reported earlier Navigation light changes rolled back?

[SMH]

Were the recent improvements/adjustments to the navigation lights rolled back? I saw a Hornet's nav lights appear to go off as it flew away the other day but I could have sworn that was fixed several updates ago.

[razo+r]

It was never fixed as far as I can tell

[BIGNEWY]

On 9/15/2022 at 5:48 AM, SMH said:

Were the recent improvements/adjustments to the navigation lights rolled back? I saw a Hornet's nav lights appear to go off as it flew away the other day but I could have sworn that was fixed several updates ago.

No recent changes I am aware of

[SMH]

On 9/15/2022 at 1:27 AM, razo+r said:

It was never fixed as far as I can tell

It was perfect right after they announced the fix. Nav lights were clear and didn't suddenly disappear at a distance where you should still see them. Then it seemed to go back to the way it was before in some update soon after that. (I'm not sure if it ever made it to the Stable version so maybe that's why you never saw it?)

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/changelog/openbeta/2.7.15.25026/ 
 

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• Light effects. increased lifetime of the lights, improved the fadeout of lights and dying of lights, changed lights radius, changed speed of growing.

I see it's included in the Stable changelog too.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/changelog/stable/2.7.16.28157/

Edited September 20, 2022 by SMH

[Tholozor]

That's not a Hornet-specific fix, that's for world lights.

[razo+r]

8 hours ago, SMH said:

It was perfect right after they announced the fix. Nav lights were clear and didn't suddenly disappear at a distance where you should still see them. Then it seemed to go back to the way it was before in some update soon after that. (I'm not sure if it ever made it to the Stable version so maybe that's why you never saw it?)

 

 

I am on OB, and it has yet to be fixed. The fix you sent was not for the Hornet. 

[SMH]

6 hours ago, razo+r said:

I am on OB, and it has yet to be fixed. The fix you sent was not for the Hornet. 

It sure seemed to be. I remember being impressed about it when it happened (and found someone's old comments about it in a Discord group, that's how I figured out which update it happened in). I was under the impression it was an across the board lighting fix, not just the Hornet, but I was definitely admiring Hornets when I noticed it. Then the other day I saw a Hornet's nav lights going off with camera distance (and still relatively close range) like they used to.

Here's some shots from that thread.

[SMH]

I'm 100% sure the nav light distance/LOD issues are still there now as I keep seeing them in various aircraft, particularly the Hornet. What I can't be quite as sure of is my memory of them being fixed or at least greatly improved in 2.7.15.25026, and it would be too difficult for me to roll back to that version to test it (almost out of drive space, barely got it installed as-is).

Is the person who did that work available to ask whether they still see it included in the project and/or still see it behaving the way they feel it should? Like, is there an "owner" of this feature we could ask? Do you have internal testers who can perhaps more easily roll back to 2.7.15.25026 and take a look?

Thanks.

[BIGNEWY]

We do have reports open for improving the external lights, the team will take a look thank you