PTA tool + Reshade and my profile

[YoYo]

Hi,
here is manual how to install my profile for PTA + info.
The instructions are divided on few parts because on SOH we have a limit 4 pictures for the one post only.
More info about PTA on his website http://1coder.ru/PTA/ and on Avsim Forum: https://www.avsim.com/forums/forum/7...ismshaderpack/ .

I very like PTA tool for P3D but I hate HDR=On in P3D (it costs a few or more fps always for me). Check Shoprite Specials and Spar Specials. Shaders of PTA works with HDR=off in P3D but post process no so I decided to connect effects from PTA with ReShade 3 and with HDR=OFF in Prepar3Dv3.
Here is preview (screenies and video direct from the sim, not edited).

[YoYo]

A lot of time I sacrificed on shadres of water effects (btw. I use from Texture Direct "set 15 - dark").





Video preview:



The others videos with this preset:

http://youtu.be/1ch0rSi7J4o
http://youtu.be/fIZyQ64h46c
http://youtu.be/pN4Z_IvyJQE

Btw. I use REX Soft Clouds + Texture Direct, Active Sky 2016 (I advice here set up Visibility options > Maximum upper visibility = set 200) and ORBX products.

[YoYo]

Manual (tested with P3Dv3.4, Reshade 3.0.7 and PTA 2.11 - in plus):

You need PTA Tool: http://1coder.ru/PTA/downloads.html (manual how to install is on PTA website) for shaders.
You need ReShade also: https://reshade.me/ for post processing effects.
Use NVidia Inspector + the last profile for better antialiasting in P3D: https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...51505/#4951505 .

My settings in P3D (the red lines are very important for this profile):

[YoYo]

+ in NVidia Inspector, profile P3D:

[YoYo]

Download files

1/ Take the new PTA profile: https://www.sendspace.com/file/g913op and activate it in PTA/P3D ( "HDR_OFF_yoyo_PTA_2_11" file).
Install it as normal way for PTA profiles.

2/ ReShade profile: https://www.sendspace.com/file/wa77hx and activate it in Reshade ("P3Dv3_yoyo" file).
How to do this?

A. Install ReShade 3 https://reshade.me/
B. Install it (its easy, use only Dx10+ version, video tutorial: https://youtu.be/AmziSAz2B4M?t=2m57s (show the way to Prepar3D.exe in Your main simulator folder)
C. When the program will ask about download filters - click yes, uncheck all but take this (You don't need all filters, sometimes it's a case of CTD if You have unnecessary), so take only:

- AmbientLight
- Deband
- DPX
- LumaSharpen
- SMAA
- Tonemap
- Vignette

D. Put unziped profile ("P3Dv3_yoyo") to main folder of P3D .
E. Start P3D. You will see grey task (info) like this (its OK!):



F. Take flight and hit "Shift + F2" (You can change it for example for Shift + F9 in settings option for example) and load profile from the main P3D folder.
It must looks like this (example):



4/ Done! Enjoy new quality of P3D ;>.


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Btw.


a/ How to unistall ReShade profile? Just remove from P3D folder reshade-shaders and files P3Dv3_yoyo, dxgi, dxgi.dll
b/ You can setup On/Off Reshade effects in Settings (to see difference), I use Scroll Lock for this like it was in Sweet FX for example.





Regards!

[Dimus]

Thank you Yo-Yo! Very nice indeed! I also use PTA, especially for the long distance atmospheric effect.

You mention water. Are you referring to water diffuse colors or wave animation? I have also tried the TD water colors and found that they are too saturated so reverted back to the default P3D. Also for wave animations, there was a problem with wake effects not attaching to the water surface for water on perfect so also went back to the default P3D animation. Any input on these?

[YoYo]

Hi Dimus,
I did small changes in waves and a lot of desaturations :-), example :

[roger-wilco-66]

That's a great post, Yoyo. Thank you for taking your time to document this in such a great detail and share it. I'm going to make sticky out of that. For the sake of keeping this thread clean, I would like to ask anyone who replies to this thread to please stay on topic.


Cheers,
Mark

[Christoph_T]

Thank you very much JoJo for your tweak and the detailed explanation!
It realy makes a big difference



Christoph

[Rick_Piper]

Hi YoYo

when I try to open your ini file PTA says file is incorrect format and won't load

???

others seem to have no problem

Very odd

Rick

[Dimus]

Hi Dimus,
I did small changes in waves and a lot of desaturations :-), example :

It really looks great YoYo. Do you mean that you edited the REX textures yourself?

[YoYo]

It really looks great YoYo. Do you mean that you edited the REX textures yourself?

No, not REX textures direct but shaders of P3D (from PTA).

[YoYo]

Update for P3Dv4.

Hi, bought P3Dv4 yesterday.
PTA is now payware addon so I did the new Reshade profile for v4 (HDR off in the simulator).
How to install? Like it was before (but ONLY reshade).

Download ReShade profile: https://www.sendspace.com/file/t0b9jn

Examples (better colors and visual effects):









FTX Vector, FTX Global, default P3Dv4 sky and textures.

This profile works with HDR=on in the sim also. The result:

http://s10.ifotos.pl/img/Prepar3D-_qpqearn.jpg

HDR=on, brightness=1.05, bloom=0.26, saturation 1.05