When my plane is ‘Ported’ over to MSFS 2024 from 2020, the materials become incredibly bland. It is as though they are not PBR based. Horrible……
Someone suggested making the COMP map darker, but that made the color darker.
1st one is in MSFS 2020
This second one is in MSFS 2024. Horrible.
How on Earth can one adjust or fix this so that a 2020 plane shows up properly in 2024?
Remember, this is a “Portover”
Bill
LHC
Hi Bill,
does this not look like an AO issue or a shadowing issue whereby light is no longer hitting any of the areas inside the cockpit?
First of all you must understand the COMP Map is 3 seperate Layers ..
Simply making it darker will not work
I suggest checking the RED Channel, It should be MOSTLY White with details for shadows ..
If it is an Overall Grey then it WILL Make the material darker (As if in shadow )
The GREEN Channel is for Roughness / Glossyness
and the BLUE Being for Metallic or Reflectivity
Bill,
Any chance you’ve opened your KTX2s in something like Photoshop, and then reexported those to PNGs that were later built back into KTX2s by the Package Builder?
If so, that would be the issue. When a KTX2 built by the sim is re-opened, there is an sRGB/Linear difference, and the image appears “washed out”. This will affect ALBD, COMP, and NORM. If that image is then used later on without applying a correction, it will appear washed out in the sim, along with the effects on the COMP/NORM.
I’ve attached below a comparison, where the left side shows KTX2s with no correction (washed out), and the right side which shows KTX2s with an sRGB to Linear correction applied (not washed out).
Applying the sRGB to Linear correction is not 100% perfect, as some data is lost in the compression.
Not sure if this is what you’ve done in this case or not, but if it is, this should set you on the right track.
-Zach
Hello @LyonHaart001
This subject was already discussed in these bug reports:
Shader issues in MSFS 2024 - [MSFS 2024] Bug Reports / Aircraft - MSFS DevSupport
This post in particular might interest you:
Regards,
Sylvain
Sylvain,
Will this be rectified in the near future, or is this permanent?
If it is going to be fixed in the future, do you have an approximate time line of when the update might come out?
Thanks for the heads up.
Bill
LHC
Hello @LyonHaart001
We have plans to offer more control to artists for this, but this might take a bit of time to implement.
Definitely not for SU5.
Regards,
Sylvain
Thank you Sylvain.
Cheers,
Bill
LHC
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