branislavmilic Posted July 8, 2017 Report Share Posted July 8, 2017 These rays appear in the gap made by clouds below the plane. But God Ray's appear in front of the plane. I would like to use these rays but I have a hard time trying to avoid that they appear in front of the plane. I make cinematic clips and that is important to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameron Posted July 9, 2017 Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 This may be a draw order issue which cannot be worked around due to limitations on X-Plane. I cannot say for sure. Frank will know more. Then again, the sun also appears higher in angle and this may not be a bug or limitation at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundog Posted July 9, 2017 Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 (edited) Yes, this is an algorithmic limitation of how "god rays" work. They are a screen-space effect, so they must assume some constant depth relative to the camera. It's just yet another trade-off we have to make in real-time computer graphics to get the performance we need. By default, the rays are configured to just draw over everything in the scene. As Cameron pointed out, depending on the angle of the sun and how much atmosphere is between you and a given object, that's not necessarily wrong. But it is possible to adjust the depth of the rays, by editing the resources/plugins/silverlining/resources/silverlining.config file in a text editor. Look for the crepuscular-rays-depth setting. Please note that we can't provide support once you start messing around with config settings, however - be sure to save a backup of the original config file so you can restore it if things go horribly wrong. Edited July 9, 2017 by sundog 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
branislavmilic Posted July 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 Thank you for your reply. I'm on Mac and the only way I could edit the config file was to change its extension to .txt. Unfortunately when I saved the file and put again its extension to .config, no clouds appear in the sim. How to edit the config file without changing its file property? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundog Posted July 9, 2017 Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 13 minutes ago, branislavmilic said: Thank you for your reply. I'm on Mac and the only way I could edit the config file was to change its extension to .txt. Unfortunately when I saved the file and put again its extension to .config, no clouds appear in the sim. How to edit the config file without changing its file property? I'm not really a Mac guy, so I'm not sure what might have gone wrong there. My guess is that whatever editor you used didn't really preserve the text file format. Even text files are different between Mac and PC, and this file was created on a PC. You'd probably have to edit it on a Windows system (right click / open with... wordpad would do the job) or find a text editor app on MacOS that promises not to ruin Windows-style text files when saving them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
branislavmilic Posted July 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 Found the tool that does the work: Text Wrangler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
branislavmilic Posted July 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 Value of 0.5, effectless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
branislavmilic Posted July 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 Value of 0.9 (almost, we're getting closer) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
branislavmilic Posted July 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 Value of 0.99 — Much better. I don't even understand why you didn't put 0.99 as the default value! Now I can redo all my videos...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundog Posted July 9, 2017 Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 Glad you got the results you wanted. That's not the default setting, because not all objects are close to the camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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