FEX & Steam Edition

If I point FEX to the SE path C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX-SE will it work installing textures?

Thanks

OK

thanks

Looks like I started the post with the wrong path Embarrassed

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\fsx.exe

thanks Nick Beer

Thought so

But if they end up at one point changing folder structure down the road, it wont work anymore

Right now its simply a matter of changing the target in the options.

If they still have the online system functioning will find my sky/water/clouds in the list of themes offered too, but the water requires my custom shader edits to really pop

Clouds: Naturally Dense 2

Water: NicksNaturalWonder3

Water Animation: Medium Pacific

Sky: Realistic Blues

electric man wrote:

Hi Nick, where can we find these shader edits? your themes are still downloadable with FEX, no problem there.

Herman

I think you'll find them here, unless Nick is talking about a different post.

http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=34308&PID=199362#199362

Every screenshot you have ever seen me make since 2010 has the FEX themes I posted above in it with my shader edits in play

Clouds: Naturally Dense 2

Water: NicksNaturalWonder3

Water Animation: Medium Pacific

Sky: Realistic Blues

This is my water shader file made ONLY FOR the FEX water theme NicksNaturalWonder3 listed above: http://gex.flight1.net/forumimages/Nicks_Shader_Edits.zip

NOTE: This is for DX9 only and will do nothing in DX10

Instructions:

Unzip file

Browse to: Flight Simulator X\ShadersHLSL\Terrain (or the FSXSE version same folder)

Find the file named: Water20.fxh and BACK IT UP

Drop my custom Water20.fxh file into the Flight Simulator X\ShadersHLSL\Terrain directory overwritting the original

THEN

With HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS disabled in Windows..

Browse to:
C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\FSX\Shaders\Terrain <----- OPEN this folder

BACK UP the contents of that Terrain folder just in case (just a precaution)

Then DELETE everything in that Terrain folder

When you boot FSX it will rebuild the shader files in that folder

Reverse process to RESTORE original

NOTE: The shader changes make 2xLow look like 2xMED and 2xMED look like 2xHIGH but without running the next level up. 2xMAX looks just ridiculously awesome at water level in a float plane.. but really? other than screenshot bragging at water elevation, its not worth the shader pass above 2xLow/Med anyway LOL It also fixes the moon at night and the ridiculous reflections it makes as well as the hard cloud reflections that are so bad.

That does not matter, the shader only effects water

60 miles is my preferred setting regardless and let the weather itself do the rest

NickN wrote:

That does not matter, the shader only effects water

60 miles is my preferred setting regardless and let the weather itself do the rest

yeah, I was just curious of the over all look you go for sense I have your sky, clouds etc. installed.