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Sorry, if this have been mention before.

When I stand outside a clear night, and watch the sky, I can see the navigations light from the aircraft up there miles away. I wish this were implanted in DCS World. Being able to see navigation light from a realistic distance. As it is today I think it fade away too soon.

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Aircraft lights are visible from tens of miles away. That's their purpose.

 

At night time you will see the lights of an aircraft (especially an airliner) long before you are able to make out its silhouette. This is especially true with the white strobe lights and landing lights.

 

I agree with Red Dragon here, the lights in DCS serve no purpose other than eye candy at this point. Nav light visibility distances similar to FSX/P3D is really what we need.

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This is a huge problem , Reflection of aircraft glass/ fuselage etc at distance should be greatly improved, Lights at distance nee also a serious improvement at distance.. for now they vanish.. they should stick out greatly instead :) SO yeas it is a pain and hopefully this is addressed and should be improved as priority really.

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yes - i support this idea

 

also (and equally important) aircraft lights have specific arcs of visibility --- this way you can roughly discern the aspect of the aircraft ((same or similar for ships))

 

it seems odd such amazing attention to detail is evident in so many places in DCS - and then you see something like this and wonder how it slipped through : )

 

i'm sure this is on an ED buglist somewhere, i hope its only a matter of time before it gets attention

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+1

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I was hoping this would be fixed with the model visibility settings but nav lights are just as difficult to see now as they were before. Nav lights are supposed to be easily visible for miles, so I hope ED addresses this at some point.

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+1 It would also teach those guys a leason that forget to turn them off when entering the AO :D

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+1

 

I find locating airbases without using TACAN, VOR, NDBs etc impossible, even when I'm on my downwind leg (yeah I shouldn't just be relying on mere guess work and VFR to navigate at night anyway but you get the point).

 

The same applies when teaching formation flying in the dark - people can't see me until they get really close.

 

Please fix this ED :cry:

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Any news on this ? Yesterday was doing a training flight with other members of my squadron at night time and was nearly impossible to stay on visual with each other.. It's hard to believe that something like this has not been sorted after too many years..

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yes, nav lights visibility should really be bumped.

on the mustang trainer (the free aircraft), the nav light even vanish completely with the first LOD switch (obviously a bug - haven't tested since last patch though)

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Unfortunately form what I've seen of the Alpha of Normandy, this has not yet been adressed. I hardly ever switch them on in 1.5 anymore they don't improve visibility one bit. :(

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Posted (edited)
Sorry, if this have been mention before.

When I stand outside a clear night, and watch the sky, I can see the navigations light from the aircraft up there miles away. I wish this were implanted in DCS World. Being able to see navigation light from a realistic distance. As it is today I think it fade away too soon.

 

 

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I gather you will see this after "THE MERGE" with better improved visual particle & lighting effects from new GFX engine.

 

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