Stary

Hi gang, one of the reasons I sort of stopped caring for the series couple of years back and went my way of not flying combat flight sims was plethora of controversial movements by TK around 2010-2013 period -followed by lack of QOL updates and Thirdwire's focus on mobile market that followed; one of these design decisions was locking clouds altitudes at unrealistic and immersion killing levels of over 14-16k feet ASL which made game less of a fun or challenge turns out solution was very simple hack of vertex shader in ENVCLOUDS.FX which you will find attached in this post, just drop it into your mod's Flight folder, overwrite if asked tested with stock clouds, SARCASM 1.5 and excellent Menrva's realSKY Environment -which I am looking at modding a bit on my end technical blurb: this is simple vertex shader hack that pushes the vertices of clouds plane meshes downwards in world space by user-configurable value: const float4 P = mul(float4(input.pos.x,input.pos.y,input.pos.z - 1900, 1.0), g_mMeshToWorld); // position, world-space where 1900 is world-space units (= meters), all the hack does is feeds the shader skewed z (z being height in SF series, as things should be) value of course there are some issues with intersecting with close range terrain meshes (near_scene) so visual glitches might ensue at times but that was the reason TK pushed them up in the first place Also, if this or other method was posted earlier apologies, haven't looked around much the forums. Cheers, Stary ENVCLOUDS.FX

Thank you for the opportunity to be part of the experience Tio Enocito! And again, keep the socks

those were there since day one IIRC, just modulation options built in, I was fiddling with those for some different trees graphics blending options for soem test treemods back when, never found them usable, nice to see those actually do have some use on certain materials/textures

so is it out yet? find the trainers to be best bang for the buck in DCS for me

well this is very crude shader tweak, messing with avionics -without even saying what specifically?- is different level and frankly out of scope of my interest

this is most likely cheap 2002 era solution, puzzling given EAW had transparent see-through clouds layers (but not on overcast)

interesting, will take a look, busy IRL ATM

Thank you

Well on my end clouds disappear at times near borders but it's standard bug related to calculating what camera can see, nothing to do with this hack. Sadly only TK could fix some things...

so Win10 when eh? tumbleweed? tumbleweed! prepurchased it and somewhat am not suprised it isn't here yet :insert suprised pikachu face: MiGMan_Flight_Sim_Museum -BTW pleasantly suprised to see a legend from modem times way back here, cheers!- made excellent points the biggest offense are the lighting and atmosphere, terrain I would argue still works in the tiled variant as titles like Falcon BMS or Vector Thrust show, it's the matter of polishing things there and ofc the big elephant in the room is lack of presence on Steam and GOG

looking at his repo, seems intriguing what would improve the sim big time is going from stencil shadows to soft shadowmaps, man I need to hack in different flagging for inside views classes (cockpits) to cast shadows

Hello Menrva! yes I seen the new fitting color in ODS 30, splendid job all the team! as for clouds I don't see much that can be done apart from extending their draw ranges and minimizing flicker/disappearances out of camera frustrum, which I have looked into and might have some tweaks -with the sacrifice of number or size of the individual clouds, sadly, but that is something I might look into in my limited spare hobby time.

hello my name is Mek and I haven't been here in quite a bit that's nice, really nice please work on it

View File Super Mystere B2 cockpit Version 1.3 posted, read the changelog. I strongly suggest you keep the 1.2 version backed up in case you don't like certain aspects of changes introduced in 1.3 (specular effect you might find too excessive) -------------------------------- Super Mystere B2 cockpit To install unpack to your Super Mystere folder, overwrite when asked have fun Stary Submitter Stary Submitted 02/28/2016 Category Jet Cockpits  

regarding SF2 future discussion, check this one out: http://www.56.com/flashApp/out.14.01.07.a.swf?player_key=v&from=out&vid=MTA0NjU3NDkz&ref=simhq.com&swfhost=www.56.com&loading_deco_version=off

View File F-94B cockpit (proper) This is correct 360-degree F-94B cockpit, to replace my earlier F-94C Starfire released in 2015 (as we lack Starfire model still...) unpack to your F-94B folder, overwrite when asked (you might want to delete replacement cockpit folder first if exists any) Submitter Stary Submitted 02/28/2016 Category Jet Cockpits  

View File India/Pakistan Hi-res tileset This is set of satellite based 1024x1024 tiles created for India/Pakistan terrain by Deuces and Wrench Best to be used in dedicated India/Pakistan (AKA "Wings Over India") stand alone mod, but can be added to any install that has India/Pakistan map added into it. This pack assumes you do have installed and tested (flown over at least once) "Indiapak" map. Right now TODs and their placement is as they were for original terrain release, but they do work quite well. Also given the scope of the terrain portrayed and it's physical diversity I had to make some compromises. Submitter Stary Submitted 12/15/2011 Category Tilesets for Terrains  

Just for clarification, Stary is the younger looking guy We had awesome time with Derk and his family, thank you!

Why have I never thought of that old school touch and go rearming/refill? Must be memory leaks. @NIELS I very much understand your stance mate but the amount of work and the can of worms issues it opens when you factor in AI, mods ability etc is really big. Also the maps are really really compressed as Menrva points out. There are more important things if you want to attract new players, like lack of polished 3d hangar plane selection/loadout management scenes ye olde Novalogic sims / Aces High style etc. TK sort of heads in that direction with mobile offsprings but it is more due to differences between engines used. The SFP1 one doesn't really allow that, sadly. Interesting thing with that F-16 cockpit view in SFMC mobile reinforcement pack though, sort of if like TK is testing new ideas there.