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A sneak peek at the future of Pure

Just to show you, why it is a little bit quiet since some time.

With the latest CSP versions, the integration of own shaders is possible. In the last months, i digged in the basics of shader coding and build in a dynamic shader environment into Pure. You already see it in Pure Config app (with the rain haze shader). This gives me a fast testground to try out things.

I started to dig into voluemtric clouds shaders. In the last weeks i experimented with found code and expanded it ...

Reports of constant crashes with NVIDIA driver

!!! NVIDIA users with driver 526.98 !!!
If you got AC/CSP crashes, please roll back to driver version 526.86.
This will probably fix the crashes...

Sol 2.2.5 and Pure

Hello,

If you use Sol and Pure, please install Sol 2.2.5 on top of your existing Pure.
I prepare an update of Pure with all those changes and some other bug fixes.
I hope i can release it in the next days.

Sol 2.2.5 download links:
mega: https://mega.nz/file/tWlR1QRL#XmGxRtz7TlxsNJT7VwnIzSS9-CRcu921D31cIZCnNEQ
2022-11-18 11:34:42 +0000 UTC View Post

0.142 Installer fix

For those who had problems with the 0.142 installer, please download the Pure 0.142b base and install again.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pure-0-142-72720063

The former installer contains parts of Pure (PurePlanner app and Pure controller), which are still in development, so i removed it from the base data. Therefore the installer outputs some error message.

Those error messages does not ...

Pure 0.142 development preview

Hello my dear supporters,

Here is Pure 0.142 development preview. Many, many bugs were fixed and many new features were implemented.

Pure Config app got some features like the mouse-scroll parameter edit and right-mouse parameter reset. Also, there is an option, to have separate configs for different video modes (VR and/or ppOff).
Select multi configs in Pure Config
2022-10-01 07:07:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Pure development preview 0.115 bugfix

I found a littel bug in Pure 0.115.
The colors are shifted a tiny bit. You will not notice this while looking at the landscape or cars. But this little shift is causing wrong colors with emissive lights, like shift lights. In its extreme form, shift lights can look purple, where as they are originally blue, like in the RaceSimStudio Formula Hybrid 22.

This bugfix will solve this problem. I changed the files of the original Pure 0.115 post. So feel free to install Pure 0.115b, to avo...

Pure development preview 0.115

New sky textures
Pure got 5 new skydome textures (for Windy, Few Clouds and Scattered Clouds weather).

Extended fog settings
Real distant tracks (tracks with real distant geometry, which have no faked distance objects) can now benefit from a much better fog look. Most of those real distance tracks are already tagged and working with the new code. Track modders can add the lines:
[PURE]
FOG_SHAPE=-1
in the track configs, t...

Pure development preview 0.102

(its version "0" for development, "." for subversion, "102" incrementing subversion number)

new features

* rain and wind sounds
* skydomes, 2d clouds - 360° sky pictures

improvements

* fog, more advanced influences to sun and ambient light
* ambient light, much better look
* advanced ambient light, a simple simulation of radiosity
* stars, dynamic adaption of stars visibility
* noPP (deactivated Post-Processin...

The current work on Pure

I'm proud to present you a new way of drawing clouds in the sky!
The current state of Pure 0.75 has already a nice color composition and more ways to have good tonemapping. It already has various solutions for old AC problems, like Autoexposure and the way weather is created. It is also way more advanced than Sol code-wise.

But the current 3d clouds are lacking quality, if the are generated to use less gpu/cpu consumption. Many people wish a port of the 2d clouds from Sol to Pure. 2022-02-26 13:14:26 +0000 UTC View Post

The meaning of your patreon subscription

My dear Patrons,

You will see Pure on sharing sites in the future. There will always be people, who take the work of someone and share it for free. Thats an old behavior and actually, i don't think its stealing.
Because you are not paying for a product, but you support the development. And i wanted to say thank you, for that support and for your trust in me.

At the end, pure will be a free software, but as long as it is in development, i don't want to have a too big support wo...

Pure 0.75 development preview

Please read the install guide! There is a new install method!!!

You need at least CSP 1.76 public (1819) or 1.77preview1

Pure 0.75 has done a big step. Some big problems are solved.

Pure now uses its own exposure calculation.
This works much better then YEBIS Autoexposure. CSP's Cubemap Brightness Estimation is now used to calculate to whole exposure. This is much more stable and does not vary with different cockpit...

A little preview for Pure 0.7x

New Pure development preview soon...

Sorry for the late next development preview of Pure. But i'm working still on some important things. The next build will have a complete new way of exposure control, which is no longer dependent of Yebis' AutoExposure. So nearly all problems of the behavoirs with the AE are solved.

The next build will bring improvements with VR too. I was able to fix many bugs when using VR. Maybe for some users there is another improvement in VR. I achieved a much better look with PostProcessing deact...

Pure 0.58 development preview

!!! You need CSP 1.76 RELEASE VERSION (not preview)
or later (like CSP 1.77 preview 1) !!!
Please read the included Pure install guide.pdf

Some important settings:
Video:
Do not use a static refelctions rendering frequency!

CSP / Reflections FX:
The modul itself and all "General Cubemap reflections" options must be active!

- edit - 04.01.2022
fixe...

2021-12-22 17:26:26 +0000 UTC View Post