[MOD] High quality clouds in Low preset

[Dutch2]

I swapped this mod back in JSGME and now it all looks sharp in VR. Using the Lunifeste mod, maybe that interferes with this mod. 

 

[Gora_]

Change cloud sample to 256 in the file for all of the sets. It helped me a lot with stuttering.

[Dutch2]

3 hours ago, P_Gora said:

Change cloud sample to 256 in the file for all of the sets. It helped me a lot with stuttering.

 

I do not have stutter but Minecraft clouds. 

[Gora_]

Hmm, so I think you've reached the limitation of the current cloud engine... 

[Avyx]

That's the only clouds mod for IL-2 BoX ? 

Thank you 

[Dutch2]

Thanks but I already deleted this cloud mod, brings for me, only bad effects using in VR. 

Edited March 3, 2019 by Dutch2

[Panzerlang]

Having such a high setting is supposed to be unworkable apparently, even on a monitor. I installed this mod last night and tested it in VR (8 v 8 QMB) where it worked superbly. No discernible FPS issue at all.

Thank you Coco.

[BP_Lizard]

This is amazing. Thank you very much, Señor Coconut.

[Algy-Lacey]

On 8/15/2018 at 12:32 AM, LizLemon said:

 

Yes, the ski.ini file has a line for sun and ambient brightness. This value only affects the clouds.

 

Hi LizLemon,

 

I prefer the look of your clouds settings in the screenshot above, more grey at the base of the clouds...

 

Please can you tell me where to find the ski.ini file in my Il-2 Sturmovik directory? And which settings does one adjust?

 

Thanks,

Algy

[LizLemon]

3 hours ago, Algy-Lacey said:

 

Hi LizLemon,

 

I prefer the look of your clouds settings in the screenshot above, more grey at the base of the clouds...

 

Please can you tell me where to find the ski.ini file in my Il-2 Sturmovik directory? And which settings does one adjust?

 

Thanks,

Algy

 

You have to extract the games .gtp archives using this tool - http://www.mediafire.com/file/caxpalaudz1hd47/unGTP-IL2.zip

 

Just drag and drop each .gtp archive into that executable then you will get a (null) folder where ever thing is extracted. Inside that folder go to graphics/sky/summer. That folder will contain all the sky presets, in folders like 00_clear_00, 00_overcast_00. Inside that is the sky.ini file. The lines you will want to experiment with are;

 

OpticalDepth=0.7 //I like 1.0

SunBright=0.6     // Clouds lighting
AmbientBright = 0.43,0.41,0.47

 

[Algy-Lacey]

Running on my 1080p monitor everything looks smooth. Clouds mod looks good. Settings on Balanced with the other graphics settings the same as when I last flew Il-2 in VR.

 

However, when using my monitor I have a slight problem with shimmering tree textures / outlines, but I did make some adjustments to gpresets.cfg for clouds and forrest quality which I will play around with and see if I can eliminate the shimmering. This is with in-game Antialiasing set to 2. This experimental flight was before downloading Oculus / Oculus Tray Tool and trying VR, so it can't be a problem with SS or Pixel Density...

 

Can anyone help me get rid of the shimmering?

 

And 1 other question regarding this mod, what should I set the clouds' effects_samples to? Currently 0.75

Edited July 3, 2019 by Algy-Lacey

[LizLemon]

1.0 would be best iirc

[ironk79]

Coconut - would it be possible to create a mod just for saturation settings? I used your mod in the past, also changed saturation in the gpreset.cfg down to 0.8 for my rift, much better and natural colours.

But now i play on normal ultra settings, since my PC can run it, only thing that bothers me are the over saturated colours in VR.

Tried to configure with the gpreset.cfg, it still somehow messes clouds up (shimmering like on low settings), even though no parameters are left in the gpreset.cfg

Would be very much appreciated ?

Edited November 30, 2019 by ironk79

[rowdyb00t]

@ironk79

   Try this gpreset and change the saturation line in preset 3 to your liking 

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=79372

[ironk79]

18 hours ago, rowdyb00t said:

@ironk79

   Try this gpreset and change the saturation line in preset 3 to your liking 

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=79372 687 B · 28 downloads

It works, thank you! But i couldnt find a difference to coconuts gpreset.cfg at first glance.

Edited December 1, 2019 by ironk79

[sysprog]

Coconut,

I have just tried this mod to try and fix all my cloud issuues and it works brilliantly and looks great the only thing is the mist/rain effect going through a cloud seems to have disapered.

is this a setting within the vr config or have i miised something ?

[rowdyb00t]

On 12/30/2019 at 8:13 AM, sysprog said:

Coconut,

I have just tried this mod to try and fix all my cloud issuues and it works brilliantly and looks great the only thing is the mist/rain effect going through a cloud seems to have disapered.

is this a setting within the vr config or have i miised something ?

 It’s possible that some lines in your gpresets have been changed. What preset are you using ie. 0,1,2,3 ?

   Also post effects and post drops enable should be Set to to true I believe. Check to see if these are enabled in 2 and 3. 

[Avyx]

Great clouds - weather

It looks amazing

[sysprog]

Hi  rowdyb00t,

thanks for that, I haven't had chance over the last few days  to investigate

but i will try over the coming weekend.

 

happy new year.

 

EDIT:

 

I found the problem...after checking everything and couldn't find a problem..

 

it was user error... I was flying in winter, no water in clouds but snow, swapped to summer and low and behold water droplets back

 

what an idiot.  ?

Edited January 3, 2020 by sysprog
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