Shade is released !

[Daube]

Hi all,

Just found this info on another forum. Shade, the little tool to tweak the lighting and shadows in FSX, has just been released on Flightsimstore.
This animated FIG will explain what it does:
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll121/160873/2011-9-2_20-36-23-949.gif

You can find more info on the official blog:
http://shadeforfsx.blogspot.com/

More screenshots there:
http://www.playhorizon.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4593

[Francois]

VERY nice looking, thanks for the HU !

[flaviossa]

I think the ENB Series does the same thing for free, am i wrong?
I can ajdust contrast, lighting, etc with it adjusting the .ini file

[Roger]

Looks good! I'll have to give this a try as I believe it works differently to ENB and I was never too happy with ENB where frame rates were concerned.

[noddy]

For that price, well worth giving it a go.

[Dain Arns]

I think the ENB Series does the same thing for free, am i wrong?
I can ajdust contrast, lighting, etc with it adjusting the .ini file

As I understand it, yes you are wrong.
'Shade' creates sharper, more defined shadows and light effects based on the mesh you have installed in FSX.
ENB is for the overall lighting.
Seems like many of the testers use ENB in conjunction with Shade.

3rd entry down on this Shade blog page shows an example of Orbx PNW in the morning without using ENB:
http://shadeforfsx.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-08-22T09%3A01%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7

[Dain Arns]

Dug a little more...
Here's a quote from the author of the program in the Shade manual:


Shade has no effect on the use of the ENB series Dll rendering hook for FSX

You can get a copy of the Shade manual here, (this same link is provided at the Shade blog site):
http://hotfile.com/dl/129270364/2960327/Shade_userguide.pdf.html

Looks interesting. The screenshots of PNW using Shade without ENB look good to me.
I never really could get good performance using ENB, maybe Shade will be a better solution.
I'd like to have a little sharper look to FSX, personally.

[flaviossa]

Thanks for the information :salute:
ENB is working here for me, so i will wait for more user feedback before getting this one. I know the price is very nice but i have already too many things "working" in my fsx. Rex, enb, ase, fsc9, traffic ....

[Bomber_12th]

Well, I decided to buy it on a whim, and I can't say I'm disappointed - actually quite impressed by what I have seen in the sim already. My first impressions, is that within the sim, the effects that the program creates, is very similar to what I saw with "ENB", but it doesn't have any connection to 'light bloom', as I believe ENB is (which is fine by me). "Shade" allows you to directly control the brightness/darkness and color of light, shadow, and fog. It provides you with a very easy-to-use user-interface, which allows you to choose one of a good selection of pre-set configurations, or you can make/adjust your own, by selecting individual color/hue swatches, of varying degrees of brightness and darkness.

I wasn't too impressed by the default pre-set configuration (too dark and moody), but choosing one of the pre-sets, called winter chill, it is already quite close to that look that I would like within the sim - much more shading underneath the aircraft and on the ground, while keeping the light rather bright. The program does run in the background, though I haven't noticed a real performance impact.

Here are a few first screenshots of mine, that except for cropping, are purely un-edited, in order to show the programs direct effect. For those who like to 'tinker' with FSX, this is another program that allows you to do that. For those who just want to more/less jump in and go (like me), it provides that too, through the pre-sets. All of the ground-scenery in the shots is pure default FSX, though I look forward to trying it out with some of the excellent scenery addons I have installed.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/shade_1.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/shade_2.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/shade_3.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/shade_4.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/shade_5.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/shade_6.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/shade_7.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/shade_8.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/shade_9.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/Shade_10.jpg

[DarrenL]

I'm getting very tempted right now. I do use ENB but I also use REX and I'm slightly worried about messing REX up possibly. Also I read on the pdf that you run the shader.exe to start FSX, I assume you can point the shader.exe at a batch file instead, as I also run FPSLimiter.

Might need a couple more happy people but I'm almost there.

[YoYo]

John, nice shots but I think will be better if You put screenshots of scenery, not airplane in close camera. Now it looks like Enb, so please to add couple shots of terrain :)

[Bomber_12th]

John, nice shots but I think will be better if You put screenshots of scenery, not airplane in close camera. Now it looks like Enb, so please to add couple shots of terrain :)

Well, it affects everything, including the aircraft - and it is the affect on the aircraft which I really enjoy in itself - in order to get the same contrasts within the screenshots using default FSX, you would have to edit the screenshots.

I tried ENB, but never liked it enough to keep - perhaps because it took too much guess-work to try and get the look I was after, and the performance impact was too much for my tastes (on my older machine).

[Phantom88]

Beautiful shots,that last one is really nice!:jump:

[noddy]

These are using the Blue Daze preset


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[Gizmo]

Hey guys

Some really nice shots there john many thanks for posting them and for your possitive comments about Shade glad to hear you dig it hehe :)

The effect of lighting on the aircraft and cockpit isnt something ive really had time to make comments about either on the blog or in any forums i had been hopping to get a bit more info out there for ppl on what Shade does but FFS kinda got the drop on me with releasing it as i was expecting them to reply to me with a release date ect
but it just appeared forsale! TBO i gotta say that i dont have much of a clue about how stuff for FSX gets sold as this is my first payware release,its my own fault for not asking about this stuff first i guess ;)

& if you havent seen me posting on any FSX forums about shade or bigging it up here or there its because im not into that whole toot your own horn thing,that said i understand that i need to be about for ppl to ask things of me so if anyone has any questions feel free to post them here or PM me and i'll check back to see if i provide the info you need/want or you can always email me @ Shade4FSX+Stuff@gmail.com

Im going to try and get some more lighting presets made up in the next few days but as john pointed out and i made note on in the manual what looks good for me might not look good on everyone else's system,its one of the reasons shade evolved into what it did as orginally it was just going to be a set of preset lighting exe's but my lead beta testers Mark/Redline kicked my ass into making it into what it is now so if you see him about give him a thank you for that ;)

im also going to building a small demo that will allow ppl to checkout 1 or 2 of the presets for a limited time in FSX as i understand ppl want to see if its for them before making a purchase

BTW i've seen a few questions asking about what the performance hit is for using Shade with FSX & i can tell you that its a big fat ZERO (yep you read that right ZERO FPS hit)

FSX has always had this feature for its lighting tones to be altered its just that Shade now gives you an easy way (i hope) to access/customise it to your likeing,and unlike ENB which is post process working outside FSX,shade alters the internal lighting tone settings of FSX so it does no more work than ever did before :)

The small monitor program that is part of the launcher doesnt (should'nt) take up any CPU cycles it just sits an a few mb of ram waiting for the os to let it know when FSX finishes running so it can restore things to as they were,i may add a burn-in feature if a lot of ppl request so you can set and forget,so if thats something you'ed rather have than a launcher just the me know

Thanks again for the kind words

Cheers
Steve AKA Gizmo

[vora]

Just one question I didn't see anywhere answered: is it a DirectX-bound modification (like ENB for DX9)?

On *my* rig the "DX10 Preview" gives me 10 - 20 additional FPS and since I prefer to fly in FTX areas I need all FPS I get. That's why I never considered using ENB and DX9. That was probably the biggest setback of DX10. If your modification can alter colour ramps independent from DirectX it would be great news for me.

[orionll]

The small monitor program that is part of the launcher doesnt (should'nt) take up any CPU cycles it just sits an a few mb of ram waiting for the os to let it know when FSX finishes running so it can restore things to as they were,i may add a burn-in feature if a lot of ppl request so you can set and forget,so if thats something you'ed rather have than a launcher just the me know
I think a burn-in feature would be cool. :jump:

[spotlope]

I think a burn-in feature would be cool. :jump:

Me too, assuming that the original FSX shaders could be backed up somehow before burning. It'd be nice to have one less program to start before FSX.

[Bomber_12th]

Here are some more screenshots, this time flying around ORBX PNW. Again, this is just one of the presets, so results will vary depending on which preset you choose, or settings you make yourself. Once again, these screenshots, apart from being cropped, are un-edited, thus the enhanced contrasts you see in the terrain, on the aircraft, etc., are a result of "Shade", exactly as experienced within the sim.

(You can view the images in full-saved resolution, by opening them individually in a new tab)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/cessna_shade_1.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/cessna_shade_2.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/cessna_shade_3.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/cessna_shade_4.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/cessna_shade_5.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/cessna_shade_6.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/cessna_shade_7.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/cessna_shade_8.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/cessna_shade_9.jpg

[warchild]

i went to purchase this, like i normally purchase anything from flightsim, and got an error message 05 do not honor.. Thinking that was quite odd, i went back and tried making the purchase again using a straight payment from my bank with my debit cvard. again 05 do not honor..
Now, theres 300 dollars in there at the moment till i pay my electric and network bill ( shudder) so i know i'm not overdrawn and I gave my bank a call.. They show the card as active, but they investigated while i went off to call VISA.. Visa confirmed my card is active but couldn't confirm anything else.. Back to the bank i go.. They did their homework.. Your add-on according to VISA is BANNED in the US.. apparently they think its a prescription or gambling or some odd stupid thing.. anyway. its a real shame. i would have loved to have had this, but at this point, it appears i'll never be able to do business through flight sim again..
Sad.. very very sad..

Pam

[flaviossa]

Don´t know if it has something to do, but my credit card refused the buy here in Brazil too. (Yes, it´s an international card with funds...) :kilroy:

[Timbohobo]

Fast easy hassle free purchase, only 10 bucks, 3mb download, ZERO fps hit, works with ENB beautifully, too easy!

Up and running withing seconds of purchase, idiot proof configuration, I did not even read the manual :)

http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshots/images/3822011_9_8_20_27_4_903.jpg
http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshots/images/2572011_9_8_20_27_12_247.jpg
http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshots/images/1342011_9_8_20_24_23_616.jpg
http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshots/images/9842011_9_8_20_29_4_620.jpg

Thanks Steve!

[warchild]

well, considering that flightsim lost my original account information and i had to create a new account, i'd say something is snafu on their end..
::sigh::

[orionll]

Me too, assuming that the original FSX shaders could be backed up somehow before burning. It'd be nice to have one less program to start before FSX.
Wait, so it is shader based? After reading the manual, I got the impression that it was modifying fsx.exe.

[YoYo]

Fast easy hassle free purchase, only 10 bucks, 3mb download, ZERO fps hit, works with ENB beautifully, too easy!

Up and running withing seconds of purchase, idiot proof configuration, I did not even read the manual :)
Thanks Steve!

Thx. Are You user of ENB too on this screenshots?

[Timbohobo]

Thx. Are You user of ENB too on this screenshots?

Yes there is some minimal ENB in use also, but all it does is the shimmery horizon effect.

I have attached my own personal ENB.ini below if it interests you, the example that is shipped with Shade makes everything really blurry

47947

[YoYo]

Ok, thank You. I will try Yours. Im user of deafult ENB and Im very happy to use it. Different settings here, on Flight 1 Forum (did by member of GEX team ) http://www.simforums.com/forums/enb-bloom-mod-nicks-cOnfig-updated_topic32482.html

[dvj]

I have not done any landscapes yet with Shade, but the default setting right out the box so to speak does wonderful dawn shots on airplanes. The shading on these models is a whole new expereince.

Here are 4 unedited screenies:

47949

47950

47951

47952

[Gizmo]

Hey Guys

Not sure whats going on with the "US do not honor" payment thing??? i'll fire adrian and email and see if he has any clue???

Pam i just got your mail and am replying now so check it when you read this :)

& Again some great shots posted here :) i knew that my slack attemps at capturing the change that shade can bring to FSX would soon be eclipsed by all you screenshot crazy guys hehe,maybe i should run a screenshot competition

@TimHarris

Many thanks for your kind words :) i really glad to see the effort i put into the flow of the GUI worked and that someone (even though your a dev do you still count as a normal person hehe) could just jump right in and get going with it,i've again got to thank mark/redline for pointing out when i started to overwork the GUI during testing

I'll see about getting a set and forget option added this weekend either as an update or a small exe that will burn in your last loaded presets

btw I'll check back later and do a proper read of this thread

Cheers
steve

[vora]

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http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshots/images/1342011_9_8_20_24_23_616.jpg

...



Holy Batman, is that the Macdonnell Range around Alice? I'm hoping for YBAS to be the next aussie release after YMEN. Please say it's so, Tim... :kilroy:

[Timbohobo]

Yes, Around 'gooses bluff', about 95nm west of Alice Springs, probably some of the most stunning folded strata you will ever see!

YBAS? while I cannot speak of dates/details, I can say the beta version I have of Alice is stunning :)


@Steve, yes please! a set-n-forget option would be great

[noddy]

Have to say a job well done, a great addon to enchance FSX further. :applause:

[atf300]

if its shader based , how does it work with ATI shader 3 fix from Jesus Bojote ? any ati users care to comment on this ?

[Gizmo]

Hey guys

Many thanks for the kind words :) im really glad its been so well received & that ppl "get" how to use it without to much confusion (i have yet to check reaction on other sites/forums yet though! as i came here first because you guys are pretty cool about stuff and tell it like it is)

As requested ive built a small GUI that will allow you to backup/restore the current FSX light values aswell & set and forget/burn-in your Current Shade GUI values

Linky & info is in THIS (http://shadeforfsx.blogspot.com/2011/09/set-forget.html) Shade blog post

I have a little bit of code separation atm as the Shade 1.0 code is on my laptop which out of reach for a day or 2 but as soon as i get back to it i'll intergrate the burn-in feature to the main GUI and add some day cycle file saves so ppl can explore setting up 10 diffrent days of lighting a little easier) and get a 1.01 update out

Ive spoken with Adrian and he says if anyone has any payment problems they'll need to contact Flightsimstore to resolve them they are nothing todo with myself,i havent the foggist as to why it might be blocked for sale in the US ?????

@vora
(http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/member.php?40802-vora)
The only issue i found with testing Shade with the DX10 preview of FSX is that all the custom lighting Values we set seem to be much brighter/intense than when rendered via DX9 pipe this means that you might need to go in & tweak some of the presets a little more than ppl on DX9,so much like Aces i'll say it works but you might have to tune it to your system a little bit

I'll be knocking up a cut down demo over the next week so ppl can give it a run out with a few presets to see if they like it,i did want to get that ready to go with the main release but if i kept hangging i dout any of it wouldnt have ever seen the light of day this atleast having Shade out there gives me a kick in the ass to get the rest sorted out ;)

Thanks & Again some fantastic Screenshots here (im defo going to see about a screenshot comp)
Steve

[Gizmo]

if its shader based , how does it work with ATI shader 3 fix from Jesus Bojote ? any ati users care to comment on this ?

Well it is and it is'nt Shader Base (despite the name Shade) and as Bojote SM3.0 update still parses the same values for its lighting tones as the normal SM 1.1/2.0 code does the end result is just the same

btw im not beginning to realise just how fraggmented the FSX communites End User FSX install really is !

I'll make sure i add this info to the blog and the 1.1 manual

Cheers
steve

[Oelwanne]

Looks fantastic!! Off to download! :jump:
BTW: Mogwaisoft.... is the Name Mogwai related to that great Band?

[Gizmo]

Hi Oelwanne

Mogwaisoft is more related you my nickname that i picked up at my first real job
just check out my icon hehe

i guess i'll be reciving an email about how close it is to M$ pretty soon thought ;)

Cheers
steve

BTW i wont be about online tonight as im off out for a post release Curry & :icon29:

[DarrenL]

Mogwaisoft is more related you my nickname that i picked up at my first real job

So you worked the night shift, don't like getting wet and never eat after midnight?

:icon_lol:

[YoYo]

My examples. Just short test. I think its good idea to create in Programm some themes like f.ex. in REX ?
Many options for tests, and GUI is a little difficult to know from the first time (must read manual).

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1786/shade1.jpg http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/5082/shade3.jpg http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6692/shade2z.jpg http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2148/shade4.jpg http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6793/shade5.jpg http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4990/shade6.jpg




I wasn't too impressed by the default pre-set configuration (too dark and moody), but choosing one of the pre-sets, called winter chill,
Where Did You find it ?

[Gizmo]

Where Did You find it ?

Press the load Preset button to in the main shade GUI for a list of about 13 presets
you can load/tweak

I found setting up presets a bit hit or miss tones wise TOH, some things that looked great for me looked overly dark for other testers and getting there tweaked versions back and then loaded on my system they then seemed washed out/dull,it just goes to show how different ppls systems really are

Im going to have a look at adding some FS9 tone presets this weekend (if i can pull there values from FS9) as i've seen a few posts before now from ppl wishing there fsx lighting was like that of FS9

If anyone has any tweaked presets they like to share plz either mail them tome or add them as attachments and i'll host them at the shade blog

Laters
steve

[vora]

The only issue i found with testing Shade with the DX10 preview of FSX is that all the custom lighting Values we set seem to be much brighter/intense than when rendered via DX9 pipe this means that you might need to go in & tweak some of the presets a little more than ppl on DX9,so much like Aces i'll say it works but you might have to tune it to your system a little bit
You're my hero! And anyways, FSX'ers are tweaking pros by default :icon_lol:



So I have to go and throw some plastic at Adrian :running:

[YoYo]

Some new shots. I used ENB by Author of Shade (Gizmo). This ENB is fantastic! Now the night is the night with ENB "on" too! In day, not big difference. The last, dont know what is it. Sunday bloody Sunday for sure ;) .

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4672/shade8.jpg http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/1329/shade7.jpg http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/910/shade9.jpg http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/4458/shade10.jpg

[Dain Arns]

.... The last, dont know what is it. Sunday bloody Sunday for sure .

Back home we called it Alpenglow.

47995

Where are Gizmo's ENB settings at that you used? I like the looks of it in that first picture.

[newcomer]

Where are Gizmo's ENB settings at that you used? I like the looks of it in that first picture.[/QUOTE]

I think it´s the one that is included in the "Shade" folder within FSX - enbseries.ini is hidden in the "Goodies" subfolder.

[Roger]

I really like Shade but...does it only function well with ENB? I was hoping that Shade would replace ENB as ENB is a frame rate hog on my system?

[warchild]

Ok, so, I got things worked out for me and was able to download and install shade with no problem. A word tothose who like me always expect to simply install a program and run it. Reboot your machine after you install this. it will relieve a LOT of frustration..
first thing i did was create my own preset. the second thing i did was fly two flights. one with my own preset and one with blue daze.. I have to admit, i'm impressed..
Hope you enjoy..
Pam

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k171/urushira/2011-9-9_13-15-31-801.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k171/urushira/2011-9-9_11-51-53-755.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k171/urushira/2011-9-9_12-17-14-983.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k171/urushira/2011-9-9_12-24-20-642.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k171/urushira/2011-9-9_13-9-9-890.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k171/urushira/2011-9-9_9-55-21-571.jpg

[shaggy]

I cant find a singel link of where to buy this nice looking addon. Can anyone get me in the right direction or give me a direct link for buying and downloading.

[wallyboard]

I cant find a singel link of where to buy this nice looking addon. Can anyone get me in the right direction or give me a direct link for buying and downloading.

Try this;

http://www.flightsimstore.com/product_info.php?products_id=1894&osCsid=e980i7qp9 1fbcn1n0gefd1v4a1

Larry

[Bomber_12th]

I really like Shade but...does it only function well with ENB? I was hoping that Shade would replace ENB as ENB is a frame rate hog on my system?

It can work with ENB, and it can work without ENB. For instance, all of my screenshots show Shade working without ENB.

[warchild]

Likewise, i also dont use enb and the shots above are all without it..

[Roger]

It can work with ENB, and it can work without ENB. For instance, all of my screenshots show Shade working without ENB.

Thanks John:ernae:

[timghetta]

I love this. Really brings FSX alive, feels like I just got a new version of the Sim.
Taking screen shots are incredible.

I have to say, Steve you did a fabulous job on creating this, and Thank you.

Tim

[modelr]

Ok, I just bought Shade, looks fantastic, will try it out tomorrow after work.

But first I have a question... Lots of references in the thread to/about ENB. I guess I missed it when it came out, or any discussion of it. Where can I get it, so I can check it out on my machine?

[Flyboy208]

A little OT, but Pam, your P-61 project looks amazing !!! Mike :jump:

[Dain Arns]

I think it´s the one that is included in the "Shade" folder within FSX - enbseries.ini is hidden in the "Goodies" subfolder.

Okay. Have only had enough time to run a couple flights.
I'll check out that folder in the morning, thank you! :wavey:

[butchm]

Hey Steve,

Your back! :jump: in impressive style too. :salute:

Hope this means everything is well, congratulation on the app love your little progy, +1 from me for set and forget.

Cheers
Butch

[YoYo]

Over Tatras.

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/6981/shade13.jpg http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/7139/shade12.jpg http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/2189/shade14.jpg

[limjack]

Very impressive!! Thanks all for all the screenies everyone ( they sold me on this app). Will be picking this up when time allows.

Jim

[timghetta]

@YoYo,

whcih preset is that? Love the sunset.

[noddy]

Desert preset, taken at 5.40 pm over MegaScenery SoCal


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[skyhawka4m]

going to go buy this now....looks great

[warchild]

There was some discussion yesterday about Shade making things too dark, and i wanted to show you that that just doesnt have to be the case.. I made my own preset yesterday ( took me a whole ten minutes cuz its all laid out in color selection blocks ) and then i went chasing thunder storms in the mouse.
Now, before i post these i want to explain something about camera's.. you see, I know that what you see when you walk outside and look at a car or plane or anything really is one thing, but even if you used the finest camera on earth, it wouldnt see the same thing. Thats because the human eye can see OVER 2000 levels of brightness and contrast. Film, regardless of whether its silver or digital is limited to only a fraction of that by its very nature. So, all images in the end, look unreal. Dont believe me?? Look at any photograph. Does it look real?? no, it looks like a picture. Thats because not all the information is there. Several hundred levels of light and contrast are missing.
So, that means, that Shade, although an amazing piece of software, is limited by the camera in which you view it through. Theres no way to make something look exactly real, but, within its limitations, it can do some pretty remarkable things pretty easily..

Pam

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k171/urushira/2011-9-9_22-51-0-514.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k171/urushira/2011-9-9_22-55-43-853.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k171/urushira/2011-9-9_23-1-46-948.jpg

And thank you.. I love Our P-61 to death. Hope you all do too when its completed..

[CG_1976]

:salute:Beautiful Shots Pam.

[Bomber_12th]

Here are some notes about using Shade, and making your own settings...

Each day in FSX, there are 14 different individual lighting/shading conditions, from Pre-Dawn to Post-Sunset/Midnight. When making your own values for light and shade, you must individually create/adjust both the light and shade values for each of those 14 different conditions throughout the course of a day in FSX. In creating the values, you are provided the entire PC color spectrum palette, including the lightness/darkness slider, and red/green/blue and hue/sat./lum. value boxes. This allows you to, individually, adjust how dark you want the shade, or how bright you want the light, for any time of the day, with as little to, or as much change, as you could want. When you are done establishing the look you want for one day, you can individually set a different look for any of the other days within the FSX 10-day cycle, or you can simply clone the first day to all of the others.

For instance, last night I worked on making my own preset - which admittedly took a bit longer than 10-minutes. What I did was use the default-FSX lighting/shading condition values as there would be without Shade running (which it provides you to see!), and I copied that same value, by simply copying the color numbers provided. But then I made each of the shading values a bit darker, and each of the light values a bit lighter, so as to provide more contrast than there would be by default. As a result, I was able to directly control the amount of extra light and extra shading that there would be, individually for each time of the day.

When you have so much room to play with, you can spend quite a while I am sure, adjusting until you reach just that right look you want, or at least something close to it. Your choices will also obviously depend on the sky textures you have installed, which will vary in lightness/darkness/color themselves, so one profile of Shade settings will not look as proper with one set of sky textures, as they might with another. However, Shade makes it quite easy, in that it shows you an image of the sky texture installed, for each time of the day, so the values you pick, especially color-wise, you can work to match to the sky texture.

For me, personally, I am most interested in making the under-belly shadows on aircraft darker than what default FSX provides, which to me, from both seeing first-hand, and within countless photographs for however long I have been, isn't near enough. Shade allows you to improve this, but also by offering you all of the options available, it can very easily go too far as well.

[warchild]

Your right John.. and I'm actually beginning to view shade not so much as a correctional utility, but a pallet and canvas on which to create. When i set up my preset yesterday, i simply set all the lighting and shadows to the way i see light and shadows on a daily basis by looking out the door.. It wasnt perfecty believe me, but i was impressed enough that i want to work on it more.. I'm also thinking of tackling the worst lighting conditions i know of.. Tornado and hurricane weather.
::lol:; its a hell of a paint Kit.. Thank you Gizmo :) :)
Pam

[Bomber_12th]

Here's another shot of the Skywagon over PNW, using the "Winter Chills" preset during the late evening.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/mustang_shade7.jpg

And on a pass-through Seattle harbor in the Spit, during mid-afternoon, with the same preset.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/mustang_shade6.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/mustang_shade5.jpg

[YoYo]

VFRPoland.

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[Kiwikat]

I just took my first flight with it and I'm extremely impressed! The best part wasn't how it affected the scenery, but how it affected the airplane. The VC basically now has shadowing without having to enable it in the FS menu. Sure it doesn't have the same effect as the VC shadowing but that's fine. It also makes the shadowing on the exterior of the aircraft a lot better as well.

Awesome utility for an even more awesome price! Well done!!! :jump: :salute:

[YoYo]

So sorry, but cant stop doing screenshots with this tool ! :icon_lol:

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/594/shade20.jpg http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/7680/shade18.jpg http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5522/shade19.jpg

The last in full version: http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5522/shade19.jpg (no edited)

[warchild]

yeahhh, its almost enough to make you cry from joy isnt it?? I'm lovin this..

[Mithrin]

Really enjoy this little addon. Less bleak, more contrast ftw!

[warchild]

THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO HAS ISSUED A HURRICANE WARNING FROM TUXPAN TO VERACRUZ. THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO HAS ISSUED A HURRICANE WATCH FROM SOUTH OF VERACRUZ TO PUNTA EL LAGARTO. SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT... A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR... * MEXICO FROM TUXPAN TO VERACRUZ


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[warchild]

i went up to 30000 feet to try and get a look at this weather system.. As you can see below, its huge.. Noaa is recommending the residents do whatever they can to ensure life ( not just their safety )..

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k171/urushira/2011-9-10_16-27-13-8.jpg

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[Kiwikat]

Pam, quit teasin us with that widow >;o

:173go1:

Dare I say this is going to become one of those must-have utilities for FSX? I can't believe the difference it makes for the price. This is epic bang/buck!

[warchild]

heheh.. sorry. its my favorite plane, especially flying into hurricanes. At only a couple thousand pounds less than an empty c-27 its footprint is only a third the size making extremely stable in adverse conditions.. The worlds first official storm chaser.. :)..
but really, what i'm trying to show off isnt the plane, its the extreme latitude you can achieve with Shade.. Modeling that exact sickening green color you get in a supercerll storm ( tornado and oddly hurricanes too ) is majorly difficult, but as you can see, i got pretty close on my first try.. just need to darken it a bit.. When i can look at it and it triggers my ptsd I know i got it right..

[ryanbatc]

And thank you.. I love Our P-61 to death. Hope you all do too when its completed..

It's looking good! Will it be payware?

[warchild]

Its kind of an odd form of donation ware.. Its free to members of SOH, but a person has to join soh to aquire it.. Their names gotta be in red :)..
All proceeds from it will go to support SOH ..

[dvj]

Shade This! I'm loving the effect at dawn :applause:
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[skyhawka4m]

an awesome add-on.......it has changed textures to a new level.

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[jeansy]

well done on this add-on steve

[robertorizzo]

Bought it yesterday.
I consider it the first must have for FSX.
Now it's a month I'm working on a rather complex FSX video and i have to throw all my shootings and get new ones, since Shade has changed the state of the art.
Very very good work!

[Lenop]

an awesome add-on.......it has changed textures to a new level.

48061

now that looks amazing!
Loving what Shade does for FSX. Just so much more atmosphere.

[spatialpro]

I was just wondering whether Shade will work with nvidia 3D? If so, what refresh rate should be set in the Shade controls?

[robcap]

I see on their site they're working on a small update. I'll wait till next week to buy. Seems like a must have!

R.

[albatros]

Maybe the Ausies are crazy with the Rugby champioship.
I have been a customer for many years.
I purchased Shade, they charged my Credit Card, but can not download as they say my card is a fraud......
My God....ten dollars.....I have more than 500 US dollars in purchases.
Hope they will be in other places such as Avsimshop, Flightsimshop so I can enjoy the Shade.

[Gizmo]

Maybe the Ausies are crazy with the Rugby champioship.
I have been a customer for many years.
I purchased Shade, they charged my Credit Card, but can not download as they say my card is a fraud......
My God....ten dollars.....I have more than 500 US dollars in purchases.
Hope they will be in other places such as Avsimshop, Flightsimshop so I can enjoy the Shade.

Hi albatros (http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/member.php?58783-albatros)

Im sure if you contact FFS info@flightsimstore.com with the details they'll get the problem sorted out for you,I've had blips like this in the past with many a online transaction and im sure they'll do there best to resovle things for you

I do have plans to host Shade elsewhere but FFS was pretty stright forward for
getting it out there for ppl,i will be contacting other hosts during the following week

Again may thanks for the support you guys/girls have shown for myself/Shade and the help you've given each other and the amazing screenshots you've posted

Im sorry if some sections (or all) of the manual are a little hard to decipher and some info is missing but i do suffer from dyslexia (not trying to us that as a shield im just letting ppl know) and it can be a bit of a struggle sometimes for me to get the point across in a clear way

Ive been told my PR sucks aswell hehe so im going to see about running a
Supporters/Review/Link banner competition it the next few days and a Shade with\without comparision video comp after that

I just need mail a few ppl to ask if its cool that i give there products away as prizes
first

Im working on the burn in feature for 1.01 so you can set and forget as well as having the gui keep the last loaded preset for each day after a gui restart and i'll be adding more/tweaked presets so if you have any you'ed like to share plz attach them here or just mail them to me and i'll get them added

Oh one other thing Jay at Ozx has been very kind in excepting my request for a small GD\support section in there forums for SHADE so i can try and keep all this stuff im one place

Thanks again for all your help and support you guys Rock :)

Cheers
steve

[albatros]

Hi Steve,

Thank you very much for your reply. I seems that the Steve's are great chaps.
You remember me to the orther Steve http://codelegend.com/. Both are improving their programs and taken care of the simmers that write about ideas and support.
I am sure Shade is a great program and eventualy I will be able to get it and enjoy.

Please post it in FlighSin.com. They are nice people and always helpfull giving a great service.

Best regards,

Luis

[warchild]

::chuckles:: Shade is like a piccolo. If you can select a color from a color wheel you can use shade. Its that simple. But like a piccolo it may take years to master..

[warchild]

Maybe the Ausies are crazy with the Rugby champioship.
I have been a customer for many years.
I purchased Shade, they charged my Credit Card, but can not download as they say my card is a fraud......
My God....ten dollars.....I have more than 500 US dollars in purchases.
Hope they will be in other places such as Avsimshop, Flightsimshop so I can enjoy the Shade.

Albatross.

I dont know what it is, but theres been a few of us that have seen problems with purchasing where either we are accused of fraud, or the product is banned in the United States.. The solution at the moment is to contact Flight Sim store and tell them what happened. They're a pretty good bunch of blokes there and will work with you to straighten things out..
Pam

[albatros]

Albatross.

I dont know what it is, but theres been a few of us that have seen problems with purchasing where either we are accused of fraud, or the product is banned in the United States.. The solution at the moment is to contact Flight Sim store and tell them what happened. They're a pretty good bunch of blokes there and will work with you to straighten things out..
Pam

Thank you warchild, I will contact Flight Sim Store. I have purchased several items and harware from them and there are very nice and helpfull.

Sorry for Steve, but I am sure he will post his job in Flight Sim Store/

Greetings.

[papab]

These shots are from BC using ORBX PNW and flying out of a small gravel strip Scar Creek (CBA7)...Take off heading SW..

The Preset I used was Winters Chill
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No editing done

Rick

[albatros]

Thank you warchild, I will contact Flight Sim Store. I have purchased several items and harware from them and there are very nice and helpfull.

Sorry for Steve, but I am sure he will post his job in Flight Sim Store/

Greetings.

Finally, FlightSim Store has release the program and I have installed. They find out there was no fraud at all.
I thank all the chaps that reply to my predicament, included Steve.

Saludos amigos.

Luis

[skyhawka4m]

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[timghetta]

See the vapor on the wings? I notice that with some of the presets with the dark color. BTW, great pics, especially that F-86 awhile back.

[limjack]

Quick question, when you purchase this app... Does it come with a extra "V" key in case you wear it out from screen shots?

Jim

[skyhawka4m]

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[noddy]

Cracking shots. :salute:

[delta558]

A couple from me, using the 'A brighter light' preset: I find this has a really good effect on busy airports.4822348224

[skyblazer3]

One of the best addons I've ever purchased. Finally we have lighting in FSX.

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[VCN-1]

Is this addon as complicated as it seems to be?

Or can changes be made easily without having a PhD in computer science?


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[delta558]

It's not at all difficult - probably any instructions written here would make it sound overly complicated, but it's on a par with doing a 'custom install' of FSX in terms of difficulty setting it up. Once it's set up, even changing between presets and starting FSX is only a couple of clicks.

It may get more difficult if you want to get into creating your own presets, but the program itself to set up and use is really straightforward.

[UnknownGuest12]

Its kind of an odd form of donation ware.. Its free to members of SOH, but a person has to join soh to aquire it.. Their names gotta be in red :)..
All proceeds from it will go to support SOH ..

Think it's compatible with Orbx and GEX Europe, no?

Free to SOH Members with name in red? Good......thanks....where and how can I get it?

Regards

[YoYo]

Think it's compatible with Orbx and GEX Europe, no?

Free to SOH Members with name in red? Good......thanks....where and how can I get it?

Regards

He talk about Black Widow. Not finished yet.
About SHADE - sure, its compatibile addon with any addons too.

[skyhawka4m]

I'm curious about the "red name"...how does this happen? I see people with shorter memberships than I do with red names? what qualifies you for this?

[DarrenL]

I'm curious about the "red name"...how does this happen? I see people with shorter memberships than I do with red names? what qualifies you for this?

I think it's if you donate (on the menu bar) but since it uses Paypal (something I don't use and will never use) I can't.

[warchild]

Creating presets is extremely easy. Click on light shadow or fog drop downs and choose a color. save it.. thats it..

[Killbilly]

I think it's if you donate (on the menu bar) but since it uses Paypal (something I don't use and will never use) I can't.

Yeah, I have wanted to donate to SOH for quite a long time (as this site has given me quite a lot over the years); but since Paypal gave my credit card information to someone else somehow, I won't ever use it again. I would like to see another option, too.

Back on topic: I am going to have to pick up this addon. It looks amazing. Does anyone know if it works with other pre-loaded addons like AIcarriers or Aerotow?

[robcap]

Quick question, when you purchase this app... Does it come with a extra "V" key in case you wear it out from screen shots?Very Funny!!:ernae:

[Bomber_12th]

Creating presets is extremely easy. Click on light shadow or fog drop downs and choose a color. save it.. thats it..

Except, make sure you don't forget to do that for each of the 14 different sky textures/times of day, for day 1 alone, as laid out at the bottom of the Shade GUI - by selecting/clicking on each sky texture/time of day, and individually setting the light, shadow, and fog colors/shades for each of them. Otherwise, all you are doing is setting these perameters for the first, earliest time of day, and it will have no affect on any of the other times of day. ; )

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/GUI.jpg

[DarrenL]

I'm waiting till the end of the week (roughly) for the updated fire and forget version. :)

[UnknownGuest12]

He talk about Black Widow. Not finished yet.
About SHADE - sure, its compatibile addon with any addons too.

OOOPS............

thanks....

[papab]

I'm curious about the "red name"...how does this happen? I see people with shorter memberships than I do with red names? what qualifies you for this?

First of every year, SOH has a drive to obtain funds to help with the site
If you donated your name was changed to RED

Rick

[papab]

Yeah, I have wanted to donate to SOH for quite a long time (as this site has given me quite a lot over the years); but since Paypal gave my credit card information to someone else somehow, I won't ever use it again. I would like to see another option, too.

Back on topic: I am going to have to pick up this addon. It looks amazing. Does anyone know if it works with other pre-loaded addons like AIcarriers or Aerotow?


When I donated this year I used my charge card-worked fine
Rick

[jeansy]

is anyone else experiencing this

but every time i use it, it reverts my FSX.cfg setting back to the default settings ie texture load, terrain radius

has anyone else had this?

[warchild]

i'm probably stating the obvious here, and shooting in the complete wrong direction, but upon closing fsx, Shade unloads itself and resets everything back to default..

[jeansy]

Thanks pam,

i was guessing that, its just frustrating changing the fsx.cfg every time i want to fly, im left wondering why it doesnt create a backup and work from that instead resting the values to default

otherwise than that small thing, its a great little program

something for steve to think about i guess

[warchild]

Well, the nice thing is that once you have saved your preset, you simp[ly start up shade, load your preset, and click on the "start stuff" tab at the bottom.. in there you canstart up fsx and it will load your preset for you to fly with..

[jeansy]

thanks PAM

well on another good note

his forum is up

http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/forum/169-mogwaisoft-shade/

[Kiwikat]

Yeah, I have wanted to donate to SOH for quite a long time (as this site has given me quite a lot over the years); but since Paypal gave my credit card information to someone else somehow, I won't ever use it again. I would like to see another option, too.

I do believe people have mailed personal checks before. I'm sure if you want to donate the SOH staff can find a way... :wavey:

[warchild]

thanks PAM

well on another good note

his forum is up

http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/forum/169-mogwaisoft-shade/

Awesome.. I'm actually hoping that a repository can be created somewhere where we can all upload and share our personal presets.. :)..

[Kiwikat]

I'm actually hoping that a repository can be created somewhere where we can all upload and share our personal presets.. :)..

I was hoping for that too, though so I could leech other peoples' presets, not upload my own... :173go1:

[noddy]

That would be a great idea to have a central area.

[oldpropfan]

but every time i use it, it reverts my FSX.cfg setting back to the default settings ie texture load, terrain radius



Jeansy, I just finished a flight using Shade earlier tonight and after seeing your post checked my cfg, all of my mods were still there. At least in my case it's not giving me back the default settings.

Al

[jeansy]

Jeansy, I just finished a flight using Shade earlier tonight and after seeing your post checked my cfg, all of my mods were still there. At least in my case it's not giving me back the default settings.

Al

hmm ok i just doubled checked mine and it did it again, dunno

i might re install it

[danyboy21]

Preset are .SLP format. They can be uploaded on any site, no ?

[VCN-1]

I broke down and bought it. I must be reading more into this than most people because I don't seem to have caught on to the mechanics.

I want to load a preset, Mellow Yellow as an example and start FSX.

I must be really dense because I can't figure it.
I guess pain medication will do that to you.

Is this a simple 3 or 4 click process or does it take 50-60 clicks?

VCN-1

[Bomber_12th]

VCN-1, after you make sure to have read the manual:

1. Start the "Shade_GUI" program, by clicking on the desktop icon
2. Select 'Load Day 1 From Preset'
3. Select a preset and 'Open'
4. Select 'Clone Day 1' to apply the preset to each day of the FSX 10-day cycle
5. Close-out of the "Shade_GUI" program
6. Start the "Shade" program from the desktop icon, which will then start FSX for you

I hope this helps! And obviously this is the simplest, 'get in and go' routine. If you are happy with a preset that you have chosen, then all you need to do is start the "Shade" program to start FSX with the preset installed.

[delta558]

In your shade folder, open shade GUI. Choose 'Load Day 1 from a Preset', towards the middle of the box and select your preset. Close shade GUI. Double click 'shade.exe' in the same folder, you should get a message that it's inserting into FSX, then it'll tell you it's starting FSX. That's it (hopefully).

[VCN-1]

John

Thanks for the instructions.

Looks as if I can handle that.

Which preset is the most dramatic as far being able to see the significant changes.

Again thanks for taking the time to explain it to a dunce.

VCN-1

[Bomber_12th]

I'm not sure which specific one will show the most changes, but "Winter Chills" is my favorite of all of the presets I have looked at, trying to reach the most authentic, real-to-life look. Having said that, I have also modified "Winter Chills" into one of my own presets, correcting a few attributes that weren't quite how I would want them.

To answer your question in a different way, "Winter Chills" will give you enough to notice a change. If you are looking for the most difference applied to scenery/terrain, it is easiest to see this at dusk and dawn hours. However, the effect works all day and night within the sim, and during mid-day, you will see that your aircraft has much more shading applied to its surfaces that are not in direct-light, than there would be with the default FSX shading.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Bomber_12th/mustang_shade2.jpg

[danyboy21]

After the tabs "day 1" to "day 10" there is a tab called start stuff. Click on "start shade_NL". This has the action to close shade GUI and load the settings in FSX. Just after, you can launch Fs

[VCN-1]

Using Shade_GUI I notice there is a Start Stuff tab. If you click on it there is a button you can use to start Shade/FSX.

Thanks for the help.

VCN-1

[danyboy21]

Gizmo has release a "default presets" file on OZX : http://aussiex.org/forum/

[roger-wilco-66]

Love it....

[Gizmo]

Hey Guys

Sorry about not dropping by in the past day or so ive been working on some stuff for 1.01 this morning and i got dragged out to help fix some wind damage this afternoon (had the tail end of hurricane katia hit the UK earlyer this week) Again thanks for the fantastic support you've shown for this little app and for each other :)

@jeansy

Not sure why your getting a FSX.cfg reset???? Shade doesnt touch the FSX.cfg file in anyway shape or form,can i ask are you running any other kind of FSX autostarting app or making any changes to the insim options? (you dont have that texture load reset service running by any chance do you ?) also have you checked to see if the Cfg is getting re-seting without you running shade.exe?

Is anyone else seeing this re-seting cfg problem here? i havent received any reports of this from anyone else,i dont see it and it never came up in testing very strange but hope we can find out what the cause is though

Cheers
steve

[Scratch]

I'm really enjoying the screenshots y'all are posting. They all look like Noddy took them.

[dvj]

Yes guys, this shade thing is very keul.

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[guyneild]

Liking the look of this, I will track this forum and when the update is ready I will purchase from you :icon29:

Some fantastic pictures gent's :applause: Thank you.

[JIMJAM]

1st impressions.
Did a quick read through and hit the shade gui. Opened a desert preset.loaded and then ran the exe which loaded fsx. At KEDW I quickly noticed it was lighter and a tan tone. I was dying to see some shadowing effects but cannot find any ???
Loaded a couple others,verified shadows in FSX graphics was on. Ran to some mountains and still see no shadows.
This is mid day, KEDW and otehr 3rs parties are Active Sky EVO, FEX and ULT.
Its getting late but I am still waiting for that one magic screen to appear so its off to more tweaking.


Edit- Ok Im feeling it now. I have played with a few lighting programs and alot turned sunset into mars and all around looked like a comic book. This one "at least the presets" are less dramatic and realistic, a good thing. From what I see this is a sunset flyers and screenshot artist dream. For me I will probably set it and forget about it. I have a new 40 inch led that super bright and bleaching the graphics. I am going to try and use this prog to enrichen the colors and add some surprises to each day.

[spotlope]

As it looks like you figured out already, midday is the worst time to try and find shadows. Early or late in the day is where it really... uh... shines. That's true for real life too though, I suppose.

[guzler]

Ive settled on the 'winter chills' present. It's still a tad dark with the ENB thing on, but love the mist and rich colours.

[papab]

Went to Flightsim Store and redownloaded Shade
Seems to still be the original version
Rick

[DarrenL]

Went to Flightsim Store and redownloaded Shade
Seems to still be the original version
Rick

Go to the Shade page and click on the Notification bit, you will get an email when the v1.1 update is available. :)

[papab]

Thanks
Rick

[skyhawka4m]

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[warchild]

Gorgeous work Skyhawk. And it reminded me. The Round the world race is ponly a few months away. Its time for pilots to pull out those mustangs and other fast movers they have and start practicing :)..
Pam

[OleBoy]

I am interested in shade. Although I am hoping for presets already melded into it that work for my intentions. I've never been one for anymore than 3 clicks of the mouse to go flying., but it looks fantastic for taking screenshots!! Not my game. Hopefully there will be included presets for different parts of the worlds climates. I'd bite then.

[guzler]

There are some presets, I've settled for 'Winter Chills', haven't got the desire to go messing about. I'm pretty pleased with it now, it gives FSX the deptth of colour that it never had.

[RudiJG1]

New version (1.01) is now available at the FLight Sim Store.

[skyhawka4m]

New version (1.01) is now available at the FLight Sim Store.



Is there a listing somewhee of the changes? I'm very happy with what I have now and would hate to loose it unless the changeas are drastic in nature.

[Gizmo]

Is there a listing somewhee of the changes? I'm very happy with what I have now and would hate to loose it unless the changeas are drastic in nature.

http://shadeforfsx.blogspot.com/2011/09/101-is-off-to-ffs.html

Before you install 1.01 fire up the 1.0 gui and make a note of your presets(if you've resaved them but with the same name back them up first,after 1.01 is installed you'll have to reload/clone in the 1.01 gui as by default 1.01 now has a diffrent preset loaded into each day when installed

Sorry about my absence from the various shade threads about the place its just that ive been busy working some changes into 1.02 those inc the ability to load just light\shadow or fog values
from a preset allowing ppl to mix and match each of these ramps to make new presets,aswell as a much much improved custom value picker which will allow you to pick any pixiel from anywhere on your current screen
and set it as a light\shadow\fog value this means you will be able to pull up pictures from real life sunrises\sunsets and click and pick there colour values for use with shade,even i think thats pretty cool! and it allows for much faster building of presets or tweaking of the existing ones

Thanks again for your support

Cheers
steve

[albatros]

New version (1.01) is now available at the FLight Sim Store.



I cannot find the link for 1.01 in Flight Sim Store. Waiting for the mail....two days.....

[Gizmo]

I cannot find the link for 1.01 in Flight Sim Store. Waiting for the mail....two days.....


Adrian tells me the 1.01 wrapper has been uploaded to FFS's servers,did you try re-downloading the latest package?

From 1.02 onwards i'll be doing the standard update patch thing this should be a faster way to get stuff out and allow ppl who purchase at other stores to patch from a common source without having to wait on a store front (that is when i get it hosted elsewhere!) i'll also build full packages so hosts will also have the latest files versions should ppl not want to mess about with patches

Cheers
steve
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[albatros]

Adrian tells me the 1.01 wrapper has been uploaded to FFS's servers,did you try re-downloading the latest package?



From 1.02 onwards i'll be doing the standard update patch thing this should be a faster way to get stuff out and allow ppl who purchase at other stores to patch from a common source without having to wait on a store front (that is when i get it hosted elsewhere!) i'll also build full packages so hosts will also have the latest files versions should ppl not want to mess about with patches



Cheers

steve



Steve,

I reload the package and is the same as the original.

Anyway, I am quite happy with Shade as it is.....Great program.

Luis

[DarrenL]

I've just downloaded v1.01



Didn't get an email about it though.......

[Lateral-G]

I bought Shade the other day....still trying to get the feel of it. Although I do like what I see so far.

Hoping to get v1.01 tonight if I can find it.

[DaveWG]

Just re-downloaded & got V1.01 :salute:

No notification from FlightSimStore though, unless it got buried with the spam.

[Thoe6969]

I downloaded 1.01 from Flight Sim store this morning.Have not had much time to play with it yet ,but popped in one of the new presets with a little less shadow and really like it,it's called VIOLET DAWN. give it a try.

[albatros]

I downloaded 1.01 from Flight Sim store this morning.Have not had much time to play with it yet ,but popped in one of the new presets with a little less shadow and really like it,it's called VIOLET DAWN. give it a try.


Finally I downloaded. Had to gess was 1.01.
Silence fron Flight Sim Store.
Fortunatly we are helping each other to find out what is going on.
Nice program.

Luis

[atf300]

when can we expect shade on simmarket ? its my preferred choice for shopping, if its long ill take the aussie route

[Gizmo]

Hey atf300 (http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/member.php?78563-atf300)

Going to be about a week or so now due to the fact that the code has progresses to 1.02,i dont want to upload 1.01 to simmarket then have to put 1.02 a few days later
Also due to the current exchange rate and commissions bank charges im sorry to say that Shade maybe a euro or 2 more expensive on Simmarket :(

Cheers
steve

[dvj]

go shade go - what a blast!

48895

[papab]

DVJ
What Preset is that?
Lovely Shot!
Rick

[dvj]

DVJ
What Preset is that?
Lovely Shot!
Rick

Endless summer

REX
Orbx weather #2
Dusk over Death Valley

[papab]

Thanks!
Rick

[OleBoy]

My apologies for not reading more into the topic, but, where can I purchase this? Is there a direct link?

[DarrenL]

Go to http://www.flightsimstore.com then you will see it top of the best sellers on the right, click :)

[OleBoy]

Thanks Darrent. The name of it threw me. I was looking for "Shade" , not Mogwaisoft - Shade for FSX.

For some reason I can not get the login to allow me in. Even after requesting a new password two times, it does not seem to work.
Cookies deleted, browser (firefox) reset, restarted my pc, cleaned with crapcleaner as a last resort. And still can't sign in. I originally tried to create a new account, and it said my details were already in the system. Which they should be. But I could not log in! I even tried to pay with my Paypal by clicking on the Paypal banner they show there and it DOES NOT WORK!!! sigh

Darn, I was hoping to get to try this on my day off from work today. Is there anywhere else this can be purchased from?

I have sent them a support ticket request through the store.

[imn2sims]

Hi Steve. I just purchased shade and have a quick question. Is it possible to unwrap and register on a different computer than my FSX computer? I really don't like getting online wtith the FSX one unless absolutley necessary. THANX

Steve

[Gizmo]

Hey guys

Sorry to say i have no control over the purchase/activation side of things all that stuff is handled by flightsimstore so you need to ask them about purchase problems/issues
im pretty sure you can activate there wrapper via another PC though as it will ask how you want to proceed with activation on install

Again many thanks for all your kind words and Support for this little addon oh mine :)

Im almost finished working the changes for 1.02 in and im working on a few more Presets for ppl to play with,Changes in 1.02 will allow much faster building/tweaking of your own custom values as well as the ability to mix and match tone ramps from various presets (I.E. load light from one,shadows from another, fog from another and you'll have a whole new preset to play with) hope to have this ready and up at flightsimstore by the end of the week

Sorry but that means you'll have to login to your Flightsimstore accounts and redownload/activate the package yet again (you dont need to rebuy as all of shades package updates will be free)
i was going to just add patches as updates from now on but as its now been ripped off updating the whole package is only way i can keep updates out of those non buying users hands for a while

I'll let you guys know when 1.02 is ready to go (this time i'll wait till adrian tells me its live ;) )

Cheers
steve

[DarrenL]

Thanks Steve for the update.

[warchild]

With all the problems that people seem to be having with purchasing this from flightsim store, I'm curious if it will be offered through another retailer??

[OleBoy]

I sent Steve an email about the issues I'm having over @ Flightsimstore. He told me that it's beyond his control, and that it needs to be dealt with through their support on site. Steve also stated that Shade will be available soon via Simmarket, after his v1.02 updated installer is completed. He gave a time frame roughly by end of the week it should be available at the latter I mention.

[warchild]

Thanks OleBoy.. Much appreciated.. :)

[OleBoy]

Still having trouble. I never have been able to log in to my account no matter what I try. Even trying to create an account I still get an error.

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/1310/wwwflightsimstorecom201.png

[Gdavis101]

I had an interesting problem today with Shade, at first I didn't think it was Shade but it looks like it is. When I booted up FSX I found that the lighting was all wrong, midday and I had lights on in the cities, my clouds were a dirty brown and everything was pretty dark...(I use Megascenery Earth ORegon and Washington.) Figuring it had something to do with the season change I went and booted FSX without Shade and set the textures back to summer.. Voila, everything was back to normal.. Exited FSX and rebooted using just FSX with the fall textures and everything was okay.. Exited again and rebooted using Shade and the problem came back.. Any ideas?

[spotlope]

I had an interesting problem today with Shade, at first I didn't think it was Shade but it looks like it is. When I booted up FSX I found that the lighting was all wrong, midday and I had lights on in the cities, my clouds were a dirty brown and everything was pretty dark...(I use Megascenery Earth ORegon and Washington.) Figuring it had something to do with the season change I went and booted FSX without Shade and set the textures back to summer.. Voila, everything was back to normal.. Exited FSX and rebooted using just FSX with the fall textures and everything was okay.. Exited again and rebooted using Shade and the problem came back.. Any ideas?

I had that happen a couple of times when using a modified .bat file to launch shade_nl.exe, wait five seconds, then launch external FPS limiter. Now that you can just "burn in" the shade preferences and not launch shade_nl at all, it's not an issue. Were you perhaps trying to do something of that sort?

[warchild]

Personally, i'm gonna wait till its available on simmarket, then get the upgrade. It's only ten bucks and i know steve will appreciate it, but flightsimstore lost a customer after my fiasco attempting to purchase it.. Banned in the US indeed..

[Gdavis101]

I had that happen a couple of times when using a modified .bat file to launch shade_nl.exe, wait five seconds, then launch external FPS limiter. Now that you can just "burn in" the shade preferences and not launch shade_nl at all, it's not an issue. Were you perhaps trying to do something of that sort?

I will give that a try.. Thanks Bill.

That did the trick..

[OleBoy]

I was hoping that some kind of contact would have been made in reference to my troubles when attempting to log in to my account at flightsimstore by the time I got home today. No such luck. I have made several attempts explaining my troubles I am having when trying to purchase "Shade". Needless to say, my issue is still not resolved, and a customer is unhappy here obviously. I would think that there would be better customer relations to get the problem solved, rather than not reply at all. The re-pore is piss poor

[OleBoy]

My FSS issues have been resolved. Shade has been purchased.
Gizmo, I look forward to trying this!

And, I have. The differences are night and day if you don't have this. The amount of shadow, color and contrast is without a doubt, very different. This is amazing what the program does to all the aspects of light seen within the simulator. A very worthy purchase for such an enhancement! And the cost is, cheap!!

Back to playing with this some more :medals:

[DagR]

I want to express my appreciation as well. This gadget gave me a whole new simulator :-) Thanks to Gizmo and his 'band of testers' !! :-)
I have noticed that on certain presets the diffuse map alpha channel gets more pronounced. Examples are for instance in the VCs of the Skysim Mirage package and the ALS sim SU-27. In these cockpits the dev has made liberal use of the alpha channel, not only on glass faces but panels, consoles and the like and it gets rather 'reflectious'. Nothing that cannot be dealt with though :-)
Looking forward to 1.02 :-)

Best
Dag

[fallout3]

Have the same problem as Gdavis101, I have no addon that could launch FSX, have AI carriers, FS Recoder, and Bjote`s shader 3.0 on, and at any time of day it looks like midinght with landing lights unable to light anything......Tried to lanuch shade_NL and launch FSX manually, but it won`t work...

[OleBoy]

Fallout3, perhaps go to the support forum and tell them there also? http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/forum/169-mogwaisoft-shade/

[Gizmo]

Hey guys

Just a headsup that 1.02 is live at flightsimstore :)

Just log into your account a redownload the wrapper and you'll find Shade 1.02 inside,im sorry that you'll have to download the full (a massive 3,8mb ;) ) package again but its the only way i can keep this update safe from grubby hands for a little while ;)

1.02 change log

Added the ability to load just light\shadow\fog values from a preset to allow for mixing and matching across different presets

Added a much better "Custom" Colour picker to the palette roll outs,this new picker allows you to grab pixel colours anywhere on your current desktop(click hold over the eye dropper icon and release to pick a value)using this will allow you to quickly pick/tweak values when building your own presets you can also use it to grab colours\tones from images of sun rises/sunsets,im sure once you have a play with it you'll see how much better it is than the default windows colour picker in 1.0/1.01

More info in the manual on these changes

Added a few more presets (look in the new in 1.02 presets folder) for ppl to try/tweak....

Again thanks for the support and feedback im very happy that this little app has been so well received :)

@fallout3 if you want to mail me for offical support thats cool im pretty sure i can get things going for you as ive replyed about the blackout issue to a few ppl and they have it sorted and working fine,gonna need those FSS details with any email though

Cheers
steve

[DaveWG]

Thanks for the update Steve :applause:

Off to re-download now :running:

[DarrenL]

Uninstall v1.01 or can we apply v1.02 over the top?

[Gizmo]

Uninstall v1.01 or can we apply v1.02 over the top?

Over the top if you like BUT if you altered any of the default presets back them up first as 1.02 will overwrite them (unless you resaved them under a diffrent name)

Cheers
steve

[DarrenL]

Thanks :)

[OleBoy]

Thanks for the update Steve. I managed to get v1.01 installed and test it out a bit, then my FSX drive went belly up and I lost everything. I was so mad. I said a few choice words!! I'll download this and set it aside for when I get this mess sorted. FSX is refusing to reinstall. And right now, I'm stumped by it all!!

Thanks for the update. Hope to use it soon-ish

[imn2sims]

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[EMatheson]

has anyone tried this in FS9 or is it FSX only?

[YoYo]

Small review of SHADE and best mark!

Click (http://yoyosims.pl/FS2004_recenzje.html) (in Polish only).

http://yoyosims.pl/Obrazki/FSX/Shade/ShadeReview.JPG

[delta_lima]

Finally got on the Shade bandwagon ... totally impressed. Have had it for about a week ... ran it with default settings ... looked good.

Then, today, having not changed anything - everything was super dark - like wearing sunglasses at night. If I turn off FSX, go back to launching FSX the old way (not using shade), then it's fine.

I've heard that using the .2 External FPS limiter has fixed it - but I also heard that can muck your AICarriers setup. I'd like to get Shade to work again, but not at the expense of losing my carriers.

Set up: WinXP, FSX+Acell, no REX/ORB type addons.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

DL