Clouds ground shadows

[GOZR]

It would be very good if the clouds ground shadows would be darker , more pronounced like in real.. this give a great effect and sense of reality.  I made a mod long ago for DCS adding darker clouds ground shadows .. they listened and they made it .. look much better so I can imagine for IL2 it would be a great benefit. 

[G_GART]

You can do it yourself, just use unGTP-IL2.exe and extract Sky.gtp, find the folders (summer and winter)

.. \ graphics \ sky \ summer and

.. \ graphics \ sky \ winter from extracted files, inside these folder you have different weather config .ini files for each weather variety, open these files and find "shadows = 0.8" this determines the Contrast of clouds shadows on the terrain, increasing its value (for example, shadows = 2.0) will give darker clouds shadows. I do not know how much you can increase this variable! maybe to 2.0 or 4.0, do a mod

and test it. or download my test mod here>>> https://www.mediafire.com/file/kqom93jewc11btw/Darker_Cloud_Shadow.rar/file

Just unrar(extract) foder named "Darker_Clouds_Shadows" to your MODS folder, it works if you choose "02_medium_07" in MB as cloud config.

If you want a mode for all weather conditions you should change this variable in all .ini files that are in the folders summer and winter!

 

NOTE: This mode will not work if you have another cloud mode, you must first deactivate your cloud mode if you use one!

Good luck

 

[GOZR]

Thanks ,  Noted if I do this I have to use Mods and cannot connect to regulars servers ..  This is a subjects we talked on DCS a long ago and now it's main stream.. it need to happen for Il2 .. there is no depth as for now..   

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3314242/

 

The rest is History 

[rowdyb00t]

If you make the shadows more that 1.0 they will be darker than all objects shadows. For example, if you are on a runway under a cloud shadow, the outline for the plane shadow will be lighter.