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S K Y D C 0.4preview - A taste of things to come
🕑 Added 2023-09-30 20:59:19 +0000 UTC
Requirement: Pure 0.205+
For CSP, grassFX, activate MSAA
The future is here!... or is it? DC "0.4preview" is a taste of things to come.
*Please note that 0.4preview is not 0.4. The full 0.4 experience will come once a new pure update comes out.
We took a gamble. Currently, 0.4preview is very experimental. A lot of visual aspects will suffer due to those experimentations, but we can safely say it looks MUCH better than 0.3.
There's A LOT to cover:
It's the update that fixes key major sore issues such as bloom & glare, exposure technics and most importantly, colors.
First things first, the most exciting part about 0.4 are the reflections improvement. We literally fixed AC's reflection. This is the main reason of the substantial visual changes from 0.3, bringing us closer to the DC vibe.
0.4preview:
0.4:
In the past, with 0.2, we have improved car shading, by improving light bounces shading on car reflections, thus making them more fitting to the environment.
For 0.4, we did another experimentation but this time we affect Fresnel reflection. To give you a simple idea of how "Fresnel" works, look at the windshield of the GT3 RS: there's a more pronounced gradience. It is lacking in 0.4preview. It's one of those small details that actually makes a huge difference, really affecting the emotion that the game looks and feel real.
Fresnel impacts all reflective materials, achieving much more realistic results, thus making reflections a LOT less overblown.
0.4preview:
0.4:
Colors & bloom
Wow. Massively improved, and much more accurate than ever. 0.3 looked way too yellow and dull. Sepia has been toned down massively - and is now controllable for users.
0.3
0.4
0.4preview is much more vivid. The new bloom, glare and colors adjustment is a massive step up to achieve a more natural look than before. Bloom is toned down massively. I've come to realization that bloom was way too strong after seeing the game on another monitor! It was simply too bloomy for no reasons in places where there shouldn't be any bloom, so this has been fixed.
Exposure Handling & S K Y's Exposure Blinding
Exposure has been optimized and re-built fRoM tHe GrOuNd Up to better reflect how actual exposure handling works.
pureCandy:
S K Y D C 0.3
S K Y D C 0.4preview:
The exposure blindness that was written for 0.3 was like an added layer to the exposure, so whenever the exposure adjusts, some sort of second "pass" got on/off, executing blindness. You can see it whenever you look at very bright spots and then quickly look away to a dark spot.
Looking from my monitor, the exposure adjustments looked great without caveats, but on another monitor, you can see brightness and contrast gets broken. So this needed to be changed big time.
In 0.4, blindness works seamlessly. The sun now does its job of blinding your vision properly without the use of sunblinding shaders from the upcoming pure version!
The new glare adjustments is helping a lot to provide a much more convincing sun blinding effect and dare I say, I believe DC 0.4 is the only ppfilter that has a proper sun glare that actually affects your visuals, without the need of the upcoming pure shaders. It's no longer a sunlight on your screen to simply look beautiful but a sunlight that serves a purpose as well, which is to make the overall ppfilter feel more natural.
HDR
Moving forward all S K Y ppfilter's will support HDR. For SDR users, In Pure Config > "pp" section, I highly recommend adjusting the "paperwhite" slider, otherwise your game may look blown up!
Reaching the peak
Right now, I believe we've now reach a limit to the point there's very little room for improvement, it's all about the small details now. Only upcoming Pure updates can give us ppfilter creators more room for massive improvements! The main reason why S K Y D C won't be released soon is because Pure currently lacks a lot of features! Like fog, which is something I am impatiently waiting for. But Pure updates always bring a lot of amazing surprises like landscapes, and sunblinding shaders that will be very useful for S K Y D C and any other ppfilters. This is very exciting and I am eager to see what the future of Pure holds!
I think that's enough for now, there will another post within a week or 2 explaining more in details about reflections improvements that will come for the full 0.4 release.
Thank you guys so much for the support at ANXMOIA. As you know, without you guys, none of this would happen.
Alright, enjoy 0.4! If you have any feedback, constructive criticism, any harsh things to say about 0.4, please please please post your thoughts in the comments or in discord!
Thank you all!
S L X C K
Known issues:
Taillights at high exposure during daylight will appear gloomy. This will be fixed on full release of 0.4.
Comments
Ken Hallig
0.222 is OUT! Can't wait for the full 0.4 release of SKY DC, thank you for blessing me and the people that support you with amazing mods :)
The best game Plays
when that new update coming
IceVale
when i put on the sky dc0.4 filter my screen goes black
Nicolas DELORME
It works now, thanks, i manually install CSP and that was good
S L X C K
That's exactly what the 0.4 preview is for 😂We need to wait and see how Pure's sunblinding work before release
Luisito Rodriguez
should release it for you patron members for we can try while we wait for the new pure 😎
Alex Spin
Yes, Let´s hope they find out how to do it, and please! you are not seeing AC in VR? hahaha COME ON! what are you wating for?, there is NOTHING like to play AC in VR, no other racing game look as smooth and high quality as AC in VR right now, not even GT7 ,
S L X C K
Oh really? I didn't know about that since I don't use VR. Did you discuss about it on the PURE/AC shaders Discord server? It's probably a limitation. I imagine Peter or Ilja are working on a fix.
Alex Spin
No no, it's not an issue, it's already known that there is no reflections of cars on the road in rain or wet surfaces in VR (since ever). my question was just wondering (if you know about that) about why and if it could be possible to enable that feature in the future, or it's just an untweakable limitation.
S L X C K
We need examples of the issue, hop on our server and send us ss!
Alex Spin
Hi, just amazing work, now AC looks better than ACC, DC, IR, etc. haha a lot better. Just a question out of the context, just wondering ... it's impossible to get cars reflection over the wet road in VR? just like we have it in Single Screen?. Thanks again for your amazing work.
Lachezar
Installed it manualy, still no paperwhite. Should Script loaded (in Pure config) be different from defaul_script.lua? And I cant find a way to search to load yours? Now I saw with regular sky 1.5 it is loading it. But for 1.6 and 0.4p it does not. Files are in the pure_scripts folder.
Ivano Diodati
Reinstalled it manually and now works fine!
S L X C K
You definitely changed the ppfilters for some reasons. Did you install it manually? Reinstall it. Always install all ppfilters manually.
Ivano Diodati
when I start AC it shows everything black or white. I have to change the filter and then put SKY 04 back on and it works. but in pure config I have errors: YEBIS Vignette strength must not be 0! YEBIS Godrays/DIFFRACTION_RING must not be 0!
S L X C K
Please come to our server and in the #help channel send screenshots. This is new.
S L X C K
The full 0.4 experience will fix reflection. The game appears bright on your screen, please lower the paperwhite slider!
Alessandro Perrin
i find this very cool but when i put skydc 0.4 on my game, it appear very light and like i find the reflections of the 0.3 more beautiful, i think the prob comes from my pure settings but i have no clues how to fix this and to make it more beautiful :/
Nicolas DELORME
Hi, could you help please? When i use SKY filter the game works, when i select SKYDC04 Preview the game launches well, i have the left bar of the race menu (AC origin) but the rest of the screen is in dark grey, i hear sounds, i see proximity icons but that's all. Any idea?
Antti Vainionpää
csp and cm are the latest, i need to try newer version pure.
S L X C K
Please always install the latest CSP, CM and Pure versions!
Antti Vainionpää
Hi, when i turn the ppfilter on screen turns black and fps drops to 10, any tips? i manually installed everything.
Adz
Is there any way to get Pure to use the settings I set as default? It reverts back to the original settings every game. I'm on SDR so I have to change that every time.
Adz
If you could include a list of recommended CSP settings (eg. including screenshots), that would be preferable to a settings file IMHO. Thanks.
S L X C K
I am waiting for new Pure version to release!
S L X C K
make sure to always save your CSP settings!
Jacopo Di Giuli
Waiting for the "final" version! <3
Adz
Looks great, but having to go through every CSP setting (even things like the VR tweaks) to change them back is frustrating. Even some FFB settings were affected.
S L X C K
please install manually! You can find how to install in our server #sky-guides
Vincent Vacossin
Hi, i don't find paperwhite and the game is almost full white screen, can you help please ?
Wiz
Did you install through Content Manager or manually? You must always install post-processing manually. It will always miss files when drag-and-dropped.
The best game Plays
lets get it
Maks Szlosek
did you fixed the problem?
Franc Massaneda
There's no "paperwhite" scale. Just hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, color_temperature, gamma, godrays
S L X C K
You need to adjust the paperwhite slider as stated in the post!
Franc Massaneda
Hey, when i use SKYDC 0.3 everything's great, but with the 0.4 it's waaaaaaaaay too bright, unplayable by day and it looks like it's 14:00h at night... what am I doing wrong?
Tim Friesen
same issue for me. Did you manage to fix it ?
Chrulli
Done, thank you! posted in feedback, wasnt sure the right place to do so.
S L X C K
First time hearing this, send us a some ss in our server https://discord.gg/6jb5uw4J
Chrulli
i am using a triple monitor setup and when i load this, half of my right and left screen are dark. The right screen is so dark i cannot see out of my mirror in the middle of a sunny day. Any suggestions?
현서 :D 김
Thank you for nice work, I like SKYDC series so much!!!!
Ryan Hamilton
In pure configuration under the pp filter tab.
yukiyan
Where is the "night bloom threshold"?
Lester Olivera
Dude best most realistic PPfilter I have used so far in daylight. I have not tried it at night but first impression is amazing.
Ryan Hamilton
Oh that definitely fixed it! Now I can see at night haha. The only thing I notice is when that's turned up. I have it set to about 3.9 which makes the busses and trucks not so blinding is that the bloom around the streetlights along the highway kind of pop in as I get close to them kind of like a bad lod distance in other games or something. Totally minor compared to blinding trucks and busses though. Thanks so much for the super quick response and help!
S L X C K
I didn't mention some of the new sliders for the ppfilter! The issue is due to bloom at night. On the pp tab, there's now a "night bloom threshold" slider for night settings to alleviate the issue. Try it and let me know if that fixes everything!
Ryan Hamilton
just had a quick question regarding headlights at night. had this same issue with 0.3 and same with 0.4 as i just tested. my headlights reflecting off the back of a large white truck or bus ai traffic car on any track but mostly noticed on shutoko are blinding and the back of the large vehicle becomes just a huge white light spot on the screen. is there a setting or something ive missed that would fix that issue? otherwise loving 0.4 so far, the lighting and sun reflections through glass are a huge improvement in terms of quality and realism.
