13 minutes ago, Krakin said:

I'm convinced because even with the limitations, those clouds, paired with the lighting engine have made my jaw drop many times. We had to start somewhere and I think this was a good start.

I think my chief complaint having to do w/ the low voxel density is you end up with a certain sameness everywhere.  Yes of course the shapes are different always which is great, IOW they're doing what may be about as good as it can get at this resolution.  As hardware improves or as Asobo adds a slider to give users access to higher resolution clouds such that when able to process them more detail becomes apparent, as in this photo of a RW cloud which you can discern an opacity and with it higher contrast lighting.  We'll get there some day and I agree it seems we're on the right path but I feel we really won't get the kind of resolution to afford very distinct types of clouds until the hardware improves:

 

2 hours ago, Noel said:

to give users access to higher resolution clouds

and better colourisation like in your photo. not those grey volcanic ash clumps. and while we are at it: brightness fluctuation as you fly in and out of clouds, and to top it off: city lights lighting clouds up from underneath at night and ..... and ..... and.

Edited May 27, 20233 yr by turbomax

26 minutes ago, turbomax said:

brightness fluctuation as you fly in and out of clouds, and to top it off: city lights lighting clouds up from underneath at night and ..... and ..... and

Wait, aren't those things in MSFS already? I know for a fact that clouds are lit up by light pollution.

2 hours ago, Krakin said:

aren't those things in MSFS already?

show us!

4 hours ago, turbomax said:

and better colourisation like in your photo. not those grey volcanic ash clumps. and while we are at it: brightness fluctuation as you fly in and out of clouds, and to top it off: city lights lighting clouds up from underneath at night and ..... and ..... and.

This is an MSFS screenshot posted (not by me) on Sim-Outhouse, I don't think it's much different from the one posted by Noel. Is this what you call grey volcanic ash clumps? I think this looks amazing.

 

Screenshot link: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/120679-Screenshots/page122

6 minutes ago, Alvega said:

This is an MSFS screenshot posted (not by me) on Sim-Outhouse, I don't think it's much different from the one posted by Noel. Is this what you call grey volcanic ash clumps? I think this looks amazing.

 

Screenshot link: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/120679-Screenshots/page122

That's done in post. Guy even says "Some skies are edited with Luminar", Luminar being a photo editor.

Edited May 27, 20233 yr by Sethos

3 minutes ago, Sethos said:

That's a photoshop.

I think so too. Never ever is this a original MSFS screenshot. Take a look at the Cirrus clouds. This kind of rendition is not possible in MSFS.

Patric

1 minute ago, pscharff said:

I think so too. Never ever is this a original MSFS screenshot. Take a look at the Cirrus clouds. This kind of rendition is not possible in MSFS.

Patric

Dunno, I've seen similar in my sim. I didn't think someone would post photoshoped screenshots without saying it's photoshop, but who knows. Someone ask him, lol. 

8 minutes ago, Alvega said:

Dunno, I've seen similar in my sim. I didn't think someone would post photoshoped screenshots without saying it's photoshop, but who knows. Someone ask him, lol. 

That is 100% an edited photo. Those clouds do not exist in MSFS and it's almost painfully obvious that it's a real picture added in post. You can even see the blurring and smearing along the edges of the MSFS objects where the blending is done.

Plus, it's not even a discussion considering the guy said it was done with a photo editor.

6 minutes ago, Sethos said:

Plus, it's not even a discussion considering the guy said it was done with a photo editor.

Ok then, I didn't see him say that. 

4 hours ago, Alvega said:

Is this what you call grey volcanic ash clumps?

this, non photoshopped. 

our friends over at the other simulator will gladly provide more of these if you ask nicely. 😊

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/poll-time-please-no-more-than-5-things-you-want-the-sim-fixed-this-year-in-2022-just-5/506090

Edited May 27, 20233 yr by turbomax

58 minutes ago, turbomax said:

this, non photoshopped. 

our friends over at the other simulator will gladly provide more of these if you ask nicely. 😊

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/poll-time-please-no-more-than-5-things-you-want-the-sim-fixed-this-year-in-2022-just-5/506090

I haven't seen these types of volcanic ash clouds for a while now. And not just when I use MSFS, I don't see it when others live stream MSFS too.  Asobo has largely fixed this issue.

There may be a few instances of these volcanic ash looking clouds, but it's far and few, IMO.

1 minute ago, abrams_tank said:

There may be a few instances of these volcanic ash looking clouds, but it's far and few,

could be, and perhaps this image was taken over Mount Aetna or Vesuvio 😊

8 hours ago, Alvega said:

This is an MSFS screenshot posted (not by me) on Sim-Outhouse, I don't think it's much different from the one posted by Noel. Is this what you call grey volcanic ash clumps? I think this looks amazing.

 

Screenshot link: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/120679-Screenshots/page122

You and me wish!  Here's an MSFS screenshot posted here today by me from yesterday's flight, close up enough to see just how low density the voxels in this rendering truly are.  It's a start but has a ways to go.

 

 

3 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

I haven't seen these types of volcanic ash clouds for a while now. And not just when I use MSFS, I don't see it when others live stream MSFS too.  Asobo has largely fixed this issue.

There may be a few instances of these volcanic ash looking clouds, but it's far and few, IMO.

I agree strongly re ash clouds.  I think Asobo has done a spectacular job with what they have to work with, i.e. the low density voxel based rendering, and once again I think this is why we don't have the opacity to reflect high contrast so well like you see in photos of RW cloud structures.  I wonder how much Asobo's perception like many here of how much headroom they have to access is influenced by frame rate prioritization.  I say this because when I had my 2070 Super it was only clouds going from High to Ultra that would ever stress it post SU5.  Now it's common for me to see GPU loads around 55% no matter where I am in any kind of weather.   So now with a 3y/o GPU it's coasting when it could be put to work w/ higher resolution cloud voxels.  Others who are bent on high frame rates will appear to have no headroom for increased cloud resolution and I wonder how much that influences Asobo to NOT come up with a density slider.