I don't know how the winter was across the puddle, but her in the Midwest USA, we had an exceptionally mild winter.  Seriously, I think we had maybe three good snowfalls and I don't remember it getting below zero (F) even once...   

..its the "brightness" of the landscape that I am after, on a bright sunny day.

The landscape doesn't "shine brightly" when we program a sunny weather scene.

Certain parts, cornfields, etc, show up nice and "yellow", but any area which is covered by dark green foliage is always "dull", even though the sun is shining brightly overhead!

I have adjusted the RGB settings in my GE Pro to make the scenery appear "brighter", but it still doesn't replicate a hot, Summer mid-day, with a clear blue sky!

I need to feel; "warmth" around me... ...!

Paul...FS 2004... wearing a straw hat, flowery shirt, and Bermuda shorts...and the regulation Shades!...>>.. ...!

Note: Even in "Flight", although Hawaii is bathed in brilliant sunshine (hopefully), the scenery below doesn't replicate it!

jetprop wrote on Mar 25^th, 2012 at 5:57pm:


I want all this week-ends glorious sunshine appearing on the landscape in my FS 2004!

Paul....Give me sunshine!... ...!

Of course now that I have said this, the temperatures have dropped to almost freezing at night and I'm getting that little tickle in my throat that tells me a cold is coming on...   

The thing I love about my FS 2004 Flight Sim, is that no matter how wet, miserable, and horrible, and cold, the weather is outside in my back garden, I can fire up the Flight Sim, select a gorgeous, clear blue sky, warm, sunny, mid-day, in Summer, or early Autumn, and transport myself into the inviting Californian scenery I see before me!
I just wish that the Sim scenery around me was; "Brighter", to replicate those exact conditions, and bring an even bigger smile to my face!

Paul...In amongst the bright, golden cornfields of CAL Central Valley!... ...!

...(Its all in the mind...you know!)... ... ... ...!

Daube wrote on Mar 28^th, 2012 at 11:06am:

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?

Daube wrote on Mar 28^th, 2012 at 11:06am:

What settings DO you use for ENB bloom in FSX?
Yours seem quite light but mine are kind of dark.

The bloom module is, in fact, modifying each of the frames that FS9 (or FSX)  draws. The bloom "hacks" DirectX9, it sets itself in between DirectX9 and your sim silently, in order to "alter" the visuals produced by the sim. This is called "post-processing".

You can deeply alter the effects by editing the content of the file enbseries.ini.

I would also suggest you to give a try to my actual settings. I have stored everything (well, two files, that is) in this archive on my personnal webspace: http://sapdaube.free.fr/fsx/bloom2.zip

There is also another set of files that are tweaked by the talented guys from REX team, but I cannot locate it at the moment. They have some settings which seem to be quite appreciated by a good part of the community.

The effects of the bloom module are not only limited to daytime. The bloom is this kind of "glow" around the shiny parts of a dark picture. Because of this, the flights at dusk or dawn can become very spectacular, and if you have a plane with a sun panel (dark transparent movable thing, I don't know the exact name), you might have to use it sometimes. The results at night, if the module is configured properly, can be quite interesting as well. You'll have to reconsider your usage of cockpit lights, because they might become a real interference to your external vision.

All these things are small details, but they eventually add some immersion in the sim, some additionnal things that make you feel there.

Funny, We've been in continuous sunshine since mid January. Today it rained a about an inch or two. Yikes.