Changelog

Pure 3.10

reflections: some tweaks on the cubemap booster of the sunblinding shader

Pure 3.09

UI: fixed a bug with radio buttons (can have the same option names now)
skydomes: fixed a bug with rotation oscillation movement

Pure 3.08

skydomes: added rotation oscillation to simulate movement with wind and a variable sun coverage

Pure 3.07

Pure Config: added "GrassFX shading" in the Light tab
Pure Gamma + LCS: fixed grassFX shading

Pure 3.06

Pure Gamma: a workaround for too bright graphics in CSP 0.3.xxx Main Menu

Pure 3.05

Pure LCS: gained Glare in HDR mode (YEBIS replacement)

Pure 3.04

exposure tool - fixed appearance on custom pages in Pure PP app
exposure tool - Gamma / reduced exposure uplift with cloud shadow

Pure 3.03

Pure LCS - lightPP: (YEBIS replacement) changed how Glare luminance and threshold is used
updated HDR tutorial.pdf with CSP 0.3.xxx settings

Pure 3.02

Pure config: v 1.82, added moon.no_shadows in Night tab
night: shadow handling with moonlight, shadows can be deactivated with moonlight in nighttimes
clouds: fixed a bug where clouds_render.shadows_strength had no effect
clouds: added section:setStaticLighting(x), to prevent the moon light changing the skydomes appearance

Pure 3.01

fixed a bug with loading PPfilters other than "pure"
fixed moon appearance with low altitudes
removed the "ReflectionsFX not enabled" error in Pure Config app with CSP versions higher than CSP 0.2.10

Pure 3.0 release

Pure 2.68

added clouds shadows parameter in Pure Config Clouds tab, clouds shadows can be removed and possible sun in overcast weathers

Pure 2.67

LCS: fix of white reference point with changed day light multiplier

Pure 2.66

several fixes
CSP: fixed crashes with newer CSP 0.3 builds

Pure 2.65

fixed a bug with the connection between Pure Planner, Pure Config and Pure weather script in newer CSP versions

Pure 2.64

exposure: fixed VR white reference point in Pure LCS

Pure 2.63

moon: fixed appearance (black moon - bug from Pure 2.60)
reflections: added CSP sky reflections parameters in Pure Config - Lights tab / reflections

Pure 2.62

weather: added INPUTs for csp config files, "SNOW" + "ASH"

[CONDITION_...]
NAME=SEASON_WINTER
INPUT=SNOW
LUT = (|-1=0|0=0|0.3=1.0|1=1|)
LAG=0

Pure 2.61

apps: Pure Planner v1.78, fixed date mouse wheel change in Stamp mode
clouds: fixed shadows appearance with skydomes and selected "advanced shadows sun cover" option
pp: added a switch for HDR->SDR conversion and custom gamma value for Pure LCS
- it is now possible to deactivate the HDR to SDR conversion. Please only do this if you want to do your own conversion in the tonemapping!!!
- You must know what you do there!
track: fixed Fata Morgana / Heat effect for Pure LCS

Pure 2.60

space: fixed moon appearance

Pure 2.59

config: proper recall of skydomes sets

Pure 2.58

shaders: mountain, better algorithm
spice: fixed a bug with LDR
spice: fixed a bug with not detecting custom effects
skydomes: fixed how the color multiplier works and added pure.world.skydomes.setRGB(r,g,b), pure.world.skydomes.setHSV(h,s,v) to Pure Gamma

Pure 2.57

shaders: sunblinding (Pure LCS), fixed a bug with a leftover sun flash after disappearing

Pure 2.56

ppfilter: "pureLinear" added a camera like exposure lift "Exposure uplift" (Gamma + LCS)
track: added "Tunnel Helper" to Pure Gamma
- prevents exposure gains in indoor tracks and normal tunnels
- for now only Shutoko has the "Tunnel Helper" option by default
UI: fixed a bug in custom pages where UI elements were rendered twice

Pure 2.55

ppfilter: "pure" ppfilter ini / Pure Gamma, lowered shape bloom luminance to prevent a bug in CSP
postprocessing/shader: fixed a bug in Pure Gamma with missing shader color conversions code
shaders: "mountain" shader
- some finetuning of parameters and shader code.

Pure 2.54

weather: fixed a bug in Pure Gamma where missing snow and ash values lead to a wfx error
shaders: "mountain" shader
- some finetuning of parameters and shader code.

Pure 2.53

shaders: "mountain" shader
- some finetuning of parameters and shader code.
- added a check of CSP 0.2.7p36 (minimum version to use this shader)
exposure handling: LCS - camera/hybrid mode, static exposure in tunnels is multiplied by the track adaption tunnel_helper
- The exposure only gets fixed in tunnels with activated tunnel helper at a track

Pure 2.52

apps: Pure Planner v1.77, fixed plan AutoStart
fog: very clear fog with lowest smog values
shaders: new "mountain" shader for Pure LCS
- In its first version it delivers a fog textures to boost the fog of the skydomes over mountians.
- This give better visuals and mountains are not that separated anymore with low fog values.

Pure 2.51

camera: bypassing the tunnel logic in showrooms
core: Pure Gamma and LCS are now working in showrooms!

Pure 2.50

sdk: added pure.exposure.getBypassValue(), pure.exposure.getBypassMix()
sdk: added pure.utils.CamIsInTunnel() in Pure Gamma
script tools: exposure handling - method 2/hybrid, added fixed exposure in tunnels
ppfilter/script: switch to exposure handling method 2 for "pure" in Pure Gamma

Pure 2.49

apps: Pure PP v0.5, added more custom UI, images + text
spice: fixed HDR part in Pure Gamma
ppf/scripts: added some UI stuff to the "pure" LCS and Gamma ppfilter to show how it works.

Pure 2.48

apps: Pure Config v1.77, some UI tweaks
apps: Pure PP v0.5, some UI tweaks
weather/config: added "weather.use_weather_particles" parameter to switch of weather particles completely
shaders/config: added shader dummy parameters to prevent errors, when accessing Pure shader parameters in eco mode
script: added pure.script.ui.addPage("something"), to add a new tab under the "Script" page in Pure PP app

Pure 2.47

core/settings: added an "Economic mode" option in weatherFX for Pure Gamma
- deactivates clouds, shaders, spice completely in the code
- uses a 4 frame cpu split to save more cpu consumption
core: updated cpu split utils in Pure Gamma

Pure 2.46

apps: Pure Config v1.76, removed the FXAA 3.11 warning
spice/bridge: fixed the FXAA 3.11 bug
ppfilter/script: "pure", switched to camera-based exposure method

Pure 2.45

script: added "pure.world.getPureGammaFogTable()" to retrieve the complete fog table of Pure Gamma
core/settings: added an "Economic mode" option in weatherFX for Pure LCS
- deactivates clouds, shaders, spice completely in the code
- uses a 5 frame cpu split to save more cpu consumption

Pure 2.44

script:
- added "pure.script.save()" to force the saving of the script settings.
- added "pure.utils.CamFacesSunRaw", the raw, unsmoothed value of the sunblinding shader output
some small fixes

Pure 2.43

some small fixes

Pure 2.42

spice: added custom HDR effects (PP + global)

Pure 2.41

skydomes: fixed a problem with the dummy mask texture
spice: fixed a bug in the LDR render pipeline, now using alternating canvases to pass render data

Pure 2.40

spice: fixed many bugs with the custom LDR effects

Pure 2.39

core: fixed CSP folder requests
spice: added custom LDR effects interface (global + ppfilter)
light PP: better bloom shader from default wfx with some modifications (Pure LCS)

Pure 2.38

weather: added CSP snow shader control (CSP 0.2.5 or 0.2.6p1 or higher)
NLP: limiting density from track configs
added grassFX speculars and reflectivity fix
ai: fixed AI headlights with newer CSP versions

Pure 2.37

spice: proper deactivation of the Spice LDR Lua Scriptable filter bridge

Pure 2.36

apps: Pure Config
- added PPoff page (if PostProcessing is deactivated) (only works in Gamma)
- proper start of Pure LCS if "activate Pure" is pressed
- fixed some bugs with "Try to fix wrong settings"
- added FXAA 3.1 to the settings checklist
apps: Pure PP:
- proper start of Pure LCS if "activate Pure" is pressed
ambient, fixed lowest ambient light
spice:
- added and LDR switch, if deactivated it will no longer use the CSP Lua Scriptable filter

Pure 2.35

files: added removing of Pure PP app to uninstall_pure.bat

Pure 2.34

spice: fixed deactivation with VR in Pure Gamma

Pure 2.33

spice: properly setting pixel density with Curve Screen (fixes the screen flicker after activating the effect)
spice: some tweaks to Speed tunnel and a new parameter to have it also in non cockpit views

Pure 2.32

stellar: a workaround for the wrong moon appearance in LCS shaders (moon was not properly hidden by clouds) equal version numbers for Pure Gamma and LCS

Pure LCS 1.31 + Gamma 1.32

shader: sunblinding, adapted cubemaps and mirror booster to fog
tonemapping: fixed a bug in Pure Gamma with custom rgb tonemapping shaders and lightPP mode
pp: added luma_midpoint parameter to shift the luminance reference level
pp lua bridge: brutally force CSP to set the correct state
spice: removed "colorgrading"
ppf/scripts:
- added dynamic luminance saturation to the pure sub-scripts
- removed color-blindness code from hdr script. dynamic luminance saturation does it now.
- recalibrated tonemapping in hdr sub-script

Pure LCS 1.30 + Gamma 1.31

Pure Config: fixed a typo with "cupemap"
pp: reworked luma saturation
- finally get it right
- added luma invert and luma threshold
- added it for all pp mode in LCS and Gamma
shaders: sunblinding, fixed a typo with "cupemap"
spice:
- added a saturation meter for the render bars

Pure LCS 1.29 + Gamma 1.30

apps: Pure Planner v1.76
- added a button to set time and date in "Day" and "Timed" plan to the live track time date.
apps: Pure PP v0.22
- fixed some bugs with the tonemapping debug tools
config: fix a bug with root config
skydomes:
- better looking fade of the pollution tint
- removed birds from "180909074" (few clouds 8°) + optimizing dynamics
spice:
- added a new calibration method "colors"

Pure LCS 1.28 + Gamma 1.29

Pure Config, v1.73
- showing the quality settings determination
config: added a settings determination function for the quality settings
pp/config: fixes wrong script settings path
fog/weather: added a pollution tint to the conditions
weather definitions: defining a pollution tint for Dust, Sand and Smoke
spice:
- some small tweaks to Pure Gamma Magic Bloom
- Lua Scriptable Filter Bridge reset if Curved Screen was deactivated, to remove the side-menu settings icon

Pure LCS 1.27 + Gamma 1.28

Pure Config, v1.72
- return of the quality buttons, added groundfog settings
- some changes to a proper initialization of all connections to Pure wfx
pp/config: some fixes with script settings handling
config (LCS): separated root and general config
weather definitions: some little changes on "Dust" and "Sand"

Pure LCS 1.26 + Gamma 1.27

core: connect, proper handling of multi app connections to the same config
lights: automatic adaption of "white reference point" if VR is not used, to adapt the brightness of artificial AC overlays (like the race line)
- This actually needs a better solution, it is just a workaround for now

Pure LCS 1.25 + Gamma 1.26

light: finetuning of sunlight with lowest sunangles
skydomes: added a new texture for scattered clouds
- new 256406606 for 0° - 6°
- existing 183249448 moved to -10° - 0°
skydomes: added a new texture for dust
- new 159534776 for < 8°
skydomes: improved tonal dynamic for many sunset textures
skydomes: more tweaks
spice:
- some performance modifications on "Magic Bloom"
- added "Curved Screen" filter from base LUA scriptables filters
- more work on "Overlay"
- started work on "Color Grading" - not working yet...
UI:
- added icon buttons
- added handling for STRING_STORE data types
sdk
- added pure.world.skydomes.setHSV(h, s, v)
- added pure.world.skydomes.setRGB(r, g, b)

Pure LCS 1.24 + Gamma 1.25

exposure:
- finetuning of CBE and AE determination
- fixed YEBIS AE with daylight multiplier changes
- activated alternative AE method by default
  - This method delivers more stable values
  - You can switch it of with "pure.exposure.yebis.useAlternativeAutoexposure(false)"
script-tools: exposure handling, fixed a bug with daylight multiplier and mode 2 (camera mode) like in pureCandy

Pure LCS 1.23 + Gamma 1.25

apps: Pure Planner 1.75, set pureCtrl static as controller in weather_fx.ini if not set already.
AI: added sunangle to control headlight activation
pp: added a bridge to Lua Scriptable Filters
- this is used to integrate LDR shaders
lua pp bridge: added a Lua Scriptable filter to communicate with Pure.
spice:
- is now activated by default and does not cause any frame loss if active and no effects are activated
- added SpeedTunnel effect (HDR)
- added LDR calibration + charts (LDR)
script tools: exposure handling
- improved the exposure calculation
- mode 2 (camera mode), mix is now a fixed parameter (100% mix means 100% Autoexposure - 0% means 100% CBE based exposure)
core: changed the way how daylight multiplier is handled
- all world lights are now controlled by it
- exposure, CBE are staying stable when changing daylight multiplier
- daylight boost is faded much earlier to standard level with sunset
skydomes: fixed moonlight lighting
stellar: some work on the moonlight
ppf/script: pure sub-scripts, pure + pureCandy
- lowered daylight multiplier to 0.34
- improved exposure
files:
- cleaned the changelog, newest entries are on top now

Pure LCS 1.22 + Gamma 1.24

apps: Pure PP v0.2
- added wfx reset button
- fixed some bugs
sdk: added:
- pure.script.ui.showElement(id), to show a hidden element
- pure.script.ui.hideElement(id), to hide an element
  - you get the id when you create the element like, id = pure.script.ui.addCheckbox("Nice", true)
script tools: exposure handling, added "show_ui = false" argument, to hide all UI elements.
- the UI elements are still exisiting
- Example: pure.script.tools.handleExposure(2, {method = 5, target = 1.00, mix = 1.00, minimumexposure = 0.020, fixedexposure = 0.20, superexposure = 0.50, show_ui = false})
pp: added pp.luma_invert,
- if unchecked, all tones above the pp.luma_threshold will get processed with the selected pp.luma_saturation
- if checked, all tones below the pp.luma_threshold will get processed with the selected pp.luma_saturation
config: added sun.sun_moon_size (Sky tab)

GAMMA:

shaders: landscape, fixed horizon look

Pure LCS 1.20 + Gamma 1.22

apps: pureConfig v1.70
- removed "PP" tab
apps: purePP v0.1
- new app to customize PP scripts.
- general PP is now part of the script settings
skydomes: slower sun shutter if cam faces sun in advanced shadows mode
pp: added PP shader system to Pure Gamma
script:
- added set_pure_script() as another function in the ppfilter script.
- if you define:
```
function set_pure_script()
end
```
- it will be called just right after the Pure initialization and so you can set pure parameters once and check config settings.

script: added uv cords to tonemapping

float3 tonemapping(float3 x, float2 uv){
    return x;
}
as your main loop and set your tonemapping shader via:
pure.pp.setCustomRGB_UV_Tonemapping(shader)

spice:
- some work on "Magic Bloom"
- added "Sensor Noise" effect
ppfilters/script: added "Spice" usage to "pure" and "pureCandy"
- to use Spice in your script, add pure.pp.UseSpice() in your init_pure_script() function

Pure LCS 1.21 + Gamma 1.23

script:
- correctly loaded pp settings from init_pure() function
pp/shaders: setting all textures to 16bit per channel to gain performance

Pure LCS 1.19

skydomes: some more edits
ambient light: boost of distant ambient light with cloud coverage
pp: integrated a proper pass handling
- Pure shaders are now integrated in the PP passes
pp: added custom pp shaders system
- works in parallel to YEBIS and lightPP
pp: added "Spice" PP suite
- added Magic Bloom effect
lightPP: fixed godrays
ppfilter/scripts: added Spice in pureCandy
- custom control of Magic Bloom

Pure LCS 1.18 + Pure Gamma 1.21

skydomes:
- finetuning for Pure Gamma
- new edits of bad weather textures
- removing of unwanted denoising artifacts

Pure LCS 1.17 + Pure Gamma 1.20

apps: Pure Config v1.63,
- added sound tab
shaders: groundfog (LCS)
- added a logic to desaturate near fog, if fog consists of water
skydomes: changed the method how the fade to the horizon is done
- added methods to control the fade
- added a shader to do the fade
- the shader also renders in mirrors and cubemaps, which solves some longtime issues with cubemaps
- worked on all skydomes texture, better denoising, removed the alpha channel
sound: added Pure Gamma sound system to Pure LCS
- reduced puddles sound
ppfilter/scripts: pureCandy, more atmospheric godrays in LCS version

Pure LCS 1.16

apps: Pure Config, fixed headlight control, if Pure Config is hidden
sunblinding:
- fixed cubemaps look if sun is not visible

Pure LCS 1.15

apps: Pure Config v1.62,
- added a new tab "Config"
- added videomode + track related config system
ppfilters: subscripts, tweaked sunblinding controls

Pure LCS 1.14

shaders: sunblinding
- added the "iris" slider to control brightness/contrast changes.
- minor tweaks
ppfilters: subscripts, tweaked sunblinding controls

Pure LCS 1.13

shaders: sunblinding
- fixed a bug with ghost pictures and ghost glare
- cleaned code
- minor tweaks

Pure LCS 1.11

apps: Pure Config, fixed a bug with blank window
sunblinding:
- proper stereo analyzation
- fixed a bug with SPS in exterior views

Pure LCS 1.12

ambient light: lowered NLP level to 0.2x of the value before
exposure: added a new function to set a real high limit
- exposure will no more beyond superexposure value
UI: fixed some bugs with connect UI elements
shaders: sunblinding
- new render method
- new visuals
pp: created a workaround for the not working PP vignette control
- Vignette is now rendered in Pure pp render
- To control vignette in the PPfilter script, Vingette must be set lower than 0.1 in the PPfilter ini!!!
ppfilters: subscripts, lowered superexposure to 0.35

Pure LCS 1.10 (bugfix release version)

ppfilters: pureCandy, some tweaks

Pure LCS 1.06

ppfilters: pureCandy, more tweaks in HDR and VR
ppfilters: subscripts, VR - removed godrays flicker with slight cloud coverage

Pure LCS 1.06 + Pure Gamma 1.17

core: changed to CSP config parser for video.ini and graphics.ini
- That solves problems with special characters in file and folder names.
- A typical bug was: Users with special ASCII characters could not load ppfilters + scripts properly in VR.

Pure LCS 1.05

shaders: sunblinding,
- removed depthmap analyzing
- readjusting analyzation areas
- fixed a bug where shadows are killed

Pure LCS 1.04

shaders: sunblinding, added a simple pass to check sun's coverage of transparent textures
ppfilters: pureCandy, much better settings

Pure LCS 1.03

apps: Pure Config, changed connection to Pure wfx
- Connection is now established in general and not only if the UI is active
- This will ensure that side processes like the headlight controls are working without the UI.
camera: updating track heading angle to ensure photo mode app lighting angle is handled properly
shaders: landscape, added ocean texture
shaders: sunblinding, added a warning to activate "NVIDIA VRS" if Single Pass Stereo is used and this setting is deactivated.
ppfilters: pureCandy, new colorgrading, tweaks

Pure LCS 1.02

apps: Pure Config, shows a warning if the current PPfilter has a Pure Gamma script but not a Pure LCS script
- "This PPfilter might only be compatible with Pure Gamma!"
pp: godrays control, expand angle for triple screens

Pure Gamma 1.16

pp: godrays control, expand angle for triple screens

Pure LCS 1.01

Pure Config, changed PPfilter script warning
skydomes, fixed online Pure override mode
shaders: sunblinding
- improved look of cubemaps booster

Pure LCS 1.00 (release)

config: ppfilter related config is now correctly loaded from /purelcs_scripts folder
shaders: sunblinding
- fixed appearance of cubemaps and mirrors booster
- improved look of cubemaps booster
ppfilters: some small tweaks