Taz1004 Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 (edited) This mod is tree textures with actual tree and branch photographs for Caucasus. Instead of Speed Tree generated ones. For ALL seasons. What's new in V6: Fixed normals that caused dark patches. Especially visible in FLIR. Reduced flickering further. Improved shapes of some trees. If you want snowless winter trees, just delete all files and folder with "winter" in it. Fixed normals. Reduced flicker Summer Comparison DOWNLOAD: V6 Dark V6 Medium V6 Light INSTALL: Extract into main DCS directory. OvGME or other Mod Manager recommended. NOT IC SAFE. If you have Terrain mod such as CGTC, Barthek's, Mustang's, Starway's.... there will be conflict. Just install this mod last and overwrite. This mod will only replace trees and substrate. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * LOW VERSION Low version has minimal visual difference but 4 times smaller in file size. LOW Version Download: V6 Dark Low V6 Medium Low V6 Light Low Texture source: Tree library CD purchased for architecture projects. Royalty free texture from textures.com. License: https://www.textures.com/terms-of-use.htm Edited September 16, 2022 by Taz1004 19 11 Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
zildac Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 These look great, many thanks! 14900KS | Maximus Hero Z690 | ASUS 4090 TUF OC | 64GB DDR5 6600 | DCS on 2TB NVMe | WarBRD+Warthog Stick | CM3 | TM TPR's | Varjo Aero
YoYo Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 Nice work. What performance they have in VR mode? The same, better, worse than default? Thx. Webmaster of http://www.yoyosims.pl Win 10 64, i9-13900 KF, RTX 4090 24Gb OC, RAM 64Gb Corsair Vengeance LED OC@3600MHz,, 3xSSD+3xSSD M.2 NVMe, Predator XB271HU res.2560x1440 27'' G-sync, Sound Blaster Z + 5.1, TiR5, [MSFS, P3Dv5, DCS, RoF, Condor2, IL-2 CoD/BoX] VR fly only: Meta Quest Pro
flanker1 Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 they look great, but in my opinion need a little more color variation and also better blend in the scene. is it possible to improve it in this direction?
Taz1004 Posted August 3, 2020 Author Posted August 3, 2020 they look great, but in my opinion need a little more color variation and also better blend in the scene. is it possible to improve it in this direction? Was planning on it for spring and fall but not for summer. I think I have too much variation in summer. Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
Taz1004 Posted August 3, 2020 Author Posted August 3, 2020 (edited) Nice work. What performance they have in VR mode? The same, better, worse than default? Thx. They're simply texture swap. In many cases reduced in size as I mentioned so it should be more efficient. My Summer texture pack for example is 9 MB. Default is 35 MB. Most of these reduction comes from reducing normal maps and barks which should not effect visual quality. Trees are instanced so saving little bit of texture memory wouldn't yield great performance boost but it can't be worse. I haven't done any benchmark but my in game frame rate hasn't changed. I don't even know why these have normal maps. Even billboards. Just default Speed Tree setting they kept. I would get rid of them if I can but I can't. These look a lot better in VR than in the screenshots in my opinion. I'm having a lot of fun flying over them. Edited August 3, 2020 by Taz1004 1 Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
docWilly Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 Thanks Taz, my findings: smooth, more pleasant to the human eye, extremely fluid (track IR user), no flickering (looking around and zooming in for example with the KA50 shkval). Definitely no impact on frames... I recommend your trees whatever senery mod people may use. Currently I use them with Starways latest 2.5.8 release. I use it with shadows flat, MSAA 4x, Anisotropic 16x, trees max Cheers Willy 1 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]my rig specs: i7-4790K CPU 4.50GHz, 32GB RAM, 64bit WIN10, NVidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti, SSD+ A10C, UH-1H, M2C, F5E, Gazelle, KA 50, F18C, DCS 2.5x OB
EL_LEJI Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 Thanks, these trees looks great :thumbup: http://www.cruzdesanandres.com/ My skins Windows 10 Pro -Asus rog strix z490-e gaming - I7 10700K - Ram Corsair 32 GB 3600 - Samsung 970 evo plus 1tb - RTX 4070TI 12Gb - Gigabyte G32QC 2560 x 1440 (QHD)- Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog -TPR: Thrustmaster Pendular Rudder - Track IR 5 - VR samsung odyssey plus
aceviper Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 Nice mod...but feel they are too dark on bright day. Try 25% less contrast for better blending too.
Quekel Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 Looking great! And if you reduced file size by 4 times it should definitely increase performance! Il give it a try when home
YoYo Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 Looking great! And if you reduced file size by 4 times it should definitely increase performance! Il give it a try when home Check it in VR and back here ;). Im not at home ... Webmaster of http://www.yoyosims.pl Win 10 64, i9-13900 KF, RTX 4090 24Gb OC, RAM 64Gb Corsair Vengeance LED OC@3600MHz,, 3xSSD+3xSSD M.2 NVMe, Predator XB271HU res.2560x1440 27'' G-sync, Sound Blaster Z + 5.1, TiR5, [MSFS, P3Dv5, DCS, RoF, Condor2, IL-2 CoD/BoX] VR fly only: Meta Quest Pro
dali Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 leaves are dark in the summer, this is great improvement over stock trees. 1
Taz1004 Posted August 3, 2020 Author Posted August 3, 2020 leaves are dark in the summer, this is great improvement over stock trees. I originally had it darker as all the references I found them to be dark. But I knocked it back down because I think people are used to faded default trees. Myself included. 1 Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
cro_mig_21 Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 They look great, thank you! I personally wouldn't mind having them a bit darker indeed.
Barthek Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 I've been tinkering with trees too when working on my ground textures. The problem is that the forests and trees in urban areas use the same textures but a different shading. Hence - if you darken the forests, the trees in cities and villages will be much darker. The key is to find a good balance between them. 1
Taz1004 Posted August 3, 2020 Author Posted August 3, 2020 What I found is that in cities and fields, it's mostly American beech and cypress oak. And mountain maple and fir in forests. I may make beech slightly lighter and maple slightly darker. But for now, I gotta do some flying. :pilotfly: 2 Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
crazyeddie Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 Excellent idea, really well executed, we all have slightly different perspectives on what looks best so a bit of compromise is always required, I'm looking forward to your improvements. Well done mate, I know how much work goes into this kind of Mod, I have played around with the vfs textures a bit myself and its not an easy thing to do or get absolutely right. :thumbup: 1
Taz1004 Posted August 4, 2020 Author Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) You know when you think there's something wrong with a picture but can't really point out what it is? I think I found it. When the Sun is low, I was wondering why the shadowing on the distant billboard trees are reversed. I reverted to default tree and it does same thing. I tried reversing the normal map and voila. Not only that, incorrect normal map was masking the details from the billboard image texture. Now I gotta fix all the normal maps. Bit of preview on fall tree progress. Edited August 4, 2020 by Taz1004 2 Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
cro_mig_21 Posted August 4, 2020 Posted August 4, 2020 It has already been reported in this thread: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=260918 Your fix looks superb, will you include it in the mod? 1
Taz1004 Posted August 4, 2020 Author Posted August 4, 2020 It has already been reported in this thread: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=260918 Your fix looks superb, will you include it in the mod? Yes, working on it. Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
Taz1004 Posted August 4, 2020 Author Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) We've been living in a dream world. Just fixing all the normals made all distant trees pop. View enlarged. Everything in this shot are billboard trees. Edited August 4, 2020 by Taz1004 Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
Weegie Posted August 4, 2020 Posted August 4, 2020 I tried it last night, vast improvement IMHO I'd love the darker trees shown earlier in the thread if you still happened to have these available
Dave317 Posted August 4, 2020 Posted August 4, 2020 Any chance of a darker version? I tried it today and my trees look very bright.
Highwayman-Ed Posted August 4, 2020 Posted August 4, 2020 Looks great, especially whilst we wait for the official fix to the normal maps. Intel i9-9900KF @5.2GHz MSI Z390 Gaming Pro Carbon 32GB G.Skill Trident Z DDR3200 RAM MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio 40" Panasonic TH-40DX600U @ 4K Pimax Vision 8K Plus / Oculus Rift CV1 / HTC Vive Gametrix JetSeat with SimShaker Windows 10 64 Bit Home Edition [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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