Screenshots WALL : Tack up your pictures!

[Herbumus]

Jason,
Thanks for the reminder... forgot how "sexy" this aircraft is.
Flew from Tahoe into KSAC this evening... very enjoyable.
Too bad Bill Lear couldn't be here to share the love.
Herbumus

[djMot]

Your Eye In The Sky...
Departing Houston, TX

[Herbumus]

Great shot, DJ. What a great job, pilot for ABC 7 news... does it pay well?
Thanks for sharing,
Herbumus

[djMot]

Great shot, DJ. What a great job, pilot for ABC 7 news... does it pay well?
Thanks for sharing,
Herbumus

It pays well if the story's good, lol. Thanks.

[djMot]

Skimmin' the "Big Ditch"

[djMot]

great shots mjDOT. shows me something I need to put some shadowing on. that panel inset area of the CTJ.

Glad I could help!
And thanks for the compliment!

[AADX]

I'm curious why your avidyne bezels, panel screen area content and the face of the compass is so grey, where in my colors, in the master and as I see, they are matched dark grey to the face of the pod. What gamma # do you use?

Above is with a baked shadow overlay to the panel pod inset area and all panel use regions. and with an updated lighter bake on the entire interior.. i'll redo it due to 'one sliver' of double lightening that I want to undo for my eye standards. As seen here now is uploading now will post as an update to CTJ in about 15 minutes. I just like that look, so clean and sharp. I did a turn & burn around 5U1 testing it with ctrl-o w/ cinema verite on, and it's a sweet fly.

[MdMax]

My gamma setting is 2.5:

Benjamin Supnik explained something here about gamma on a PC and a Mac and png files, so the 2nd question should be "What's your system ?"
http://xplanescenery.blogspot.com/2010/ ... y-sad.html

[AADX]

I read that. png files do contain the gamma/source creator machine info. but that goes out on the wrong end of programs trying to do things too automatically and producing inconsistent results when things are happening automatic on the program side and assuming things. I'm on Mac, my screens are color calibrated. X-Plane claims gamam 1.8,, my system is gama ~1.8. and all programs that use the files make the same appearance. as made in photoshop, as seen in blender, and as seen in x-plane.

2.5 is just too high. Even historically 2.2 was "pc gamma" so for x-plane to default to 2.5 is an artificial way for them to 'brighten it up' after so many complaints by so many that it is too dark, as a product of varied lighting solutions. Anyway. I strongly suggest that any pc user use 2.2 or 2.0. The screenshots earlier in this section by Herb and Kiofka are on pc at 2.0-2.2 and dont look so washed out. Ben's rant in his blog was that dds doesnt contain gama values. Irrelevant for me as I dont like, nor use dds files, they degrade the image quality (for clean up close textures, they're good and better suited to noisy terrain/scenery textures anyway) and dds files are larger, not smaller. So it's a loose/loose for aircraft to use dds.

try 2.0 and 2.2 and see what you see. I think 2.2 and you'll see, what I see at 1.8 X-Plane defaulting to 2.5 is .3 above standard and is where the washout is coming from.

[djMot]

Mine is also 2.5. I thought that was the default. I've not manually changed it anyway. I do have REXPlane installed, as I see you do too, MdMax. Not sure if that install adjusted it or not. Before installing REXPlane, I installed another mod that was supposed to do something to better the sky visuals, but I'm not sure what it was.

I'm a PC. What should my gamma be?