Canopy reflections

[Jezzer]

Hi,

 

Anyone know of a way to turn off/get rid of/minimize the canopy reflections which are in many of the DCS modules ?

 

 

Above pic (Latest open beta) shows them on the left hand side.

 

Cheers.

[animaal]

I use the little "Canopy Jett" lever. Works a treat!

 

 

 

:D

 

 

(I agree though, I would prefer the canopy to have no reflections. I'm slightly less concerned with reflections on instruments)

[Gierasimov]

To the contrary...

 

It would be nice if those were dynamic reflections for sure, but reflections are a real thing in real life and add an overall beauty to the DCS aircraft.

 

I noticed that on lower graphical settings these can get a little bit too prominent, but on maxed-out settings which my PC is lucky to achieve, they are great.

[WindyTX]

Unfortunately they are atrocious in VR and completely break immersion. They are also way more intrusive than any reflection I have seen in real life. Be great if it was an option.

 

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[Jezzer]

Well I’ve answered my own question :smilewink:

 

I have manage to remove the canopy reflections in the Hornet & Heuy for 2D & VR for both single player & the Hornet only for MP (only tested against 2 servers).

 

Done without changing any DCS files, here’s how.

 

I believe all the 3dgimoto tool is doing is simply not loading the particular shader the controls the canopy reflections (the shader may well do other things that I have not noticed).

 

Download the 3Dgimoto V1.3.16 from github : https://github.com/bo3b/3Dmigoto/releases

 

1. Download 3DMigoto (version 1.3.16) from GitHub.

 

2. Extract the archive into a temp directory.

 

3. Copy all of the contents of the X64 directory to the same directory as your DCS executable (the game directory will end in something like "C:\ … \Eagle Dynamics\DCS World Openbeta\bin").

 

4. Download the attached .txt file and rename it "d3dx.ini" (without quotes).

 

5. Download the ShaderFixes.zip and unpack in a temp directory these 3 files are then copied to the Shaderfixes directory.

 

6. Put the downloaded & renamed file "d3dx.ini" in the same directory that you installed 3DMigoto (replacing the default d3dx.ini file). C:\ … \Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin".

 

7. To remove simply run the uninstall.bat file you copied to the bin directory.

 

8. Start DCS as you would normally.

 

I got the idea from another forum of another game that also has some shaders the some folks prefer not to see.

 

Disclaimer :thumbup: I am not a programmer and what I know about shaders you could write the back of a very small postage stamp. I have no clue if this changes anything else in DCS or has any other effects positive or negative. But seems to be working for me YMMV.

 

I'll be working on some of the other modules l8r

 

:beer:

d3dx.txt

ShaderFixes.zip

Edited March 11, 2020 by Jezzer