Enjoying the new Shade tool for FSX

DarrenL · Post by **DarrenL** » 29 Sep 2011, 14:02

On my screen they colours look better, shadows are more defined, I can actually see shadows on hills and mountains and to me the shaders make them look more realistic.

http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/shade/p51-big.jpg
http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/shade/p51-big1.jpg
http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/shade/p51-big2.jpg
http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/shade/p51-big3.jpg

sketchy74 · Post by **sketchy74** » 29 Sep 2011, 22:17

Hi Darren,

I have followed the Thread over at SOH and noticed you post a few times, I take it you are pretty happy with this add on then?

There is mention there about the "ENB Series" I have been out of the loop for a month or so due to real life, any idea what that is?

Either way this does look good and I think I'll invest after the round of screen shots I have seen.

Cheers,

Fraser.

DarrenL · Post by **DarrenL** » 29 Sep 2011, 22:34

Hi Fraser.

ENB Series is a dx9 bloom effect that origionally was made for GTA San Andreas but works on any (it seems) dx9 based game. All you do is drop the dx9 dll and ini config into the main FSX folder and use Shift+F12 to turn it off and on, the config can be changed and there is a good on that ships with Shade.

On my phone tapping away as its still hot here this evening and letting the PC cool down but I'll post some shots with and without ENB tomorrow.

sketchy74 · Post by **sketchy74** » 29 Sep 2011, 23:01

Thanks Darren.

Look forward to the shots, glad the weather in Bedfordshire is holding up!

Cheers,

Fraser.

DarrenL · Post by **DarrenL** » 30 Sep 2011, 11:55

29c degrees yesterday, sun shining bright today as well.

I have a few comparisons below (full size as well so you see the detail).

Sunset
Without ENB - http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/ENB/drake.jpg
With ENB - http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/ENB/drake+enb.jpg

Daytime (ignore clouds appearing REX hadn't loaded them in in the default before I took the screenshot

)
Without ENB (default water) - http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/ENB/Default.jpg
With ENB (default water) - http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/ENB/Default+ENB.jpg
Without ENB (FSWC water effects) - http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/ENB/FSWC.jpg
With ENB (FSWC water effects) - http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/ENB/FSWC+ENB.jpg

Sunrise
Without ENB (running Shade) - http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/ENB/comet.jpg
With ENB (running Shade) - http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/ENB/comet+enb.jpg

You can get quite different results though by changing the ENB ini file parameters. Like this, you can go further both ways. What is basically changes is light and bloom, whereas shade makes subtle changes the colour and shadow palette.
Without ENB - http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/ENB/meteor.jpg
With ENB - http://www.mercia.biz/fsx/ENB/meteor+enb.jpg
(changed aircraft to a British one

)

If you can see these, here are a few different comparisons of Shade settings - http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/ ... omparison/

Post by **Garry Russell** » 30 Sep 2011, 12:18

Hi Dareen

It would be better if you made the comparisons top and bottom of one screenshot as as it's sometimes hard to compare

Mostly good..the warship sunrise or sunset looks better without

Does it change the aircraft at all?.....the Meteor is looking very poor

The last link is a "you don't have permission" type link

DarrenL · Post by **DarrenL** » 30 Sep 2011, 12:34

Yep, you need to be a member (free and easy) on the Orbx forum to see it.

The meteor is purely showing what you can do (if you get the settings wrong) and how much it can be altered. So subtle changes can be done too. The ENB changes the light bloom and if you get the settings wrong can make the aircraft go too white (bright) but with good settings and lots of people post their settings the effect can be limited to the light sources, it can make the aircraft go subtly darker if the conditions would expect it to be, or brighter if it's in direct sunlight.

PS. Tabbed browsing, open the with & without images in different tabs and swap between them

Post by **Garry Russell** » 30 Sep 2011, 12:40

Understood Darren as long as I't not one of those envmap enhancements that ruin properly made stuff

Tabbed browsing...what you you think I've been doing

But flicking back and forth is not good enough, comparisons should be on the same page

No good posting a link that you have to join to see.......I not joining any forums unless I really want too

Cheers

DarrenL · Post by **DarrenL** » 30 Sep 2011, 12:52

Garry Russell wrote:Understood Darren as long as I't not one of those envmap enhancements that ruin properly made stuff

It's 100% adaptable and not a set environment so it's nice to have a fiddle around with. The great thing is you can set it to start on or off and manual turn it on and off in game. Then if you don't want it any more just delete the d3dx9.dll's you would have copied in and the ebnseries.ini files from your main directory and it's gone.

If you have any other games you can use it on them too, racing games, FPS, other sims. Anything that you run in DirectX9 will use it.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 30 Sep 2011, 12:56

So much better that way

So many enhancements change things globally and leave some folks wishing they'd never touched it

Definitely a plus point

Classic British Flight Sim

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