Beacon/Nav Lights Excessive Bloom Orb size

[Cgjunk2]

Hello all,

I don't own the CH-47, but my graphics card is often its victim  in MP servers  (sorry, couldn't resist).  I use VR.   One of the problems I've been having is being subjected to excessively sized and overly-luminous light bloom orbs from the nav, beacon, and position lights.  This happens in severe clear weather, so there is no reason to have any atmospheric light scattering effect.  Also, besides being excessively sized, the relative size and luminosity of the orbs do not change to match increasing  distance from the  light source.  Basically, the light remains the same absolute size and brightness on the screen regardless of distance.  When you are 7 or 8 miles away, the red flashing beacon lights on the CH-47 look like a 2000lb GBU flash-bang grenades going off every second.  The nav lights create a orb/bloom capable of hiding multiple Ch-47s behind it.  

These excessive light orb blooms have been a problem forever.   However, It does not seem to be an impossible problem to solve, because the F18 had huge light orb blooms for years until they fixed them about a year or two ago.   The carrier landing approach lights also had excessive light bloom which made the meatball unreadable. I think they made the IFOLS overlay to address the fact that the light orbs made reading the lights impossible.   Regardless, they fixed the carrier lights for a short time and they became much more realistic, and completely usable.  Unfortunately, they broke the IFOLS lighting again, so it's back to being a completely unreadable bloomy orbs that obscure the landing area once you're initially turning into the groove. 

Now that I think of it...while I say these light-orbs are a problem...I suspect they actually are more of a rendering decision instead of an actual technical problem that requires debugging.  I recall that these light-orbs were actually described and defended as "correct as is" on the F18 for years before they actually fixed them, but I'm not sure if the developers were seeing what I was seeing through VR.   In any case, the current orbs are as bad as they ever were on the F18 back in the old days.