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SkyMaxx Pro 2.0 Clouds at night


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No X-Plane Limitation in general. If you darken your skycolor sets (the two boxes at the bottom of the skycolor.png) you will get pitch black clouds at night. I tuned all my skycolors, using GIMP.

Unfortunately it doesn't work for Skymaxx as far as I know. If Skymaxx or X-Plane is to blame for this - I don't know.

 

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Flo

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The annoying bright clouds at night are definitely a downside compared to the current built-in clouds (10.30b8) for which additional tweaks exist, like for example the excellent Night light transition and white clouds LUA script. Unfortunately, these tweaks don't work with the SMP clouds...

 

For that reason I'm often reverting back to the default clouds when I plan to go on night flights - even though running the SMP (un)installer repeatedly becomes a PITA rather quickly...

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It's not necessary to uninstall SMP to get the default clouds back, is it?

 

Because I disabled SMP with the Plugin Admin and instantly got the default clouds back.

Just for some testing, as I like the SMP clouds way more, day and night!

 

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Unnecessary complaints, annoying and a PITA.

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The annoying bright clouds at night are definitely a downside compared to the current built-in clouds (10.30b8) for which additional tweaks exist, like for example the excellent Night light transition and white clouds LUA script. Unfortunately, these tweaks don't work with the SMP clouds...

 

For that reason I'm often reverting back to the default clouds when I plan to go on night flights - even though running the SMP (un)installer repeatedly becomes a PITA rather quickly...

Yeah dude, I agree, The developers say they are comfortable with it which is sad. 

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Compare the Histograms from the above images.

 

SkyMAXX:

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Default X-Plane:

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Default X-Plane is demonstrably brighter.

 

 

Maybe it's the puffiness giving the illusion that SkyMAXX is lighter... X-Plane just gives you a uniform smear of .. well... crap.

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Those screenshots show exactly what I would call "bright clouds at night". To me (and many others) BOTH default and SMP are unrealistic in this respect as the night clouds seem modeled as if they were illuminated from terrestrial light pollution (like over big cities).

 

BUT: The good thing with the default clouds is that they can be tweaked to be even darker - hence my reference to the LUA script. It's only with that script that the default clouds look correct to me.

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What if I tell you that clouds were all black here yesterday? Let's face it: Cloud colors and clouds are far more complex than anything we will ever see in a flightsim. Nonetheless Skymaxx does a good job with a very small FPS hit - if you get the settings right.

 

Flo

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