One last thing before starting to work on rain
Happy New Year and thank you for all the support!
In the last few days, I started working on a default Weather FX implementation to be a bit faster alternative to Sol (which is, of course, absolutely amazing, but I think for slower PCs it might be a bit of a strain). Plus, it would be easier to work on things like better tunnels, rain and what not. And while setting it up, I thought I’d try to find a different way to render clouds, which wouldn’t require a massive textures library (or those CSP updates would become too massive). I tried those modern super-fancy volumetric clouds, but that is just way too expensive and/or noisy, as far as I can tell.
So this is what I came up with so far, it’s not as good as proper volumetic clouds, but it’s quite cheap (since those are just billboards), and easier to control for WeatherFX script if needed. And maybe now cloud shadows would work too. 😁
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Dear x4fab, First of all... Happy new year!!! I have a little issue and I didn't find a way to fix it. I have noticed that starting from middle of December (maybe after installing a new version), all my tracks have a winter-ish look (see https://pasteboard.co/IP1KeSc.png), that was cool, anyway now I would like to play with original colors ;-) I guess that there is some settings to tweak somewhere, but I wasn't able to find it. Could you help me please? Thanks for your incredible job!
Thank you so much! You can either change date here in Quick Drive, after clicking at three dots next to time slider, or go to Weather FX settings and disable seasonal adjustments. There is another option for seasonal adjustments in track extension options, quite confusing, will fix that as soon as I’ll figure out a better solution. Option in Weather FX settings changes any conditions based on time of year, making it return -1, neat and tidy. And option in track section disables any adjustment which mentions seasons in any way, helping to deal with broken configs. Thankfully though, those are much rarer now, as far as I know.
Reminds me of Trackmania 2!
That's spectacularly nice Ilja; happy to support this great work and excited to see where you take it.
Happy New Year. But I still want CM showroom support encrypted cars first, to make new preview photo. It's been half a year. I don't think volumetric rain is important because the physic engine didn't support dynamic wet surface.
Oh, very sorry about that, please try this build of CM: https://mega.nz/#!L540WKZI!VnbmEys2H3_ccVssrHd-gOzE5rDG8P8-JE-u8aKJipM As for dynamic wet surface, I can’t promise anything, of course, but I think I might have silly idea. I doubt if it would work though, but I’d try it at least for the experience.
Fantastic! If it looks this good and frees up extra FPS, it will be awesome. Happy New Year Ilja.
Thanks! Please, if possible, try newer build (same as in cloud shadows post), and check the performance: https://mega.nz/#!OlgjWS6D!vDoSImYnwGIx45a0_JhiMG0yryprRGng3AFEu3ScXVo
Looks fantastic. Great, great work!
Happy New Year. That looks amazing.
Brilliant stuff.Happy New Year
You are a genius!! Simply astonishing. Happy new year Ilja! Btw...in spain It's tradition to make gifts like Christmas on the January 6th day. Will you be our Magician King and will show us a beta update? 🤔😏
Happy New Year! Sorry, missed the timeline, but please try the new build! :)
Stunning. Every update is stunning.
Happy new year Ilja, looks phenomenal as always!
Great Ilja , Happy new year to you.