Mirrors show daylight even though the sun has set. 2D and VR

[Fresh]

If you look at the picture, you can see that I am in the F/A-18C. We took off at sunset and I folded the mirrors then. Later on, I noticed in VR, that I could still see the day version in the folded up mirrors. I cycled the mirrors and the view changed to night. Tested this again morning with the track replay and the issue is also in 2D. I'll create a small .miz and upload a .trk later on.

Mirror.trk

Edited December 6, 2023 by Fresh

[razo+r]

That's just how mirrors in the game work. If you "Turn off" the mirrors, they will save the last picture that they reflected. If you toggle it back on, they will start reflecting the correct image again until you turn them off again, then they save again the picture that they reflected at the last moment.

This allows for performance saving when the mirrors are turned off. Many, many versions ago, mirrors were one of the most performance intensive things in DCS. If they would continue to reflect the world in their "turned off" state, that would have been terrible.

Edited December 6, 2023 by razo+r

[Fresh]

Thanks razo+r for your reply, that makes sense. I guess, personally, I would prefer it to just go black, then in VR I wouldn't see a source of light there.. but the workaround is easy enough, just toggle the mirrors. But it is ever so slightly immersion breaking..