Realistic Clouds

[FurphyForum]

Yep, thanks for the journey with this mod.

It was good to see that the Devs recognised your work and talent and you were rewarded for it, by it being officially implemented into GB 

[BladeMeister]

2 hours ago, rowdyb00t said:

Hey guys. I deleted the downloads in the OP. Old clouds won’t work any longer. 

So does this new in game cloud tech mean that you will not be able to tinker with the new clouds further if you were so inclined to? Just curious, and also rowdybOOt, did you

 

have a hand in the new cloud tech development? And lastly,

THANK YOU SO MUCH

for the cloud mods that you have provided for the community over these past few years, Your diligence of continually trying to improve these mods to the best that you could possibly develop always upped the ante for TGBS. Your cloud mods have been my number one install after each and every update to TGBS.  Do you have any graphics settings favorite for this new tech? Ultra?

 

S!Blade<><

[Stonehouse]

Just an fyi for those who might have tweaked things. Looking at the new gpreset.cfg cloud samples are 64 across all graphic presets.

[rowdyb00t]

1 hour ago, LeLv30_Redwing said:

Yeah, great work you did with the mod, I enjoyed using your clouds in my films. Are you going to mod these new clouds also or are you part of the team now, only working with the "official" clouds?

 
 

 

1 hour ago, BladeMeister said:

So does this new in game cloud tech mean that you will not be able to tinker with the new clouds further if you were so inclined to? Just curious, and also rowdybOOt, did you

 

have a hand in the new cloud tech development? And lastly,

THANK YOU SO MUCH

for the cloud mods that you have provided for the community over these past few years, Your diligence of continually trying to improve these mods to the best that you could possibly develop always upped the ante for TGBS. Your cloud mods have been my number one install after each and every update to TGBS.  Do you have any graphics settings favorite for this new tech? Ultra?

 

S!Blade<><

  Thanks guys, The current release of clouds is from the dev team. I’m working with them on making more for each preset. 

[itsbillyfrazier]

Thanks a lot Rowdy, I've really enjoyed the journey with this mod and certainly appreciate all the time and effort you put in to improve it with each version.

 

I hope you will continue modding the sim in some form or other, I'll be sure to follow any further projects you decide to do.

 

 

[MajorMagee]

I'm seeing a lot of obvious color banding in some of the new 4.701 clouds, but then again I'm only seeing them from below in Tank Crew...

[SCG_motoadve]

10 hours ago, rowdyb00t said:

 
 

 

  Thanks guys, The current release of clouds is from the dev team. I’m working with them on making more for each preset. 

Your mod looked better, some of the new clouds look pretty bad from above, like an ice cream melting without the cone and round edges, pretty unrealistic.

[MajorMagee]

On 12/9/2021 at 5:35 AM, MajorMagee said:

I'm seeing a lot of obvious color banding in some of the new 4.701 clouds, but then again I'm only seeing them from below in Tank Crew...

The only thing I found that was effective in reducing this was using Reshade's Deband shader.

[Stonehouse]

On 12/9/2021 at 10:46 PM, SCG_motoadve said:

Your mod looked better, some of the new clouds look pretty bad from above, like an ice cream melting without the cone and round edges, pretty unrealistic.

I found I liked the new clouds better on high than extreme. Also with Rowdy's mod I found that effect would happen when I set the cloud samples too high in gpreset.cfg in case you had a tweaked version of that file still in play.

[Denum]

Hey Rowdy, 

 

Since you're pretty intimate with the clouds, 

 

Is there a way for people to revert to the old clouds?

 

I know there's only a handful of them, but with the GPU shortages it might be almost necessary for them to keep playing. 

[rowdyb00t]

3 hours ago, Denum said:

Hey Rowdy, 

 

Since you're pretty intimate with the clouds, 

 

Is there a way for people to revert to the old clouds?

 

I know there's only a handful of them, but with the GPU shortages it might be almost necessary for them to keep playing. 

   Denum, 

 

  Unfortunately they won’t work with the new cloud engine. I’ve tried but no dice. I’m really surprised that some folks are having trouble. I’ve had a huge fps increase. I read your reply in the other post. Maybe I’ll chime in. 
 

Wonder why SLI causes issues with the clouds?

Edited December 12, 2021 by rowdyb00t

[rowdyb00t]

Brought back some of the sky and light from the old mod. More to come later!

 

 

[Mysticpuma]

Would it be worthwhile creating a new thread? 

I look forward to seeing your work on improving the lighting. 

[Beebop]

I thought the skydome was too light blue on the summer maps for my taste so I went inside the folder to data > graphics > sky and minused (-) the 'summer' folder. 

Now I get a richer blue sky on summer maps and the pale blue sky w/white snow on winter maps.  ?

?

 

(let's see, you make such an improvement to the original game that the Dev's incorporate it, then you improve on that! ?)

 

1st screenie Stock Summer Velikiye Luki map.

2nd screenie Sky Mod Winter Velikiye Luki map.

[Wilhelm_Heidkamp]

Any possibility of getting the presets.cfg file from the latest patched game with the new developers clouds? I would like to try something...

[rowdyb00t]

3 hours ago, PA_Willy said:

Any possibility of getting the presets.cfg file from the latest patched game with the new developers clouds? I would like to try something...

   The presets seem to be exactly the same as before the update. 

[Wilhelm_Heidkamp]

With old clouds, they were using 64 on preset. Your cloudmod with modified gpresets was using 128.

 

In new patch with new clouds, developers are using 128 or 64???

 

Thanks.

[Stonehouse]

64

 

edit - added stock file. Note that the .txt is just so I could attach it to the forum post. You'd need to remove this and make it gpresets.cfg to make it usable in game.

gpresets.cfg.txt

Edited December 28, 2021 by Stonehouse

[inbeat777]

No download link for this mod?

 

[LukeFF]

47 minutes ago, inbeat777 said:

No download link for this mod?

 

They're in the game. 

[BladeMeister]

3 hours ago, LukeFF said:

 

They're in the game. 

Here let me fix that for you LukeFF.

 

 

They're in the game!

 

Now maybe everyone that comes to this thread will know, 'their in the game'.

 

S!Blade<><

[Chris65]

I was going to post "the clouds in the game look pretty good to me why do we need these", I guess this is why they look good!  BZ!

[Uufflakke]

A couple of days ago I saw a short interview with the director of Horizon Forbidden West, the follow up of Horizon Zero Dawn, and she said they hired a programmer to solely focus on programming clouds. For four years.

Can you imagine...

[Goffik]

2 hours ago, Uufflakke said:

A couple of days ago I saw a short interview with the director of Horizon Forbidden West, the follow up of Horizon Zero Dawn, and she said they hired a programmer to solely focus on programming clouds. For four years.

Can you imagine...

 

In one way it's not surprising, because of the sheer complexity of modelling the way clouds work in a computer game. It'll take some serious knowledge and effort to get right. On the other hand, it is surprising because Horizon is nothing to do with flight simulation... so why bother having uber-realistic clouds in the first place? Sounds like a total waste of time, money and effort that could have been spent on improving more critical systems required by an RPG.

 

To me it's another example of the all-flash-and-no-substance approach so common in game development these days.

[WillyWacker]

On 1/13/2022 at 1:29 AM, BladeMeister said:

Here let me fix that for you LukeFF.

 

 

They're in the game!

 

Now maybe everyone that comes to this thread will know, 'their in the game'.

 

S!Blade<><

are they in the game? really? :D

[-332FG-Cue-Ball]

Now that new clouds have been in the game for quite a while now, it's time to un-pin this topic?

[Goffik]

21 hours ago, -332FG-Cue-Ball said:

Now that new clouds have been in the game for quite a while now, it's time to un-pin this topic?

 

You could say the same for at least three of the stickies here, but perhaps they've been left up for posterity? The authors did contribute massively to the sim, after all, and some of them are now actively working for the devs. I don't see the problem with preserving the history by keeping the stickies, personally.

[Vishnu]

This thread needs to be deleted. @MisterSmith

Edited January 28, 2023 by Vishnu

[=SXT=DreamWarrior730]

It looks really nice.

[Shotgunuser]

wheres the download link

[LukeFF]

30 minutes ago, Daveplaysgames said:

wheres the download link

 

They're in the game by default.

[taffy2jeffmorgan]

Well try as I might I cant find the little box with the words " data link "  I'm on the first page and scrolled down all the screen shots and there is no link at the bottom of the last picture ?    where's Walley ??

 

Cheers

[MajorMagee]

5 hours ago, taffy2jeffmorgan said:

Well try as I might I cant find the little box with the words " data link "  I'm on the first page and scrolled down all the screen shots and there is no link at the bottom of the last picture ?    where's Walley ??

 

Cheers

Why do you think there would there be a link there when it was withdrawn ages ago? Once again, this Mod was made part of the base game, so there is no independent Cloud mod available anymore...

[taffy2jeffmorgan]

Thanks for the up to date information, 

[Nars]

I remember using a "Grey Sky" version of this. I don't think those changes made it to the official game, as the effect was quite dramatic and maybe unrealistic.

Would it be possible to have the option to get that MOD back up for download?

 

Some screenshots and videos can be found around page 10.

 

Thanks! @rowdyb00t

 

[rowdyb00t]

On 10/17/2023 at 12:40 PM, Nars said:

I remember using a "Grey Sky" version of this. I don't think those changes made it to the official game, as the effect was quite dramatic and maybe unrealistic.

Would it be possible to have the option to get that MOD back up for download?

 

Some screenshots and videos can be found around page 10.

 

Thanks! @rowdyb00t

 

 Hey Nars,

  Eventually I plan on revisiting this. I have quite a bit of stuff built but not complete ( plan on another mod). My computer has been put up for some time because I built a house and I’ve been working out of town literally two years straight. I’ll be back soon. I have some pics of some grey sky examples and other things the cloud engine is capable of. 

[rowdyb00t]

I couldn’t find any pics where I changed the sky with the new tech, they might be on my pc. These are some examples from working on it from way back. I haven’t been on for a couple years so maybe some things have changed in the sky files. 
 

[Alan_Grey]

It looks amazing ! 

[Alan_Grey]

Anything new rowdyb00t?

[rowdyb00t]

19 hours ago, Alan_Grey said:

Anything new rowdyb00t?

 Not yet, but hopefully diving back into this soon.