Derek McAllan Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 G'day all, I've been playing around with REX's Tim Fuchs' great new ENB palette, Sunlight ENBPlus, trying to find the best balance of settings to suit me and my flying. The pics below are a series of a flight from Queenstown to Christchurch in NZSI, utilising real weather provided by the REX Weather Engine, where I tried a variety of different ENB adjustments. It was a great flight, flown real time and with ATC provided by my latest addition - Radar Contact - no idea why I waited this bloody long to get that addon, it's making all the difference at the moment. As far as ENB goes, I'm having a love/hate relationship with it at the moment. I love the extra contrast and bloom provided, and the ability to tweak the light colouration, but it is the source of many crash problems with FSX for me when flying with really heavy load on the CPU (ie - NGX + Brisbane). Consequently, I'm only really running with ENB enabled when I want really nice visuals for screenies. As far as the palette goes, I found Tim's profile to be a little heavy on the yellow, so over the course of this flight I tried a few variations. That's one of the great things about the ENB mod - you can turn it off within FSX, make some changes to the files then re-enable it to see your changes straight away. By the end of the flight, I'd toned down the colour saturation in the palette file to about 25% of Tim's original, and I'm pretty satisfied with my results now. This is of course, highly subjective - it will depend on the sky theme chosen, the weather, the time of day and your own personal preference, naturally. Please feel free to critique... Anyway... on with the show Takeoff from Queenstown - nice and sunny, should be a great flight! ENB on with Tim's settings, looked too yellow to me on my system. Nice clouds though! Cruising along at 15,000' ENB off to make changes, notice how dull the colours and shading look without it! Made some adjustments, toned down the yellow quite a bit and added some darkening to the .ini file. Maybe a bit too much. Sky is nice and vibrant, the clouds still look a touch yellow. Ah, that's better. Colour balance looks about right to me. Weather's thickening up ahead, gonna get a chance to see how these settings work out when it's gloomy too Ooooh, some nice overcast conditions forming up as I approach Christchurch Looking back over the airport as I get vectored for an ILS approach into runway 20. Liking the contrast when looking towards the sun here - bright sky, dark cabin. Christchurch looks amazing up close Sky, terrain and weather looking fantastic, but I think I've gone a bit overboard on the darkening amount - the plane probably shouldn't be that dark. Nice even cloudbase at 3,000' as I set up for the approach Probably my favourite shot - happy with the colours, the contrast, and the amount of darkening added to the shady areas. Same pic from a different angle. Think I'll keep these settings for a while. Turning towards the ILS track Flaps deploying and slowing down on approach. Nice hazy effect. Short final and the end of my set. As always guys, let me know what you think - I'm always trying to improve my pics! Cheers, Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
member111333 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 I prefer ENB series off with most cloud sets as most of them become overbright. Too much loss of contrast and detail. The last two pictures look tremendous with the diffuse lighting. Would be interested in your ini settings. Cheers Roland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmo32 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 awesome job derek,these screenie look very real! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Like these a lot Derek, some fine work there indeed. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuisong Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 They sure are fine shots Derek. As I'm new to screen shot I have to ask what is ENB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuisong Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Sorry, another question please Derek. How do you get your signature on the shots? They add a nice touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sightseer Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 I like them. especially shot 8 (in cockpit looking back towards sun over city). I have yet to try the ENB but if you can change sun and shadow color as well as brightness and saturation then I really need to check into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derxtreme Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 great set of shots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davepdx Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Great shots Derek, really dig shot 1. 6 & 7 are like photographs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanTenner Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Great shots. The colors are looking great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek McAllan Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 Thanks for the comments gents. I appreciate the input, and once I get back home to Perth on the weekend I'll dig out my settings to post for those who've asked. Cheers, Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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