Glorious grey sky - what's wrong?

[Manschy]

Hi everybody,

for several days after I upgraded REX Texture Direct and Soft Clouds for P3Dv4, I notice ugly grey sky textures, especially downwards to the horizon:

http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2018/02/22/grey_sky_issue.jpg (http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/image/GbmH)

It seems to be a texture issue when setting with clouds. Do I change to "clear skies" in v4, everything looks fine and clear blue. But as soon as I choose few clouds, the area is grey. Furthermore, I noticed some dirty dark orange clouds on the higher layer (not sure, Cirrus maybe?).

http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2018/02/22/dirty_clouds.jpg (http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/image/GbmI)

This looks weird, because the clouds lower are almost clear white. It's not dusk or dawn, but about noon. Does anybody else notice this issue or maybe can give me a hint to solve it? Thank you in advance.

[roger-wilco-66]

Do you use a shader mod? I noticed that the sim depicts weird anomalies with some settings that manipulate cloud or atmospheric appearance.

If not, you could try to delete the shader cache and start the sim again. Maybe something has gotten out of whack there.



Cheers,
Mark

[Manschy]

Thank you, Mark. Will try this asap!

[Manschy]

No, no shader mod. Meanwhile, I deleted P3d.cfg, deleted shader folder, restore REX textures to time before installing REX - no success so far.

[Manschy]

Okay, feeling like a muppet: Problem 1. is solved (but seems to be strange anyhow): Regarding the grey sky texture, option "volumetric fog" was ticked. Don't know if I did it but can it be possible that any addon (for example FSrealWX I use sometimes) do this by its own? Independently, volumetric fog doesn't look real if the engine simply makes the sky grey....
Problem 2 (dirty dark orange clouds) still exists. I remember they were clear white at the beginning...

[Manschy]

Okay, after I was fed up, I deinstalled and reinstalled my REX stuff including updates. I deleted the shader folder and the P3D.cfg. I really really carefully read all options and setting possibilities in my REX Textures Direct, relinquish FSrealWX for now and voilá: My sky looks healthy again, and my upper cirrus clouds seem to be right out of the laundry.

http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2018/02/24/grey_sky_issue_SOLVED.jpg (http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/image/GbCT)

It's a bad proof of impatient users like me who often install addons with deep faith in the programmes will do the best by its own. Failed in many times! So everything is fine now and thank you all for your assistance! :applause: