Sky Color Modders?

While my attempts at understanding how the sky color mods work have failed, I know there are those out there capable of changing the color. I have always felt the default blue of the sky is not very realistic and many of the sky color mods focus on specific conditions, instead of creating a new default blue color. Below is a screenshot I took below the water that changed the sky to a much better color.

Is it possible for anyone to create a sky mod that could look similar to the above?

Now that is a good looking sky! I'm also very interested in finding out how this can be done, since the current sky doesn't look great by any measure

If you changed clouds I would think it is real photo - clouds say it is LO.

Really nice sky.

Just a couple comparison shots:

I'm only looking at the sky color, not the clouds

FSX:

Real:

LOMAC

I tried luke88's grey skies mod (originally for BS). But everything is too gray.. looks like germany weather. And I think it changes also the fog parameters.

We will see something cool when ED finish the weather engine that is planned for the future, or i hope.

REX 2 it´s very cool.

Greetings

We will see something cool when ED finish the weather engine that is planned for the future, or i hope.

 

REX 2 it´s very cool.

 

Greetings

REX looks awesome. Thanks for posting the pics. It's also just been me made available for X-Plane (which will go nicely with the MBK-117 helo you can also get for it).

I'd suggest ED could use SundogSoft's (http://sundog-soft.com/sds/) cloud rendering library but REX looks even better.

I tried luke88's grey skies mod (originally for BS). But everything is too gray.. looks like germany weather. And I think it changes also the fog parameters.

 

Honestly ive never liked this sky mod, its very unrealistic.

Anyone know how to change sky colors yet??

There is tutorial on forum try use searcher :)

It has been posted long time ago IIRC.

I found this??:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=21379

However, it all just seems like trial and error on these values and modifiers. I have no clue how to define an RGB value.

There also was something else where someone wrote each RGB values.

Not exactly what I wanted, but an interesting result...

I see a little purple in the sky

What I'm aiming for is the deep blueish grey fading to a light blue on the horizon, like the first post of this thread, but like I said, I'm just making this up as I go. I have a feeling that everyone else before me has done the same.

Thats looking awesome SE, Looks spot on for what I saw outside today :thumbup:

Whoa, i had to look at that picture several times just to make sure it wasn't a photograph of a real sky, that looks fantastic :thumbup:

The best models of the sky are physically based models. For example, R.S. Neilsen's paper considers Rayleigh and Mie scattering and compares to observations from an F-16 at altitude:

http://www.aj-productions.de/fsdeveloper/category.php5?category=Sky

Such physically-based sky models can easily be rendered in real-time on today's GPUs using shaders.

Then we have physicists such as Yoda, Case and myself (plus I'm sure there are others in the community) who can understand and use the source code in the paper.

The problem is, even if you came up with such a rendered sky how would you get it into LockOn? (since it is not a texture). Regrettably it is not something that is open to modders.

Attached is what Blaze and I have come up with. It seems very realistic, but in some directions, the horizon at the sky and ground don't match very well.

DeeperBlueSkyV1.0.zip

Thanks for your work Silent and Blaze!

I reckon we need new clouds.

Messing with that sky color was a lot of guess work at first. After a bit we had a basic idea of what we were doing and what did what, and that's the closest we could get to the results we were looking for. If anyone can improve on them go for it! The version before this one was much bluer, it also looked nice but we ended up liking the deeperblueskyv1 the best.

Guys any thoughts on tinkering with the light source? As in the omni lighting in lockon. I think if we find a way to play with em it will generate some good results

Oh cool, you can change it with a vertex shader. Thanks for providing the source.

i love it! much more realistic. . .maybe it is possible to make some before-after shots??

Awesome work Blaze and SE.

It looks great, now we need some new clouds..

ok here's some before/after:

Default:

DeeperBlueSkyV1.0:

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DeeperBlueSkyV1.0:

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DeeperBlueSkyV1.0:

Any way to get the horizon haze to look a bit less gray? Other than that; very nice indeed!