Misc good and bad weather SUITE 2.5.2

[Dave_6]

Thanks! Won't install it then.

 

[Peter Boese]

@Peter Boese I also posted these over at ilja's discord but wanted to post here too. I'm using latest everything. CM, your mod, his shaders light patch... it's all latest and verified to hell and back. And i simply don't think sun should be blinding like this at 19:00 with broken clouds (that means a fair amount of clouds in the sky) Is this normal or a bug? Look how it goes over the rear view mirror. The screens are from nords but it happens in all the other tracks too.

EDIT: It also happens with 2.2, i wanted to wait to see if it would go away with 2.3 but it didn't.

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This is a side effect of the PPFilter's glare and godray effect. If there is no effect on the sun, just a basic circle is visible - which looks pretty rough. So i decided to have a blending sun - which is more realistic the most of the time. This is the ugliest thing with AC engine. ATM i tried to get a more dramatic dusk to make the sun plausible.

 

[SunBro]

This is a side effect of the PPFilter's glare and godray effect. If there is no effect on the sun, just a basic circle is visible - which looks pretty rough. So i decided to have a blending sun - which is more realistic the most of the time. This is the ugliest thing with AC engine. ATM i tried to get a more dramatic dusk to make the sun plausible.

Thanks for making clear this is "as designed" and not a bug on my end. Good to know.

 

[blackcelica]

Been working on an idea but don't get too excited, it's not as good as you might first think. What about a static rain overlay? The visor helmet view layer mod gave me the idea and this is the result so far....

Ok, it looks good in a still screenshot but remember its static so it looks wrong whilst moving, and in cockpit view the rain is inside the car. However, on external views it looks brilliant. Here is a pic of Mansell at a very wet Silverstone.

See it doesn't look bad, early days and I've probably wasted too much time on it today already.
Food for thought though.

 

[blackcelica]

Ok, It kind of works with the open wheelers.

Got a day off tomorrow so I'll see if I can get it to something workable for an upload. You'll need the visorXforce mod though to work it. Watch this space...

 

[386]

here is the problem I am trying to describe
I will post an image of the same scene in the old GBW and the new GBW suite.
Everything just looks too dark in the new suite to be realistic
Weather Set
Dynamic Weather
Old GBW

 

[jonination]

Quick question, are day-to-night transitions and vice versa possible with this? Setting time to 60x in CM at 20:00 did nothing for the sky after 10 minutes. Totally digging this mod regardless, just curious about this one thing and if I installed it wrong.

Edit: Just went back a page, now I know. sorry!

 

[Jempy]

here is the problem I am trying to describe
I will post an image of the same scene in the old GBW and the new GBW suite.
Everything just looks too dark in the new suite to be realistic

When changing the filter cm_weather on track for the gbw_suite one, this slightly darker view becomes the usual clearer view. So follow Peter's advice and this should make you happier :

This is a feature CM provides and gbwSuite uses - everthing is right with "__cm_weather". I use this function of creating a slightly changed filter out of the base filter. If you have a look in the manual, it is described there. You can switch of this function here:
SETTINGS->CONTENT MANAGER->DRIVE->disable "Use custom weather's PP-Filter"
But then you miss all the other changes dependent on time and temperature.
Night should be black.

 

[386]

this actually makes it worse

 

[Peter Boese]

here is the problem I am trying to describe
I will post an image of the same scene in the old GBW and the new GBW suite.
Everything just looks too dark in the new suite to be realistic
Weather SetView attachment 258181
Dynamic WeatherView attachment 258182
Old GBWView attachment 258183

Hi,

I adapted the old gbw3.3 filter to the gbwSuite brightness level. So its almost exactly the same like your gbw picture. Hope that helps...

 

[Peter Boese]

 

[Dirk Steffen]

This is too good. It should not be possible to do that. You cannot release that. It is too good!

 

[Alistair McKinley]

This is too good. It should not be possible to do that. You cannot release that. It is too good!

I feel the same!
It will make me drive during dusk all day and night.

 

[manc0ntr0]

So if you see "cm_weather" in the PostProcessing-app it's a good sign you have the best visual quality.

Hi Peter. Talking with a friend because night shaders didn't work well, we saw a big difference between "_cm_weather" and "_gbWSuite". I don't know if I touched something I should not or what, but with previous versions of both mods, it usually worked well.
I made a couple of photos showing the difference:

Is there anything I can do to make it look like the last photo without having to change the PP filter in-game?

 

[Peter Boese]

Hi Peter. Talking with a friend because night shaders didn't work well, we saw a big difference between "_cm_weather" and "_gbWSuite". I don't know if I touched something I should not or what, but with previous versions of both mods, it usually worked well.
I made a couple of photos showing the difference:

Is there anything I can do to make it look like the last photo without having to change the PP filter in-game?

With the next release i add a little config file for gbwSuite. There it will be possible to customize such things. Then you can choose to have more headlights or lower the darkness effect.

For the moment you could switch off "use weather's custom PPFilter".

 

[manc0ntr0]

With the next release i add a little config file for gbwSuite. There it will be possible to customize such things. Then you can choose to have more headlights or lower the darkness effect.

For the moment you could switch off "use weather's custom PPFilter".

Thanks, now it's better

 

[ndv99]

When running a 24h weather (e.g. Clear__dynamic_24h), should the sky type change automatically while running? I was testing this out today and looking at the different appearences the game should have; I started with the time set to 6.15 (i.e. the game should appear to be "Dawn without visible sun"), but after 30 minutes of in-engine time had passed, there was no Sunrise. I stayed in engine for another hour and still the sun was not visible. But when I reloaded the engine with the time set to start at 6.30, the sun was clearly visible.

Anyway, complaint over, I still absolutely love the mod! Just wondering if this is the way it's meant to work or not.

 

[Gevatter]

When running a 24h weather (e.g. Clear__dynamic_24h), should the sky type change automatically while running?

No, AC's game engine cannot do that. Weather and time are static in-game.

 

[ndv99]

No, AC's game engine cannot do that. Weather and time are static in-game.

Cheers for the clarification

 

[Leonardo Ratafiá]

No, AC's game engine cannot do that. Weather and time are static in-game.

time is not static, theres time cycle from 8 to 18hs even on multiplayer