twistking Posted February 25 Posted February 25 (edited) There are some problems with the LUU-2. Brightness and colour temperature The ingame flare is too bright. It's difficult to objectively say without an ingame light metre, but the real thing should illuminate a 500 metre circle at 5 lux. The ingame flare is orders of magnitudes brighter for sure. This would not be a huge issue, but since the flare does not create terrain shadows and is not affected by clouds (both very reasonable performance trade-offs), it can appear even brighter. With more realistic brightness values, the performance trade-offs wouldn't be that noticeable. Colour temperature is wrong. Ingame it burns with a slight green tint, while it should burn with near white with perhaps slightly warm tint. It's a magnesium/sodium-nitrate mix, that should definitely not produce a flame with green tint. Missing cockpit illumination The flare correctly illuminates the exterior of aircraft flying near it, which looks very cool. However the cockpit of aircraft is not affected, which spoils the otherwise cool effect. Since cockpits can be illuminated by external dynamic lights, i assume this is just a config error, that can be easily corrected (Tested with F-5 remaster module). Having cockpits illuminated by flares will probably make the extreme brightness of the flares even more noticeable (especially for people who don't run secondary shadows), so fixing the exaggerated brightness is paramount... Edited February 25 by twistking 2 My improved* wishlist after a decade with DCS *now with 17% more wishes compared to the original
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