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by Beau Hollis
Fri May 27, 2022 3:17 am
Forum: Prepar3D Client Application Questions
Topic: ViewGroup - very strange issue, LM please help !
Replies: 50
Views: 52525

Re: ViewGroup - very strange issue, LM please help !

Is anyone else experiencing the zoom level issue? I'm curious if there is something odd going on with regards to mouse zoom settings. I've never see the menu item clicks changing zoom and breaking groups. If we can reproduce that, it would likely be something we could fix up. We did do some thorough...
by Beau Hollis
Fri May 27, 2022 2:36 am
Forum: Prepar3D Client Application Questions
Topic: Does P3D v5 Support SLI
Replies: 10
Views: 21043

Re: Does P3D v5 Support SLI

Sorry. I don't have any new information to share regarding SLI.
by Beau Hollis
Fri May 27, 2022 2:31 am
Forum: SimConnect Interface Questions
Topic: The Prepar3D v5 application crash when using SimConnect_BeginVideoStream
Replies: 16
Views: 70162

Re: The Prepar3D v5 application crash when using SimConnect_BeginVideoStream

Unfortunately I can't share any details on the release schedule at this time. I am not aware of any plans to update v4.
by Beau Hollis
Thu May 26, 2022 12:38 pm
Forum: Prepar3D Professional Plus Client Application Questions
Topic: Passthrough portals
Replies: 2
Views: 7319

Re: Passthrough portals

You can draw basic occlusion meshes using the AR portals using motion controllers on SteamVR or Varjo. Portals work by writing alpha into the final image. By default alpha is not written, but the write mask can be modified to include alpha. This can be done via flags when drawing primitives via PDK ...
by Beau Hollis
Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:42 pm
Forum: SimConnect Interface Questions
Topic: The Prepar3D v5 application crash when using SimConnect_BeginVideoStream
Replies: 16
Views: 70162

Re: The Prepar3D v5 application crash when using SimConnect_BeginVideoStream

Hello all, Sorry for the delayed response. We found the issue and it should be working again in the next release. Thank your for the detailed reports on this. There was a new error we were not handling properly. We think the new error was a result of updates to Microsoft media foundation in windows....
by Beau Hollis
Wed Mar 02, 2022 1:43 pm
Forum: Prepar3D Client Application Questions
Topic: Screen resolution issues
Replies: 1
Views: 2396

Re: Screen resolution issues

Can you describe your issue in more detail? If you are using full screen mode, you may want to set your full screen resolution in the graphics options to match your desktop resolution.
by Beau Hollis
Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:55 pm
Forum: Prepar3D Professional Plus Client Application Questions
Topic: Moving portal using MR with XR-3
Replies: 5
Views: 18470

Re: Moving portal using MR with XR-3

When using the post process to turn the entire aircraft as a mask, there is no separate portal geometry used. In that case, the VC geometry renders into the scene and stencil, and our post process grabs the stencil value and writes into the alpha. I'm a bit confused by this since you described the V...
by Beau Hollis
Mon Feb 14, 2022 9:39 pm
Forum: Prepar3D Professional Plus Client Application Questions
Topic: Multichannel behaviour
Replies: 4
Views: 7946

Re: Multichannel behaviour

How would a multichannel setup be configured correctly? One Server/Host without visuals, and the three IG with a viewgroup configured? And would these then act the same way as on a single IG with three displays connected? Yes. The server will still show the view group in the UI, and when you activa...
by Beau Hollis
Thu Feb 03, 2022 1:07 pm
Forum: Prepar3D Client Application Questions
Topic: P3D v5.3 HF2 | No haze/atmo (again)
Replies: 28
Views: 35140

Re: P3D v5.3 HF2 | No haze/atmo (again)

Limbu, Thanks for the feedback. If no color is provided in the dat file, we calculate a gray color based on global intensity and alpha value is replaced by magnitude scaled and clamped so that values linearly scale from 0 at mag 8.0 to 255 at mag 2.0. From the entries you posted it looks like there ...
by Beau Hollis
Wed Feb 02, 2022 4:04 pm
Forum: Prepar3D Professional Plus Client Application Questions
Topic: Moving portal using MR with XR-3
Replies: 5
Views: 18470

Re: Moving portal using MR with XR-3

When you view just the portal geometry in VR, is that moving as well? How closely aligned is the portal geometry placement with the VC panel? If you portal placement for example is in front of or behind the panel, it may look correct from one orientation but appear to swim as you move the camera bec...
by Beau Hollis
Mon Jan 24, 2022 6:44 pm
Forum: Prepar3D Professional Plus Client Application Questions
Topic: Multichannel behaviour
Replies: 4
Views: 7946

Re: Multichannel behaviour

Multichannel is designed for the server to handle user input and driver the simulation, while clients serve as the traditional IG channels. In the traditional host/IG framework it might be better to think of the server as the host rather than one of the IG channels. As it was originally designed, th...
by Beau Hollis
Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:53 pm
Forum: Prepar3D Client Application Questions
Topic: P3D v5.3 HF2 | No haze/atmo (again)
Replies: 28
Views: 35140

Re: P3D v5.3 HF2 | No haze/atmo (again)

Wise87, Your change does look correct. Here is that whole block copy/pated from my working copy: } #if !defined(SHD_ENHANCED_ATMOSPHERICS_BLEND) && !defined(SHD_TO_FAR_CLIP) && !defined(SHD_SKY) const float distanceFogTrans = min(transmittance, CalculateExponentialFogBlend(distanceSq...
by Beau Hollis
Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:34 pm
Forum: Prepar3D Client Application Questions
Topic: Setting Affinity Mask for P3D V5.3 new scheduler
Replies: 14
Views: 15927

Re: Setting Affinity Mask for P3D V5.3 new scheduler

If the values you manually enter into the cfg are changed at runtime, it is because our validation code changed them. The values in the cfg reflect the final values used by P3D. The OS starts P3D using all cores. The process mask must be a subset of the mask P3D is started with and the core mask mus...
by Beau Hollis
Sun Jan 23, 2022 6:18 pm
Forum: Prepar3D Client Application Questions
Topic: P3D v5.3 HF2 | No haze/atmo (again)
Replies: 28
Views: 35140

Re: P3D v5.3 HF2 | No haze/atmo (again)

Hello all, Sorry about this. We added the SHADE_SKY_STARS check to fix this issue with the stars, but it looks like that flag is being set true on accident by other materials. The best workaround for this would be to create new #define called SHD_SKY in ShadersHLSL\Sky.fx at the top of the file like...
by Beau Hollis
Sun Jan 23, 2022 5:12 pm
Forum: Prepar3D Client Application Questions
Topic: EA on clouds loading in patches / popping in a 1 second rythm
Replies: 4
Views: 4593

Re: EA on clouds loading in patches / popping in a 1 second rythm

Can you provide more detail about your weather settings and scenario? Are you using and 3rd party weather add-ons?