Clouds mod

Hey Mustang, I have to say, your mod is awesome.

You maybe realized that in DCS2.0 there are big cloud clusters and fronts possible with cloud density of 7. Is it possible to combine your mod with this clustering? This would be even more realistic.

Are you using SweetFX/ReShade? It seems that something is exaggerating the downsampling aliasing artifacting on your end, i rarely ever see it looking so bad as that.

you think my problem is sweetfx?

@zionid, do you use this mod ?

with my GTX 980 Ti, i have about 14-15 fps, average.

I have GTX 970 and get 40-60+ FPS all of a sudden. Testet this a month ago and got 10-15. Either something happened with the latest Nvidia driver, or with the DCS code.

I just want to imagine

Please fasten your jaw before watching.

I just want to imagine

in DCS.

Please fasten your jaw before watching.

This engine is a bit overrated. These clouds look impressive if you move only slow. But at 1:30 you see they are definitely not volumetric, what is important. You would see it while panning the camera around that cloud.

Oh please. I would never want REX on DCS, nor the weather technology FSX/P3D uses. 2d clouds that turn around you in 2016.. Volumetric clouds are the way to go now.

That's a fair point. Particles and sprites are of another age of smoke and mirrors but I doubt any volumetric rendering could produce a believable weather system with the current computing power.

But I do hope ED's plans will prove me wrong. At the time, the perlin noise system was pretty innovative and effective.

I hope they'll make it.

Or eventually start looking at third parties too like this

http://simul.co/truesky/

Dcs has much room for improvement with the whole weather and atmosphere simulation. Those other sims are much better I can fly exact weather currently outside I. Germany with one click of a button. Great for pre flight and training here. One can only wish they allow 3rd party integration of these technologies into dcs world.

These new clouds look amazing, but they do tank my framerate. I'm on an HD7850, FX8320 and 8GB of RAM.

Sorry if Dropbox link was broken in earlier post, here is updated working one

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bwfdrpgi3nxikl6/Clouds%20experimental.zip?dl=0

Thanks Mustang :thumbup:

Here's a JSGME-ready .rar if anyone is interested. (updated: 06-19-2016)

Thanks Mustang for fix the Download Link.

I installed mod, have a problem.

My FPS is going under 20 FPS.

maintain 10 ~ 15 FPS All Time.

Mod disable = maintain 60 FPS

Mod enable = maintain 15 FPS

How to solve it?

I Am use GTX 970 Overclocked.

Thanks a lot mustang.

I love your mods.

They're still WIP, and are heavy on GPUs, especially NVIDIAs.

clouds. Yes it worked. But it is very blurry. Is this normal? Or must i do some settings?

Link updated, i have completely solved the problem with terrain masking lines showing through clouds

clouds. Yes it worked. But it is very blurry. Is this normal? Or must i do some settings?

try downloading the package again and see if it's any different, if not please provide a screenshot if blurry problems persist and also the steps to reproduce it.

Hello Mustang,

I have one question. Is it possible to combine your clouds with this clustering and cloud fronts from DCS2.0? That would be even more realistic.

Hello Mustang,

 

I have one question. Is it possible to combine your clouds with this clustering and cloud fronts from DCS2.0? That would be even more realistic.

 

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Is this with dynamic weather? If so no, the newer clouds only work with the standard 1-8 cloud cover settings in the mission editor.

Link updated, i have completely solved the problem with terrain masking lines showing through clouds

 

 

 

try downloading the package again and see if it's any different, if not please provide a screenshot if blurry problems persist and also the steps to reproduce it.

Yes, thank you. Redownloading worked!:thumbup:

I put it on jsmge.

Thank you!

It's a bummer getting too big of a fps hit with nvidia again did you increase super sampling or something in latest config? Before it seemed better fps wise and also I still get the terrain outlines in the clouds.

It's a bummer getting too big of a fps hit with nvidia again did you increase super sampling or something in latest config? Before it seemed better fps wise and also I still get the terrain outlines in the clouds.

Interesting, there should be no difference in terms of performance at all between versions, are you sure you haven't altered something on your end to affect the framerates? BTW i do not see any terrain outlines anymore, could you capture a pic showing this?

Will do I'm running sli so I imagine it may be the culprit. Also was using stairways dlc textures with your clouds trying yours now

Hi guys,

Same here, still get the terrain lines, with a single 980 ti. The framerate is fine like with the previous files..

Thanks again for your work Mustang :thumbup:

So I get the bleed through lines both with your textures and stairways. It's mt edges, rivers, and roads.

Yea I'm getting the lines as well, the fps is fine though. I'm using a gtx980