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It can be easy to get lost between all these environment products. A simple explanation about how the Envproducts line works is explained here
All of our products are available through our partner SimMarket.
Envshade requires Envdir to install the shaders to the simulator. Here is a small video tutorial by CptVince. If you prefer a writen tutorial, please scroll down and follow the instruction below.
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Once Envdir is installed, please just launch it as an administrator then: - First of all, click on the Settings page logo on the left menu. The settings page will appear and you will be able to choose your prefered quality, if you want to customize all of the available settings, please choose "Custom".
- Once you have chosen your prefered quality set, scroll down to the Envshade settings and make sure the "Shaders" switch is set to ON. If you chose the "Custom" quality set, you will be able to choose between the performance preset or the high quality preset.
- Finally you just need to click the install button (the green button) on the left menu. You can also open the full menu by clicking the small button on the top left.
- Once the install is complete the following "Install complete" popup should appear, just click "OK" and launch your simulator.
Envtex and Envshade installations are pretty straight forward. If you need help to install these product using the simmarket installer, please refer to this tutorial.
Reloading your shaders is now possible on P3D v4 and P3D v5, for this you only need to assign a hotkey in Prepar3D settings as following: Add a hotkey assignment to “Reload shaders” in P3D settings.
In our example we have used the “R” key.
Once this is done you will be able to apply your shaders settings from Envdir as much as needed and use the hotkey to see the changes.