reported Supercarrier landing lights

[Aphrodite51503]

The super Carrier landing lights are way too dim

Wecan't see them 

 

I know you endeavor to try and make the game as realistic as possible and probably for real pilot out at sea they can't see them either 

But almost none of us are real carrier pilots 

We need brighter lighting so we can see the flight deck 

So I don't know maybe you could just put like a dimmer switch on the control panel we can make the lights as bright as we want 

Speaking of that at the Airboss station 

I have noticed that when you click off on Airboss 

We can't do anything else like pilot the aircraft 

So I would like you to just make a click for the air boss but it doesn't stop us from doing other things 

Because they're a bus station really isn't that big of a deal 

Can't do anything except for control heading and turn on lights 

So maybe just the passing thing that you can just click into the airboss turn on the lights and turn the ship and then go back to piloting the aircraft

Being there boss doesn't need to be a whole formal thing cuz there's nothing to do there 

 

Just a couple thought to make the game better

Edited October 8, 2024 by Aphrodite51503

[Jacobb141]

Agreed, the lights are basically invisible, making getting lined up in the last mile near impossible on an overcast night.

[Aphrodite51503]

23 hours ago, MAXsenna said:

Search/look for lights fix in the mod forum.

Sent from my SM-A536B using Tapatalk
 

 

On 10/11/2024 at 10:32 PM, Jacobb141 said:

Agreed, the lights are basically invisible, making getting lined up in the last mile near impossible on an overcast night.

Somebody notified me up a fix for this 

If you go into the downloads of the user files 

Change your category to search to  "other" 

 Artus light fix will fix this problem

 

Unfortunately you will need to change it in the game files itself

I don't know if you're crazy about that

but I did and it worked out okay

You will be able to do night traps

And foul weather

which is my personal favorite

[MAXsenna]

Here's the forum link. 

And here's the User Files link. There's a pretty awesome sky light fix too, where you can easily spot constellations. 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3340903/

[Aphrodite51503]

I tweaked mine to 20 x 

And I tweaked the luminance to 7.5 and the size to 2.5 seems to work good that way

[Aphrodite51503]

Why you know me I'm a little like cougar on top gun when he thought he was going to crash their plane when he landed 

So I need all the help I can get 

I made the lights brighter so I can see them  further

[draconus]

On 10/20/2024 at 5:28 AM, Aphrodite51503 said:

So I need all the help I can get 

Case III is not visual approach so you better focus on your avionics.

PS. Of course the lighting should be fixed.

Edited October 24, 2024 by draconus

[Aphrodite51503]

I don't really use the game for flying that much 

 

Seems very tedious I don't care for it that much 

 

I use it more for ship warfare and operations because that's what I did in the Navy

[BIGNEWY]

Hi all, 

we have lights improvements on our to do list, hopefully in the future you will see improvement 

thank you 

[Kraken_ZA]

On 11/29/2024 at 10:22 AM, BIGNEWY said:

Hi all, 

we have lights improvements on our to do list, hopefully in the future you will see improvement 

thank you 

Does this include the Kutznetsov(2017)?

[Micr0]

That arttu mod works pretty darn well! Thanks for sharing!

[Nealius]

It seems the IFLOLS is a bit busted as well, at least on the Washington. The ball itself is visible from a mile out, but the datum line doesn't appear until you're at the ramp. 

[Hippo]

On 10/8/2024 at 5:43 PM, Aphrodite51503 said:

The super Carrier landing lights are way too dim

Entirely agree.  I have a night carrier landing mission I made years ago when fog worked properly, it was great: just before the ball call the carrier lights would appear out of the fog beautifully, it all worked wonderfully.

Fast forward to today.  Supposedly we have fog again, so I load up the mission... to find that the lights on the carrier can hardly be seen even on a clear night.  Is this a recent change?  I don't remember it ever being this bad.

Too often DCS is just depressing, improve one thing, and something else FAQs up...

Edited December 4, 2024 by Hippo

[f14billy]

The FLOLS is turned off in the model in both the Carrier and Supercarrier models after the latest update. The overlay works just fine. To reproduce just load a mission for carrier launch, hit F2 and position the camera to where the FLOLS is visible. In the Russian Carrier it turns on as expected. Here are a few screenshots:

Supercarrier

Carrier

Russian Carrier

Edited December 5, 2024 by f14billy

[Hippo]

This is what I can see at 0.8 (I'm asked to call the ball at this point) and 0.3.  See also link.  I am running at 4k on a 43 inch monitor.

 

Edited December 5, 2024 by Hippo

[3000 Black Jets of Allah]

Can confirm, it seems that the lights are backwards because you can see them from the front of the boat

[3000 Black Jets of Allah]

The lights are now backwards after the patch, they point towards the front of the boat and are invisible from the back.

[Mapi]

Wow

 

[Hippo]

19 minutes ago, 3000 Black Jets of Allah said:

The lights are now backwards after the patch, they point towards the front of the boat and are invisible from the back.

Thank you.  So hopefully just a simple recently introduced bug that can be fixed quickly?  I hadn't flown these carrier night missions for some time and was just trying out the new update features.

Edited December 5, 2024 by Hippo

[3000 Black Jets of Allah]

26 minutes ago, Hippo said:

Thank you.  So hopefully just a simple recently introduced bug that can be fixed quickly?  I hadn't flown these carrier night missions for some time and was just trying out the new update features.

You'd hope it'd be a quick fix, but with ED it could months/years

[BIGNEWY]

we will check this out, thank you 

 

[BIGNEWY]

Can you give me a short track replay showing this happen and a dcs log from the session, when I check mine the lights are the correct way

 

[Hippo]

49 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

Can you give me a short track replay showing this happen and a dcs log from the session, when I check mine the lights are the correct way

 

I just checked and I'm not seeing the "backwards" lights either, i.e. I can definitely see the iflols datum green lights from the stern.  However, I don't see the ball yellow light (from either side), and unless I'm virtually over the carrier all the lights are way too dim or just not visible as I stated earlier.  Surely all the lights should be clearly visible when asked to call the ball?  They're not.  Will try to provide a track later when I have more time.  I'm using the Stennis.

Thanks for your time and patience. 

Edited December 5, 2024 by Hippo

[maxTRX]

14 hours ago, Hippo said:

...Too often DCS is just depressing, improve one thing, and something else FAQs up...

Now, that is a FAC  

I guess all internal test pilots stayed in the ready room instead of getting up to the roof and taking a spin.

[Brother_Leb]

Confirming that this has been my experience since yesterday's patch as well. I've added a few trackfiles for reference (links to OneDrive b/c files too large for upload).

Also note, the ship is launching flares when client A/C are on final about to cross the fantail. Everyone in our squadron thought we were trolling them.  "Nope, not us guys!"

TSTA_1.4.3_CASE_I-20241204-170609.trk
TSTA_1.4.3_CASE_I-20241204-205130.trk

"Hornet Clara"