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777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby pavlin » Fri Sep 28, 2018 9:58 am

Good day, dear developers of FGFS.

Today I was wonder for better lightning at the 777 with ALS shades.

During night conditions the IDG planes with fully extended ALS have better visibility on the model and the cockpit bmo.
I am posting images:

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The examples are from landing at EDDF under ATC control and this was live streamed flight in my twitch account.

For comparing of the 777 with the same shades:

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As you can see there is significant difference in the two models shading and light. At the 777 the fully extended ALS shades are not so visible as in the IDG-A32X.

Prob. some of you will ask - what I mean by fully extended ALS shades??? I mean this:

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This is the custom ALS shades I use in most of my streams during overnight flying. It's still there is significant differences between the first FDM to the another. Legoboyvdlp has try to add light map to the plane so it can looks lighter and more visible, but it did not work, unfortunately.

Any ideas how to make this possible??? I'll really be glad.

Thx for listening to me.
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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby Octal450 » Fri Sep 28, 2018 2:25 pm

Hi Pavlin,
I believe it is due to the low-emission value on the models, not being completely dark, but being somewhat higher, so that even in dark, you can still somewhat see from the outside. The cockpit is only lit because of ambient light coming off the integrity lights, and displays.

However, I think it may also be due to if the 777 authors made a non-ALS lighting scheme using emission material animations. That would affect the brightness at night.

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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby pavlin » Fri Sep 28, 2018 9:26 pm

Thx, Octal. So there is not way to fix that?
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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby Octal450 » Fri Sep 28, 2018 9:33 pm

Not unless you modify the 3D lighting effects or/and material animations.

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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby Thorsten » Sat Sep 29, 2018 6:04 am

I think the summary statement is that each aircraft maintainer decides how 'his' aircraft looks at night - FG supplies the tools, maintainers use them (or not).
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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby pavlin » Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:51 am

So, if I want to have better 777 ALS shading I need to re-done a 3D model for it?
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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby Thorsten » Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:54 am

No, but effects, materials and lightmaps (actually the 777 looks better in your screenshots...)
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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby pavlin » Sat Sep 29, 2018 11:38 am

I think, dear Octal, that someone in your team has to teach me how to do that.....

actually the 777 looks better in your screenshots...


That's because the IDG-A32X is currently under remodeling of the 3D model. It will become better as a 3D model bmo then the 777 in time.
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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby Octal450 » Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:03 pm

I'm actually not sure why you have so much bloom in your sim, @Pavlin, did you change your bloom settings in ALS?

Mine looks like this:
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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby pavlin » Sun Sep 30, 2018 12:21 am

I've added the ALS rendering in the launcher before going in the sim. Would this a problem you think? Btw what's bloom settings?
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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby D-ECHO » Sun Sep 30, 2018 12:41 pm

@it0uchpods, he turned up the brightness in the ALS filter settings
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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby Lydiot » Sun Sep 30, 2018 4:38 pm

it0uchpods wrote in Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:03 pm:I'm actually not sure why you have so much bloom in your sim, @Pavlin, did you change your bloom settings in ALS?

Mine looks like this:


Looks great. Which plane, version and FG version is it?
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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby Octal450 » Sun Sep 30, 2018 10:39 pm

@Lydiot.

FGFS 2018.2.1, and IDG-A32X (find in my github in my signature)
Med-High settings and ALS with landmass shaders all the way on.

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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby pavlin » Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:04 am

Well, prob. my GPU- After all it's netbook gpu and it's on laptop, so that's why.
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Re: 777 ALS compared to IDG-A32X lightning

Postby legoboyvdlp » Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:39 am

pavlin wrote in Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:04 am:Well, prob. my GPU- After all it's netbook gpu and it's on laptop, so that's why.


Mine looks the same as it0uchpod's and is a fairly low powered GPU comparatively.

To be honest, in real life the cockpit is much darker than the IDG:

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our cockpit maybe should actually be darker than it is, our material settings are probably incorrect.
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