset and 'Open'
4. Select 'Clone Day 1' to apply the preset to each day of the FSX 10-day cycle
5. Close-out of the "Shade_GUI" program
6. Start the "Shade" program from the desktop icon, which will then start FSX for you
I hope this helps! And obviously this is the simplest, 'get in and go' routine. If you are happy with a preset that you have chosen, then all you need to do is start the "Shade" program to start FSX with the preset installed.
In your shade folder, open shade GUI. Choose 'Load Day 1 from a Preset', towards the middle of the box and select your preset. Close shade GUI. Double click 'shade.exe' in the same folder, you should get a message that it's inserting into FSX, then it'll tell you it's starting FSX. That's it (hopefully).
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
I'm not sure which specific one will show the most changes, but "Winter Chills" is my favorite of all of the presets I have looked at, trying to reach the most authentic, real-to-life look. Having said that, I have also modified "Winter Chills" into one of my own presets, correcting a few attributes that weren't quite how I would want them.
To answer your question in a different way, "Winter Chills" will give you enough to notice a change. If you are looking for the most difference applied to scenery/terrain, it is easiest to see this at dusk and dawn hours. However, the effect works all day and night within the sim, and during mid-day, you will see that your aircraft has much more shading applied to its surfaces that are not in direct-light, than there would be with the default FSX shading.
To answer your question in a different way, "Winter Chills" will give you enough to notice a change. If you are looking for the most difference applied to scenery/terrain, it is easiest to see this at dusk and dawn hours. However, the effect works all day and night within the sim, and during mid-day, you will see that your aircraft has much more shading applied to its surfaces that are not in direct-light, than there would be with the default FSX shading.
Gizmo has release a "default presets" file on OZX : http://aussiex.org/forum/
Love it....
Hey Guys
Sorry about not dropping by in the past day or so ive been working on some stuff for 1.01 this morning and i got dragged out to help fix some wind damage this afternoon (had the tail end of hurricane katia hit the UK earlyer this week) Again thanks for the fantastic support you've shown for this little app and for each other
@jeansy
Not sure why your getting a FSX.cfg reset???? Shade doesnt touch the FSX.cfg file in anyway shape or form,can i ask are you running any other kind of FSX autostarting app or making any changes to the insim options? (you dont have that texture load reset service running by any chance do you ?) also have you checked to see if the Cfg is getting re-seting without you running shade.exe?
Is anyone else seeing this re-seting cfg problem here? i havent received any reports of this from anyone else,i dont see it and it never came up in testing very strange but hope we can find out what the cause is though
Cheers
steve
Sorry about not dropping by in the past day or so ive been working on some stuff for 1.01 this morning and i got dragged out to help fix some wind damage this afternoon (had the tail end of hurricane katia hit the UK earlyer this week) Again thanks for the fantastic support you've shown for this little app and for each other
@jeansy
Not sure why your getting a FSX.cfg reset???? Shade doesnt touch the FSX.cfg file in anyway shape or form,can i ask are you running any other kind of FSX autostarting app or making any changes to the insim options? (you dont have that texture load reset service running by any chance do you ?) also have you checked to see if the Cfg is getting re-seting without you running shade.exe?
Is anyone else seeing this re-seting cfg problem here? i havent received any reports of this from anyone else,i dont see it and it never came up in testing very strange but hope we can find out what the cause is though
Cheers
steve
Thank you.1st impressions.
Did a quick read through and hit the shade gui. Opened a desert preset.loaded and then ran the exe which loaded fsx. At KEDW I quickly noticed it was lighter and a tan tone. I was dying to see some shadowing effects but cannot find any ???
Loaded a couple others,verified shadows in FSX graphics was on. Ran to some mountains and still see no shadows.
This is mid day, KEDW and otehr 3rs parties are Active Sky EVO, FEX and ULT.
Its getting late but I am still waiting for that one magic screen to appear so its off to more tweaking.
Edit- Ok Im feeling it now. I have played with a few lighting programs and alot turned sunset into mars and all around looked like a comic book. This one "at least the presets" are less dramatic and realistic, a good thing. From what I see this is a sunset flyers and screenshot artist dream. For me I will probably set it and forget about it. I have a new 40 inch led that super bright and bleaching the graphics. I am going to try and use this prog to enrichen the colors and add some surprises to each day.
Did a quick read through and hit the shade gui. Opened a desert preset.loaded and then ran the exe which loaded fsx. At KEDW I quickly noticed it was lighter and a tan tone. I was dying to see some shadowing effects but cannot find any ???
Loaded a couple others,verified shadows in FSX graphics was on. Ran to some mountains and still see no shadows.
This is mid day, KEDW and otehr 3rs parties are Active Sky EVO, FEX and ULT.
Its getting late but I am still waiting for that one magic screen to appear so its off to more tweaking.
Edit- Ok Im feeling it now. I have played with a few lighting programs and alot turned sunset into mars and all around looked like a comic book. This one "at least the presets" are less dramatic and realistic, a good thing. From what I see this is a sunset flyers and screenshot artist dream. For me I will probably set it and forget about it. I have a new 40 inch led that super bright and bleaching the graphics. I am going to try and use this prog to enrichen the colors and add some surprises to each day.