Refuel exterior light lights up the cockpit

[Tripleinside]

Don't know if it is reproducible for you, but when doing Air refueling, the external refuel light shines into the cockpit.

[Timghetta]

Yes that has been adjusted I don't know when it will come out. The reason is DCS engine doesn't cast a shadow from the fuselage so the light doesn't shine in the cockpit. We adjusted it by rotating the light source slightly to the right. Just enough to keep it from coming in the cockpit but still able to light the refuel area.

 

There is still some light on the right aux panel.

[Tripleinside]

Thanks Timghetta !

[Azrayen]

Hello Tim

 

The reason is DCS engine doesn't cast a shadow from the fuselage

Yeah I noticed that too. Did you check material properties and so on? It seems weird, as other shadows are correctly casted. Wouldn't adding a "false" fuselage in the 3D model of the cockpit give a better result?

 

This issue also give weird results for the strobe lights in F2 view sometimes (or did, I didn't re-check recently I must admit).

 

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Az'

[Timghetta]

If you have an actual light source from max used such as flood light in cockpit (for example), it will shine through the console. In reality the flood light should cast a shadow on the floor from the console but doesn't in the DCS cockpit. :(

 

The Refuel lights or strobes make their way into the cockpit and the fuselage doesn't block it.

 

You can see this in the AV8BNA. The flood lights on the canopy bow, will cast light through the UFC to the opposite side of the panel.

Edited February 11, 2018 by Timghetta