DCS World Spec/Land Lighting Mod

[diveplane]

On the skin artist side, this affects our specular map textures, and depending if you have a GeForce 570 to 680, etc etc, the Specular shader will actually output differently.

 

wont affect anything because the mod comes in 5 versions, low spec mod has lower values than default spec,

also theres a version that has no specular for low end pcs need more horse power.

all my mods include a backup default, so people can revert back if they dont want to use the mod.

 

plenty of choices within the mod. ,also noone forces u to apply these mods they are made available to use if u want to try them out.

Edited May 22, 2012 by diveplane

[Ali Fish]

it does affect the power range of what the skin artists have to play with on any other than super spec, bar movie maker spec variant.

[Kuky]

I just tried the High spec version and to me it does look nice when looking at object (aircraft) up close and when in cockpit you can see nice sheen over the wings (nice touch) but loading times are bit too high even for me and I have a Vertex 3 SSD.

 

I find also that if you are looking at aircraft from far out it makes no difference in visibility, and I thought it would... I need to digest this mod bit more to decide if its a keeper or not (mostly due to high loading times)

 

EDIT: I timed 2,5min loading time for Sunset Sierra mission... too long aye. This can't be loading from HDD, it must be some processing during loading... badly optimised shaders?

Edited May 23, 2012 by Kuky

[Mustang]

Same here unfortunately, its not good for MP use for me since these long pauses can result in a client ping timeout.

[PeterP]

EDIT: I timed 2,5min loading time for Sunset Sierra mission... too long aye. This can't be loading from HDD, it must be some processing during loading... badly optimised shaders?

 

A very uneducated guess:

Do you remember the first installations of Warthog beta? - it took very long to load the first time, as the shaders where not pre-compiled.

 

Now in every version they are pre-compiled by default , but maybe this mod changes the settings - so DCS has to do again on every start-up as the data doesn't match with the pre-compiled ones.

 

There is a "shadercompiler.exe" (or similar) in DCS:World bin folder - did anyone tried to run it after you have installed this mod?

[Esac_mirmidon]

It has no effect in loading times using Asmshaderscompiler.exe. For me with mode on 120 seconds. Without mod 23 seconds.

[diveplane]

ok land brightness mod, it will be 2 versions, and included default.

 

screens below

 

default brightness

 

bright mod

 

dark mod

 

this mod will be uploaded shortly to user files section..

 

look out for Diveplanes Land Brightness Mods 1.0

 

mod works in multiplayer tested, but load times are a little longer. = shader loading.

 

my personnal one is the bright mod looks great ingame.

[JABO2009]

bright mod looks great !! can you add one more comparison pic? whats your loading time with brightness mod on ?

 

cheers

[Devrim]

Oh my god...

 

I should have read this topic before install the mod. I thought it was my sound files or anything what I did. After installing "Land Brightness Mods 1.0", the load time increases remarkably, 30 secs to 120 secs.! (Not mentioning about first run.)

 

Great mod actually, but I had to uninstall Diveplane.

Thanks so much for your work.

 

...it is pretty much weird to see these parameters affecting the loading times

Right. I really don't understand either.

[neroroxxx]

hey guys, i added this upgrade and the cockpit flood lights aren't bright enough to light up the cockpit, i made the huge mistake of not backing up the files, can anybody help me by getting me the files? thanks!

[diveplane]

hey guys, i added this upgrade and the cockpit flood lights aren't bright enough to light up the cockpit, i made the huge mistake of not backing up the files, can anybody help me by getting me the files? thanks!

 

default file is in with the mod.

[neroroxxx]

default file is in with the mod.

 

Hey diveplane, I feel so stupid right now, it wasn't this mod that did it, I installed your mod first and worked great, it was DCS World Spotlight Source Mod 2 that did it but I confused the tread, I'm so sorry for mistake and thank you for your mod, it makes the a-10c look amazing.