Misc good and bad weather SUITE 2.5.2

[Ross Macfarlane]

Disregard the previous; apparently when installing the texture folder "gbw suite" for clouds just didn't copy for some reason. Carry on!

I'm not getting clouds at the moment. Where is the "gbwSuite" folder meant to be in that case?

 

[boysennumba5]

It should be placed in the /content/texture folder . I think the issue was I installed the gbw_suite update by dragging the downloaded file onto CM and having that install it (which works with most mods), but for whatever reason it just didn't unzip that specific folder into the textures folder.

 

[Peter Boese]

So can this mod now support random weather?

With "random" selected in the weather menu, CM is selecting a random weather from all weather in the weather folder. So it works. Be sure you deleted the old gbwSuite 1.x weather!

 

[Peter Boese]

Due to some changings in my scripting, i can do now some sub-sceneries more precisely. Additional to the dusk&dawn sceneries in some weather, there is now place for things like morning fog. Here is the weather "few clouds" with fog between 8:31-9:30. When sliding the time from 8:31 to 9:30 the fog is getting less and less.

8:31

9:15

The main feature of gbwSuite 2.1 will be temperature inluence to the weather.
Some weather will look different with the chosen temperature. This will crank up the varity of the weather...

 

[Deleted member 197115]

Is it just me or clouds look less defined in this update, not as dramatic and mostly fuzzy.

 

[Peter Boese]

Is it just me or clouds look less defined in this update, not as dramatic and mostly fuzzy.

Do you use gbwS Reshade?

 

[Deleted member 197115]

Do you use gbwS Reshade?

Yes, I do and use the latest CM. Copied everything from install package.
Seems like Fat-Alfie https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/good-and-bad-weather-suite.146850/page-8#post-2753741
and MeMyselfAndI https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/good-and-bad-weather-suite.146850/page-8#post-2753763
reported something similar. Are cloud textures new or just sky contrast got lowered, clouds definitely missing some punch and definition.

 

[Peter Boese]

Yes, I do and use the latest CM. Copied everything from install package.
Seems like Fat-Alfie https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/good-and-bad-weather-suite.146850/page-8#post-2753741
and MeMyselfAndI https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/good-and-bad-weather-suite.146850/page-8#post-2753763
reported something similar. Are cloud textures new or just sky contrast got lowered, clouds definitely missing some punch and definition.

I use an additional shader in gbwS Reshade. "Deband". It softens parts of the picture with less detail. Maybe it is better for you to deactivate it...

 

[Deleted member 197115]

I use an additional shader in gbwS Reshade. "Deband". It softens parts of the picture with less detail. Maybe it is better for you to deactivate it...

Thanks Peter, will definitely try it out.

EDIT: No visible effect on the clouds enabling or disabling Deband.
Still looks terrific, could be just my eyes or faded memory on how it looked before.

 

[Fat-Alfie]

I must agree, the clouds seem less evident in v2.0

Few Clouds is my go-to weather, and in v2.0, sometimes I start the session and the sky only seems hazy, not cloudy. Latter in the lap and after a change of direction the clouds become more noticeable, but I no longer start AC and get that "wow!" impression that I did with v1.3

I hadn't posted about it before because I wanted to do some A/B testing. I will do that tomorrow and take some screenshots.

 

[MeMyselfAndI]

I also always used a Few Clouds v1.3 as my go to weather, now I am switching from v1.3 to v2.0 if I want any other weather.

The other weathers looks great but I miss the awesome Few Clouds that was in v1.3.

 

[Peter Boese]

Ok. I will try to do an exact replica of the old few clouds but with dynamic generation. These kind of textures are very hard to handle with low sun position. So i will not try to put them in the late and early hours like the original weather.

 

[Peter Boese]

WIP Update
I almost finished the redone "few clouds" weather.

F E A T U R E L I S T

- custom lighting
weather's time span: 5:00-21:00
sun angle adapted to: 7:00-19:00 (12h - day of equinox)

- time-dependent
05:00 - 06:29 Dawn ( without visible sun )
06:30 - 07:00 Sunrise
07:01 - 08:30 sloping morning fog
09:00 - 18:59 pro "few clouds" textures
19:00 - 19:30 Sunset
19:31 - 21:00 Dusk ( without visible sun )

- temperature-dependent
base temperature: 20°
0° - 36° from cold to hot
adapted road temperature coefficient

- car lights
auto on from 5:00-7:00 and 19:00-21:00

18:00 - 20° Celsius

18:00 - 0° Celsius

18:00 - 36° Celsius

5:00 dawn - without visible sun (first minute)

6:00 dawn - without visible sun

6:30 sunrise (first minute)

7:01 morning fog (first minute)

13:00 highest sun

Remember this is just 1 weather. With every choosen time you can set a different temperature and the scenery will get colder or hotter.

 

[Dirk Steffen]

This looks absolutely amazing and is indeed one hell of a feature list!
Who would have thought this would be possible with Assetto Corsa just a few years ago!

I am very much looking forward to this.

Out of curiosity - would it be actually possible to use the non standard weather settings in online racing if all involved have the mod including the server or is this completely out of the question ?

 

[Peter Boese]

This looks absolutely amazing and is indeed one hell of a feature list!
Who would have thought this would be possible with Assetto Corsa just a few years ago!

I am very much looking forward to this.

Out of curiosity - would it be actually possible to use the non standard weather settings in online racing if all involved have the mod including the server or is this completely out of the question ?

So far there is no solution. Sadly

 

[cerebralvortex]

Would be amazing if it would work with time progression ..

 

[Dirk Steffen]

Would be amazing if it would work with time progression ..

The question is: Does it work with time progression or does time progression in AC only move the angle of the single light source but weather is fixed ?

 

[Peter Boese]

It just moves the single lightsource and blends between 2 values for low and high angle. So it will not do all the different sets while driving. But with every generation the scenery is stable for 1 hour with 1x time progression. The engine is not very flexible for such things...

 

[cerebralvortex]

I understand it .. would have been awesome with time progression more than 1x though. Looks stunning still !

 

[oliver65]

thank you very much.
one question:
with gbwreshade it looks much brighter than with the suite. Especially the cockpit is with the suite a little dark.
Is this correct?