Comments on: Clouds, Screws, and Settings

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:24:31 +0000

In reply to Markus. If you rename scenery packs, the updater will re-fetch them!

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:16:19 +0000

I rename my sceneries in order to keep a good oversight. I’ve done that with the initial install of the Aerosoft package, too. I kept some of their sceneries, I deleted some others because there is better freeware available.

Now I wonder if everytime I run the updater X-Plane will reload the Aerosoft packages? Or is this a one-time event with this update only?

(oh… and how is 64-bit coming along?) 😉

Markus

By: John

John — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:22:35 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik.

I hate to be such a noob but can you point me in the right direction…I need a foundation to work with…..

Pretty please with sugar on top….:-P

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:13:09 +0000

In reply to John. Yes, a plugin can render clouds, particle systems, cloud imposters, whatever you want.

By: John

John — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:27:39 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik.

Thanks for the reply,

I really want to run with this. Could a work around be as simple as rendering a high resolution image after the skycolor is rendered but before the terrain?

Maybe something a plugin could handle?

Keep in mind I am no programmer but I think with the proper guidance I could pull it off…. 😉

best,
John

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:22:35 +0000

In reply to John.

No – they can’t be customized. And they’re not just used “as textures” – I think it’s not that simple, so I don’t think this will work. you need imposter geometry.

By: John

John — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:48:48 +0000

Ben and Crew,

Quick question, is there a way to increase the size of the skycolor PNG’s? A config file or something. Been looking around and I do not see anything. Reason for this is I wanted to try billboarding onto the skycolors clouds using photoshop and the current sky textures are way too small….. 🙂

By: Patrick Bureau

Patrick Bureau — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:27:42 +0000

Very interesting article as usual.
My question might be off topic as well but, it would be very nice if Laminar had some kind of a message board to submit bug reports, a bit like JRollon does. First, we would be able to know if someone else experienced an issue. Second, this might limit the various submissions of the same bug by different people and third, people could comment or participate to a bug that was already submitted, adding technical details or screenshots to allow you to better understand the problems.

Also, another suggestion following this route:
I think there should be “bug report” section on the forum, but also an MR section “modification request”. I personally have submitted “bugs” that were not bugs but problems with the design in my opinion (refer to “runway visibility and edge lights intensity” bugs I’ve submitted).
I think they would belong to an MR section on that message board.

And I understand you already have a lot of work and that creating a message board would be more work for you.. Is there a reason why you prefer to go with an offline form ?

thank you
Patrick B.

By: Mutley10G

Mutley10G — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:58:01 +0000

Congrats – on my MBP mid 2009, with a fair amount of detail and screen res not set to full screen, I’m getting 25-30 fps – good going!

By: Chris Strosser

Chris Strosser — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:28:42 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Is the lowest cloud setting in Beta 6 higher than the lowest cloud setting in Beta 4? I only ask because I saw some performance degradation when moving from b4 to b6 on my two networked computers, both of which already have pretty low settings.