AOA indexer lights and NWS,AAR Lights?

[Deano87]

Hey all,

 

I fired up DCS for the first time in a while (after updating to latest open beta, and clearing out fxo and Metashaders before you ask  ) and went and did some night AAR practice and night ILS circuits to get myself back into the swing of things. For some reason my AoA indexer lights and the NWS, AAR lights on either side of the HUD are completely black? I carried on flying and didn’t get a chance to get a screenshot or try again during the daytime, but I’m just wondering is this a known bug or something I need to investigate further and report?

 

I spawned multiple times and it was the same every time.

Edited December 14, 2020 by Deano87

[MadCat1381]

Hey!

 

Since the last patch they are turned dark with these little brightness adjusters on the outside of the indexer light housings. You just need to adjust them to a higher brightness.
I have no idea why the developers did this. Makes no sense to me at all and I stumbled over it as well.

Edited December 14, 2020 by MadCat1381

[Deano87]

Derp. Of course!

I know how those work IRL and I didn't even consider that they had added the functionality in lol, Its a shame they don't default to max brightness or something sensible. It'll be nice to be able to turn them down though as the AOA indexer was BLINDING at night and in NVGs before.

Thanks for your help! 

 

Cheers

D

Edited December 14, 2020 by Deano87

[Wolf359]

I had the same reaction! During startup, I kept looking to the NWS light and nothing. Then I was watching a vid on Youtube and spotted the "levers" on the outside of each display and thought, "well $hit!"