[BUG LOGGED] Color artifacts and rough gradient, clouds like oil painting

Can you give more info, a screenshot maybe? Because I checked but I’m not sure of what to look for.
Is it something obvious or subtle?

I realized that there is still banding in the water when the sun hits it, I got some pretty ugly shapes, a bit like the ones that are in the coulds.

EDIT: I guess this isn’t fixed:

And this banding in the coulds… :nauseated_face:

I think there’ll always be some banding, this is miles better than what we had before. It could even be just the video compression artifact.
And if my mind isn’t playing tricks on me, it seems like the leaking sun is indeed fixed.
The Sun would shine even through very very thick clouds and fog and it looked weird, because everything at the ground or in the cockpit was very bright and you could see shadows everywhere, even when the sky was overcast.

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I can assure you that this is not from video compression. It’s even more obvious when pressing pause because it adds a dark overlay.
But you’re right, it’s still better than what we had before or course.

Reading the mostly very positive feedback coming from the Beta on items that are important to me, I’m feeling like a kid at Christmas, counting down the days. I really hope this patch gets released ahead of the holidays. I’ve only flown once or twice since SU7 as I prefer to wait for the corrected and more polished release. While waiting I’m spending time fine-tuning some on-hold flight tours that I’m building as saved Google Maps.

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To me it looks unlikely any SU7 patch will drop this year. So more patience required. MS have said they don’t have a release date for the SU7 patch and they have said that this patch is not SU8.

I’m assuming that they do plan on releasing the SU7 patch (with its SU5 colourbanding fix) before SU8 though!! :slightly_smiling_face:

I predict a mid to late January release of the SU7 patch. Then anything incomplete or newly broken with the SU7 patch will find a slot on SU8.

Why not install the open beta
It fixes the problèm

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Yep and the sim looks 10x better now. I got the beta just yesterday and it’s amazing how much of a difference there is. It’s a whole new vibe again

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And ruins addons?

All my addons + 40gb of mods still works :man_shrugging:t3:

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I’m not brave enough. I’ve waited this long, my patience has been well honed by now, another few weeks won’t kill me. Ask me again though if the patch doesn’t drop in January.

I really think the volcanic clouds are more of a lighting issue vs. texture issue. If you have a chance fly above the clouds as you show in your pics.

Now look at the clouds being lit from behind, i.e. looking back towards the sun. Particularly when you have a relatively low sun angle you’ll will notice that most often they look darn good. The colors, shadows and shading appears quite realistic.

Now look in the other direction. These clouds are being lit ‘head on’ so to speak. These clouds should appear MUCH lighter (whiter) in color. They should also appear much more diffuse (fluffy). Yet these are the clouds that in the sim appear MUCH too gray, i.e. volcanic.

You can see what I am referring to in your 1st pic. I am assuming from the shadows these clouds are being front lit. There should be very little in the way of gray. Most should appear bright white as there seems to be no or very little in the way of overcast above them.

In the second pic we appear to be looking at the clouds from the side with the sun to our left. While this view looks quite a bit more ‘realistic’ the lighting/color is still way off. By that I mean too gray and too much in the way of shadows.

Anyway, I admit I could be and most likely am wrong on this but I really do think it is more lighting and color choice issue vs. cloud textures.

To me it’s almost as if Asobo is deliberately trying to make the clouds look more ‘menacing’ and dramatic than need be.

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a bit like this perhaps:

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Precisely. Asobo, please study this photo of how clouds really appear in bright sunlight!

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Last night I flew and the cloud depiction was stunning. Tonight, well this what it looked like…





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Haven’t downloaded the SU7 patch yet so cannot comment first-hand. Having waited half a year for the SU5 introduced colourbanding to be fixed I’m bracing myself to be disappointed with the crazy live weather that I’m seeing it in lots of screengrabs posted on the forums. I fear waiting another half a year for this newest break-fix. It’s so hard to remain positive.

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Are those clouds supposed to look good? They look incredibly unnatural. Poor colours, poor textures, and you can so clearly see the ‘METAR hole’ with totally different weather to its surroundings.

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They’re supposed to look better than that :grin:

Yes, my post is to say that yesterday, the clouds I was seeing were really stunning and realistic. Today, this volcano ash is what I’m seeing.

Just did a flight around Orcas Island WA and Live Weather took nearly the whole flight before it kicked in and then it was that volcano ash junk.

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Ahh OK, I think the initial wording was a little unclear. Much better after your edit!

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it is any configuration on the nvidia control panel to look better clouds? they are too much pixelated

No, unfortunately that’s how they’re rendered.