FAC Illumination does not illuminate area

[rrohde]

I noticed that in 2 of the Ka-50 campaigns (Deployment and Georgian Oil War) missions, a FAC A/C was supposed to drop illuminating ordnance in order to illuminate the target area during these night missions for my Ka-50 to lase some targets, but the target areas never got illuminated and stayed dark.

Sad to no longer continue campaigns because of such an EDGE engine issue as it was impossible to finish.

 

I believe that might be a glitch similar to what is shown here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=150299 and here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=153945&highlight=lighting

Edited December 23, 2015 by rrohde

[Bourrinopathe]

Bump.

It's probably related to the same dynamic lights issues reported previously.

I thought it would be fixed in 1.5 release. Let's hope they're not struggling with that specific bug and that they're modifying the rendering process or something.

 

Just for reference, some related posts:

[DUPLICATE] Still no light reflections...

landing light effect on fuselage gone?

Objects not illuminated by taxi lights

(I can't find the [REPORTED] one, but it should be there, somewhere)

 

As you mentioned, it's unfortunate it prevents completing some missions.

My guess is it's a visual effect bug and it may not be on top of the bugs "most wanted" list. It still affects some missions but not a large part of the simulation. At least, it's how I see it and it will probably be fixed as soon as they squash more important bugs.

 

Sometimes I'd like DCSW to be an open source project, so many qualified users could help improving the engine ;)