North Jersey Coast Line, Scenario 6, driving ALP-45DP on a winter morning. Which of these lightings are correct? What may have gone wrong, assuming it's bad now? Same computer, supposedly same settings, except for adaptive bloom being off as that was causing very awkward effects during nighttime scenarios. But it was only adding extra lo-fi lights. 2017-03-18 2020-12-19 I assume it's overbright due to this shot at Newark being funny, too. NYPenn and some others are seemingly okay, at least sort of. It's more of a weather specific thing, scenario 5 looks exactly the same as it did on my old screenshot.
Possibly (change in weather settings). Might it be weather intensity? It seems to be a little foggier, too. The entire picture has a yellow hue, though, even the station lights are yellow. The strolling woman certainly agrees with the note that it's Summer. One of the Koblenz-Trier heavy rain scenarios was similar. Didn't photograph that due to the pouring rain. I just remember being pitch black during the last 30 minutes. Weather stuff may have changed over the years, yes. Maybe just the quick drive defaults, but those seem to have changed to the procedural clouds seen on newer routes, compared to earlier simple fog, or lack of lights. This is rain: By the way, the winter weather looks like this for me everywhere. I had a screenshot preceding this one by 5-10 minutes, Castle Rock, at Monument. It was so yellow I decided to ditch it. Is there potentially a file where I could verify the weather settings? Not just file verification, I run that regularly. These are from a recent quick drive on Bristol-Exeter, 9am clear winter:
I just created a Bridgwater - Bristol Scenario to test what I got Start time was 09.00 in the Winter and the Sky is normal The Scenario Weather is sourced from \railworks\Assets\Kuju\RailSimulatorCore\Weather If the Weather files on your computer have got corrupted then it might explain the strange sky conditions Do you have the AP Weather Enhancement Pack installed? https://www.armstrongpowerhouse.com/enhancements/general/sky_weather_enhancement_pack I don't know if that might cause a problem? Peter
Thanks for the pointers! Did half of my research, I'll continue with it tomorrow. The NJT scenario uses this specific weather: RailWorks\Assets\DTG\NorthJerseyCoast\NorthJerseyCoastAssets.ap\Weather\3D Snowing.bin The files inside the ZIP have a timestamp of 2017-03-13 14:44. The ZIP itself has been updated on 2017-04-12 18:04. Which is later than my earlier scenario running. The MainContent.ap is 2016-08-04 18:46. The weather name 3D Snow is familiar, I think I used that for Castle Rock. Most likely from a different pack.
Alright, so my current understanding is that this default / widespread 3D Snow is somehow funny. Also very visible by browsing the current popular screenshots, stevems posted a bunch using LNER HST and a Virgin HST on two distinct routes and they are all yellow. Example: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2323268265 Either the designer comes from a very smoky place, this being his sad experience of winter, or some numbers are messed up. ... Or it's the side effect of the new lighting system introduced with TS 2020 or maybe earlier.
Early mornings in winter are often that ridiculous yellow colour with the standard sky textures, so I'd say the second one is "correct".