F18 Lights are bright for VR.

[Spectrum48k]

Looking through VR, once an F18 is more than 50 meters away with lights on it looks like something from close encounters of the third kind.  Is there a way I can fix this?  Lights are way too bright.

[Tholozor]

Already reported: 

 

[Ala12Rv-Tundra]

we call that effect "the xmas tree"

[twistking]

well at least the lights are visible for more than a mile and therefore actually work for their intended usecase: make the aircraft be seen at night.
hornet's lights are visible (and well visible) for 10nm which is still not enough, but at least usable (i think 20nm -25nm would be great!).

other aircraft's lights are visible for only about 1nm and get extremely dim after only some hundred feet... making them unusable for anything but close formation flying.

i do agree however that the hornet's lights don't look particularly good aesthetically.

i have the hope that the hornet is kind of a testbed for better aircraft lights, because it obviously uses a different technique for the lights at distance. far from perfect, but hopefully just a first step.

as a workaround you can tell your wingman to only use formation lights and beacon light and/or put nav lights on very dim only.

[Razor18]

On 8/7/2022 at 8:34 AM, Ala12Rv-Tundra said:

we call that effect "the xmas tree"

It is in fact an official brevity command

Christmas tree

to turn on all exterior lighting.