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Rembrandt vs. ALS

Rembrandt
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12%
ALS
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74%
Neither
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7%
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Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby N5818 » Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:56 pm

Just curious as to whether people use/prefer ALS or Rembrandt, as you cannot have them both active at the same time.
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby legoboyvdlp » Sat Jan 16, 2016 7:05 pm

ALS... of course.
It is ten times nicer than REMBRANDT, and is performance friendly.
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby jarl.arntzen » Sat Jan 16, 2016 7:55 pm

Rembrandt for sunny summer days, ALS for everything else.
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby StuartC » Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:34 pm

Rembrandt. proper lighting.
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby wkitty42 » Sat Jan 16, 2016 10:20 pm

ALS - better scene views
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby biloute974 » Sat Jan 16, 2016 10:42 pm

ALS, he is more light than rembrandt and rendering is really nice ;)
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby KL-666 » Sun Jan 17, 2016 3:59 am

Try flying at fl 300 or 400. Rembrandt gives you a really ugly horizon. Als is the way to go.

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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby dtlan201 » Sun Jan 17, 2016 8:01 am

I'd choose rembrant b/c its way more realistic although its performance is bad
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby Thorsten » Sun Jan 17, 2016 8:17 am

I'd choose rembrant b/c its way more realistic although its performance is bad


In what sense more realistic? If it really were, I'd not have coded ALS in the first place, the whole idea of it is to change the way light interacts with a scene from a simple model towards real physics.
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby Foxtrot15 » Sun Jan 17, 2016 4:41 pm

ALS because I look out of the window and see the same thing!! Way to go Thorsten!
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby MIG29pilot » Sun Jan 17, 2016 6:42 pm

ALS rules during the daytime. Rembrandt did control the night, but these new ALS flashlight/landing light effects are giving it a run for its money.
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby StuartC » Sun Jan 17, 2016 7:10 pm

MIG29pilot wrote in Sun Jan 17, 2016 6:42 pm:ALS rules during the daytime. Rembrandt did control the night, but these new ALS flashlight/landing light effects are giving it a run for its money.

Unless it works over multiplayer, its pointless for me.
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby Thorsten » Mon Jan 18, 2016 2:25 pm

Unless it works over multiplayer, its pointless for me.


That goes a long way to show how different users are... different.

I'd estimate that even if I fly only ever with MP buddies, for a 90 minutes flight I'll spend perhaps 10 minutes on the ground taxiing. Out of these, perhaps one in external view. There's probably three minutes in which I can potentially see whether an MP plane light actually illuminates anything or not. Provided I fly at night every time, that's 1/30 of my sim time affected. If I insert my actual habits, it's rather closer to 1/100.

On the other hand, I'm going to see the sky the whole 90 minutes - a lot of it in fact. I'll see haze all the time, I'll see many more lights from the distance not illuminating anything in particular.

As a result, I care infinitely more how the scene I see all the time looks than how a particular rarely seen feature looks. Somehow, your statement is equivalent to seeing someone say 'I don't really care how the graphics of this sim looks as long as it simulates a rainbow correctly' (that's another thing you get to see pretty rarely).

Please don't see this as a criticism in any way - you're entitled to value whatever features you like - but just as a quest for comprehension: Why is this so much more important than getting the rest of the scene right?
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby MIG29pilot » Mon Jan 18, 2016 2:44 pm

Because at the end of a FlightNight Flight they all line up for the group screenshot.
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Re: Which do you prefer? Rembrandt or ALS?

Postby Thorsten » Mon Jan 18, 2016 3:04 pm

They could also do the lineup during the day under a rainbow... doesn't really explain anything.
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