Freeware: P3D Tweak Assistant

Een programma dat razendsnel aan populariteit wint is P3D Tweak Assistant. Deze gratis tool maakt het mogelijk om zeer veel aanpassingen door te voeren aan de visuele weergave in Prepar3D.  Op dit moment wat ons betreft het pakket als het gaat om aanpassen van shaders, HDR, belichting, schaduwen, kleuren etc. etc. De laatste versie is gisteren uitgebracht. Je kunt dit programma direct downloaden voor P3D v3.1 t/m v3.3 via de onderstaande downloadlinks:

• Download PTA voor Prepar3D v3.3
• Download PTA voor Prepar3D v3.2
• Download PTA voor Prepar3D v3.1

The main features

– 20+ different tweaks with fully customisable options.
– Custom shaders, adapted from SweetFX that can be used natively in Prepar3D without Reshade!
– All tweaks with Prepar3D config parameters and custom shaders grouped into presets and can be stored in separate files with comments and shared with other people.
– Strict control of sim core shaders integrity and the easy recovery mechanism for original shaders and config files.
– Detailed illustrated help on each tweak and its options.
– Logging of all operations with detailed error messages and hints.
– Customisable skin of tool interface.

In this version you get fully parameterized:
– Clouds tweaks: scale the width and height of clouds puffs, clouds shadows extended size, reduce cloud brightness at dawn and dusk, reduce “popcorn” at far distance, adjust blend distance, using alternate lighting for clouds and more…
– Shadow tweaks: boost light on the illuminated areas, make shadows deeper, autogen shadows intensity.
– Terrain tweaks: atmosphere scattering effect, include alternate variant for IFR flights; adjust urban areas luminosity at night.
– Water tweaks : tune waves speed, tuning water refraction and reflection coefficients and surface granularity, that will result in really new water appearance. Also you can get old style FSX-like reflection of the sun.
– HDR shader tweaks: new ability to adjust whole scene tone, alternate tonemap operator, customizable contrast tunung. Also you can turn off HDR luminance adaptation effect (new tweak);
– Experimental FXAA antialiasing tweak: provides full control of FXAA shader specific parameters.
– Custom shaders: Sepia, Curves, Levels, LiftGammaGain, Technicolor, Vibrance, LumaSharpen, DPX Cineon adapted for Prepar3D renderind engine.