Ozburne

That would be great if we could get some "official" news ...

Any news guys ?

I din't play FC 2.0 before the 1.2.1 patch so I cna't say if it was working well before. But your test ( thx by the way :thumbup: ) are just adding credits to what i said before : you got to choose between dynamic lights or full shadow at the moment . I reaaaaaaaaaaaly hope that our beloved editor won't ignore us and try to fix this issue. If you sure are sure about effects working together before the patch, that could mean that the last patch, wich enabled coop for DCS and FC 2 players, modified something in the game's engine.

I see what you mean Matze but the strange thing is that those effects were working well together when the first lockon was edited ... I clearly renember having full shadows and dynamic lights both working and making my computer to run like a PowerPoint presentation :P One thing that just make me "happy" is that the problem is not comming from my computer , that was my very first tought .

Ok budy , here's the results of my night test : Every screens were made here with full shadows 1:at the parkbox => Nav lights and landing light are working for me ( but not for my wingmen ...) 2: In the air => Flares are illuminating the plane ... but not making shadows like they should be in "full shadow" mod + the Nav lights are not glowing , as they do with "all planar" shadow option... 3: AfterBurner test 1 => No glow for me either ... 4: AfterBurner test 2 => My wingmen ( AI piloting ) do have PC glow ... 5: Missile test => lightning is working .... but even in "full shadow" mod you can't say that the shadows are dynamics one All I can say is that, expect for the afterburner glow "bug", it seems that during night the game engine isn't using full shadows even if selected in the option screen. That explain why you have "most" of the dynamic lights effect , but not all of them again . So I guess I was right from the beguining : full shadow + dynamics light = FAIL :music_whistling:

Hi Matze81. Damn you're lucky enough to get both flare and weapon illuminations with full shadow enabled. Even without mods if I put shadows to full I don't get any lights from those effects ... :( And when i see your computer's specs I realize that both have an Nvidia gtx 2xx and a 64 bit Windows ... I made some more test ( drivers , texture filtering in nvidia control panel ... ) and I'm running out of ideas ... P.S: here's a picture with full shadow enable on my system.

Same here again , and all my test were done with a "vanilla" game :) No custom models for the moment .

You were lucky or you had a video card that was older than 8800 series , cause the full shadow bug came with direct x 9. The game's engine wasn't supporting shaders of this direct X at this time

Like I said in my first post it's not only the afterburner glow that dosen't work. Just make a quick test for me please :) : turn shadows to "full" then make a quick start with any plane and hit some flares. My guess is that won't have any light effect on your plane. On my computer reverting shadows to "all planar" gave me dynamic lights effect back ... but without dynamic shadows ... :( Actually it seems that you got to make a choice : "full shadow" or "dynamic lights".

I'm just guessing the game's engine is still very buggy for graphics ... I hope they still read this forum ( ED guys I mean ).

In fact after some test it seems that they lied to us about one thing ... the re-introduction on the "full" shadows . If you set shadows to "full" you will not get any lights effect from weapons, afterburner or flares ( even fire ... ). If you set back shadows to "all planar" like in previous versions you'll get back all of the effect listed above .... That's a shame , isn't it ?

Thanks for the response , but when i look to the AI plane the camera is watching from the rear and the plane isn't supersonic :disgust: I got this issue with and without submods ...

Hi guys, I just bought FC2 and everythings looks great :smilewink: Except for one thing : with external view ( F2) , if my plane hit afterburner i can hear the sound properly ; but if i put the camera on a plane usiong afterburner and controlled by the AI i can't hear its afterburner sound :huh: Does anyone got this issue too ? PS: running under WIN 7 64 with I7 920 , gtx 260 and an X-FI soundcard . All drivers up to date !