• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

SuperSky 2010 beta1

P

PeteHam

Charter Member
Has anyone tried this yet ?

Pete.


[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Miscellaneous Files[/FONT] [FONT=verdana, sans-serif]New! [/FONT] [FONT=verdana, sans-serif]SuperSky 2010 beta1 [/FONT]

[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Images related to this file:
[/FONT]

[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]
sendfile.php
[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]File Description:
Supersky 2010 adds texture to produce a realistic picture of spectacular quality of the sky, especially sunrise and sunset. Click on number 1 image. This is a real sunset (no FS2004, this is a true photo). Now click on the next images. This is SuperSky 2010! With supersky 2010 and fs2004 you too can now experience this natural atmosphere of the "real" sky. For the best flying experience with SuperSky 2010 I recommend first installing the wonderful addon HDE2 BY PABLO DIAZ (great Pablo!). [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Filename:[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]supersky_2010_beta1.zip[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]License:[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Freeware[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Added:[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]22nd December 2010[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Downloads:[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]380[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Author:[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Aldo Bulgheroni[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Size:[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]890kb[/FONT]
[/FONT]
 
Yes, I was curious so downloaded them tonight and tried them out. I had been using the sky colors from Pablo Diaz' High Definiton Environment 2 (HDE2). Well, according to the readme for SuperSky, these textures are inspired by Pablo's HDE and in fact contain some of the textures from HDE. I assume by permission since he thanks Pablo in the readme....

Anywho, my first impression is quite favorable. These textures lend a little bit deeper blue to the sky than I was getting from HDE2, more of a peach/orange/purple at duskand a bit pinker morning sky at dawn.

Overall I am quite impressed, and I think I am going to stay with these sky colors over the HDE ones.

~A~
 
Pablo's sky textures have been converted to FSX so I could test them. The colors are nice but sometimes it lacks a little bit of colors, especially for sunsets for example. The colors in the screenshots above are more impressive, in my opinion.

In FS9, the best experience I ever had with the sky was thanks to the freeware FS Skyworld 2004, which I consider as the freeware ancestor to REX. It has a nice graphic interface that lets you choose between several sky colors for day, dusk or dawn, and you install the textures with a single click.

I miss this tool a lot in FSX, where only the clouds work (sky textures are incompatible) :/
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top