Mornings pitch dark

[cicimicikiller]

Hi, I think that there is some time of day or time zone problem or something at Caucasus (not tested on other maps).

 

 

 

With date set to 9th january 2019, 8:50am, it's pitch dark outside. I know in winter the sunrise is late but not that late. I live in Slovakia (northern than Georgia) and we definitely have daylight at 8:50 am.

 

 

 

I'm not sure now if the time is zulu or local, but anyway it should be 12:50 at Georgia if that's zulu time so..

 

 

Can anyone have a look into this?

[cicimicikiller]

Bump

[ScopeDope]

The problem lies in the way DCS handles the transition from night to day. If you want to see it, put it on a full moon night, about an hour before sunrise, and time accelerate it. You will have lovely moon lighting that fades to a pitch black night just before the sunrise sequence starts. It is a fundamental lighting issue that ED needs to resolve.

[Ironhand]

The problem lies in the way DCS handles the transition from night to day. If you want to see it, put it on a full moon night, about an hour before sunrise, and time accelerate it. You will have lovely moon lighting that fades to a pitch black night just before the sunrise sequence starts. It is a fundamental lighting issue that ED needs to resolve.

Really? The transition from night to day is fairly good on my end with a very nice morning twilight. The OP’s issue is that the sim’s sunrise/sunset times don’t mirror the calendar’s. They’re off by roughly 1/2 to more than an hour depending on the season.

[discwalker]

Just listen to ScopeDope about full moon lighting. In caucasus full moon start shine in pich dark 2019 april 19 21:30-21:40 The same applies to the morning transition, full moon light gone before sunrise.

[Ironhand]

Just listen to ScopeDope about full moon lighting. In caucasus full moon start shine in pich dark 2019 april 19 21:30-21:40 The same applies to the morning transition, full moon light gone before sunrise.

Yes, I was referring to his opening statement. Without the moon, I find the transition relatively smooth. The moon does change things. Very interesting what you see, when you speed up the moonset (actually the moon's premature disappearance and later reappearance with the coming daylight):

 

 

That flash is really interesting. At normal speed, rather than a flash of daylight, I see the sudden appearance of faint banding that shimmers and moves.

[Volator]

It appears there is a problem with sunrise / sunset times in DCS. I just checked with the CWG map, around Frankfurt the sunrise these days should be at around 0730 local, but in game (ME) it is one hour late. Same goes for sunset, it should happen in the Frankfurt area around 1645 local, but in-game it is shown at around 1730 in the ME.

[Volator]

0800 local in mid-November in Southern Germany... no way ED, this is wrong.

 

 

[silverdevil]

39 minutes ago, Volator said:

0800 local in mid-November in Southern Germany... no way ED, this is wrong.

you should start a new topic. this one is 6 years old which has to be some sort of record. if you post a new topic there is a better chance of someone responding.

[Volator]

9 minutes ago, silverdevil said:

you should start a new topic. this one is 6 years old which has to be some sort of record. if you post a new topic there is a better chance of someone responding.

You are probably right, will do, even though I frown upon opening several new threads on the same old problem and thereby clogging the forum...

[silverdevil]

6 minutes ago, Volator said:

You are probably right, will do, even though I frown upon opening several new threads on the same old problem and thereby clogging the forum...

i do agree with you though that the lighting in DCS is whacked. it is only a suspicion, and probably irrelevant, but it seems like they forgot that germany does not have daylight savings time. there have been other anomalies over the years with weirdness in the lighting at sunup and sundown.