Improving Lights

[STe79ITA]

Hello,

I love DCS, and playing with VR is amazing but is there any intention to improve lights rendering?

The illumination, at night more then day is really bad and the situation seems to worsen with VR.

I will not take in cause other flight simulators but, i just did a comparison departing from Batumi at Sunrise. The "other" sim light management is awesome compared to DCS. Even in day time.

I would like to know if something is boiling or not.

 

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Edited October 29, 2018 by STe79ITA

[STe79ITA]

[Pilot909]

+1 Night lighting and lighting in general need to be improved 100%. The picture from your post shows exactly what I mean. If you look at pictures of Vegas at night compared to DCS Vegas at night its completely different. Night lights tend to have more of an orange hue (at least in the US) and so far in the sim community nobody does night light lighting better than Xplane. Here's a cool comparison of Vegas in DCS: https://www.helisimmer.com/wp-content-protected/uploads/2016/05/dcs-nevada-desert-night-2.jpg vs IRL: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OMw7Yx1Wl1k/maxresdefault.jpg

[Pilot909]

Aside from terrain lighting. Airport lighting needs to be improved as well. With hangar bay lighting and better parking spot lighting. I don't think illumination is modeled in the parking spot lights either because the cockpits and the jets are still pitch black as if no light was shining on them. Example 1: https://media.defense.gov/2015/Feb/11/2001014132/-1/-1/0/150204-F-MF020-364.JPG Example 2: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQX_1uO96vaISUv-cOKDG1CV1UJLaTcSvAqZ5ZtlOrqNAVUaVM5 and lastly Example 3 (aircraft carrier): http://media.techeblog.com/images/jet-landing-on-aircraft-carrier-night.jpg inversely, when you are taxiing at night and another jet taxiis behind you with a landing light it lights up the cockpit extremely brightly, with no shadows and no collision caused by the walls or frame or seat in the cockpit. Which essentaily means that at night, a cockpit is either EXTREMELY bright from an outside source or extremely dark while under an outside source with no in-between. Couple that with bad storm lighting (often a blue hue in DCS regardless of the hour) and some other lighting artifacts and what you get is a pretty poor overall night flight experience. I have faith DCS will eventually have great lighting (not just night) but I think in order for that to happen it needs to be brought up in the first place.

Edited October 31, 2018 by Pilot909