Misc good and bad weather SUITE 2.5.2

[Peter Boese]

WIP Sol:

some random screens of today

 

[Jayenn]

Amazing stuff. Is cloud coverage still static or can it be changed dynamically?

 

[Peter Boese]

Amazing stuff. Is cloud coverage still static or can it be changed dynamically?

It's dynamic. I played with a dynamic weather change and it already works, but it needs some optimizations for dynamic texture loading. So I think it will not be part of the first release, but it will come. If controlling and customisation of this is really usable, then it will be part of Sol...

 

[Billy Pilgrim]

My clouds are moving but a bit too fast. How do you slow that down?

 

[Peter Boese]

My clouds are moving but a bit too fast. How do you slow that down?

Just lower the Wind speed...

 

[Amir Vodokotlic]

That looks incredible.

And seeing in x4fab changelog.

Future support for stars, moon etc

 

[Phil Dufour]

Hi,

first post here .First of all, congratulations Peter for this superb "tool" .Since the beginning i´m a big screenshot fan .
Since a while i´m chating with Kelnor34 (many of his screenshots are present on the official AC forum).
On my side i run on a single screen (1929x1080 59,99HZ) ,for the screenshots but normaly on triple screen (5760X1080) for "races".
I run a computer with a 1080TI and a I7 4770K, so i asume that i have all needed to get good graphics performance using in game all graphics setting to high and ultra.
I use also RESHADE 4.02 and all the files that comes in your __extras folder ( shaders patch and the gbwS_reshade.INI)
Etc....

Kelnor has the setting has i have .We have been trying the same place,track, time and weather and there is always a huge difference on the result (@Peter Boese you also get a perfect clear, deep result : https://i.imgur.com/R8pX1iP.jpg)

Let´s compare our last test :

He re is Kelnor:

Here mine:

The same difference are visible on cars details etc.....
I´ve been trying everything but sure i´m missing something somewhere....
Maybe here someone will send me directly to the point i´m missing .
In advance thanks for your help.

 

[Peter Boese]

Hi,

first post here .First of all, congratulations Peter for this superb "tool" .Since the beginning i´m a big screenshot fan .
Since a while i´m chating with Kelnor34 (many of his screenshots are present on the official AC forum).
On my side i run on a single screen (1929x1080 59,99HZ) ,for the screenshots but normaly on triple screen (5760X1080) for "races".
I run a computer with a 1080TI and a I7 4770K, so i asume that i have all needed to get good graphics performance using in game all graphics setting to high and ultra.
I use also RESHADE 4.02 and all the files that comes in your __extras folder ( shaders patch and the gbwS_reshade.INI)
Etc....

Kelnor has the setting has i have .We have been trying the same place,track, time and weather and there is always a huge difference on the result (@Peter Boese you also get a perfect clear, deep result : https://i.imgur.com/R8pX1iP.jpg)

Let´s compare our last test :

He re is Kelnor:
View attachment 279412

Here mine:
View attachment 279414

The same difference are visible on cars details etc.....
I´ve been trying everything but sure i´m missing something somewhere....
Maybe here someone will send me directly to the point i´m missing .
In advance thanks for your help.

Hi, for the first look it just seems the main "issue" is the fog distance or blend value. Does kelnor modified anything there? I don't know if fog is dependent of FOV. In kelnor's picture FOV is much smaller. The weather is "broken clouds"? So the fog seems right on your picture. .

 

[Peter Boese]

Hi,

first post here .First of all, congratulations Peter for this superb "tool" .Since the beginning i´m a big screenshot fan .
Since a while i´m chating with Kelnor34 (many of his screenshots are present on the official AC forum).
On my side i run on a single screen (1929x1080 59,99HZ) ,for the screenshots but normaly on triple screen (5760X1080) for "races".
I run a computer with a 1080TI and a I7 4770K, so i asume that i have all needed to get good graphics performance using in game all graphics setting to high and ultra.
I use also RESHADE 4.02 and all the files that comes in your __extras folder ( shaders patch and the gbwS_reshade.INI)
Etc....

Kelnor has the setting has i have .We have been trying the same place,track, time and weather and there is always a huge difference on the result (@Peter Boese you also get a perfect clear, deep result : https://i.imgur.com/R8pX1iP.jpg)

Let´s compare our last test :

He re is Kelnor:
View attachment 279412

Here mine:
View attachment 279414

The same difference are visible on cars details etc.....
I´ve been trying everything but sure i´m missing something somewhere....
Maybe here someone will send me directly to the point i´m missing .
In advance thanks for your help.

Same temperature?

 

[Phil Dufour]

Hi Peter,
thanks for the support.

Yes we´ve been sharing in real time the same settings (hours, gbw cloud, ppfilter etc )

 

[Peter Boese]

Hi Peter,
thanks for the support.

Yes we´ve been sharing in real time the same settings (hours, gbw cloud, ppfilter etc )

There must be more different. The ppfilter could not be the same. Kelnor has a vignette. In your picture there is no one.

Same settings in gbwSuite_config.lua?

The colors look different too.

Same settings in "drive menu". Maybe "use custom weather's ppfilter"

Reshade setting the same?

 

[Phil Dufour]

Ok,

let´s try something. Do you remember what time it was on this pic and wich GBW was ?



I´ve just done a fresh reinstall. I will use de GBW Reshade.INI

 

[Billy Pilgrim]

I don't know if this is question about gbW suite or for Content Manager or the Dynamic Shaders. But I'll try here anyway as the advice is always good . Thanks, Peter

Since using the dynamic shaders I have nice exhaust glow and brake glow when using some weathers and not others. I get this nice glow with some mod weathers (I don't remember who made them) and not with others. I don't get this nice glow with GBW Suite and I think I don't get it with the original weathers it seems.

Any advice on this? Am I missing something?

 

[Peter Boese]

I don't know if this is question about gbW suite or for Content Manager or the Dynamic Shaders. But I'll try here anyway as the advice is always good . Thanks, Peter

Since using the dynamic shaders I have nice exhaust glow and brake glow when using some weathers and not others. I get this nice glow with some mod weathers (I don't remember who made them) and not with others. I don't get this nice glow with GBW Suite and I think I don't get it with the original weathers it seems.

Any advice on this? Am I missing something?

gbwSuite is modifying the PPFilter when 2 options are set:

If "Use custom weather's PPfilter" is activated (CM->settings->content manager->drive)
and
if "ppfilter__modify_glare = true" is set in the gbwSuite_config.lua in the gbwSuite folder.

First try to set "ppfilter__modify_glare = false". Then the Glare section is not modified.

 

[Billy Pilgrim]

Thank you.

"ppfilter__modify_glare = false" seems to have worked.

 

[Peter Boese]

WIP Sol

So here is the last missing important part of the new weather FX by Ilja - FOG.
The new fog shader is solving some annoying problems with AC's current fog algorithm.

First i split the term into 2 fields.
Haze = the main blue shift and dullness in the distance, which mainly characterizes a condition or weather
Fog = really dense waterfilled air

So i adapted Ilja's new shader to get the right haze with different temperatures:
0°C

10°C

20°C

30°C

40°C

And then i integrate a routine to additionally paste in fog - which will then be a modulator for the whole scene. Here is a little video, which shows a transition from nice warm to cold foggy weather -- just 2 modulators are changed, temperature and fog_density:

 

[Peter Boese]

WIP Sol:

This is a first test of dynamic weather effects. The camera height is used as a modulator of Sol's fog. Later this will be part of the calculated realtime weather effects.

 

[Leonardo Ratafiá]

it looks like iRacing is copying your stuff

 

[Peter Boese]

it looks like iRacing is copying your stuff

Maybe someday AC has dynamic clouds too. With increasing cpu/gpu power its very possible.

 

[Peter Boese]

WIP Sol:

This is a rough comparison between Sol, "mid clear" and "few clouds" from the gbwSuite 2.5.2. While the AI is driving, i switched on/off the new weatherFX shaders, which were setted to a weather on a nice day with some clouds.
So the Sol PPFilter is used, which is trimmed for a clean picture. The weather's custom PPFilter of gbwSuite are not activated for the comparison.