illumination bombs to light carrier deck

[dooom]

we have a mission up for training where we utilize illumination flares to light the Kuz in poor weather landings at night.

 

some squaddies can actually see the painted lines and numbers and even skin textures while others of us can only see the light bulbs. the carrier and plane surfaces are pitch black.

 

Is this a known bug or can anyone piont me towards a solution? a forum search did not yield results.

Edited December 6, 2010 by dooom

[dooom]

This video illustrates what i see.... forget that it is an older version of the game... this player has the same issue as I notice at the end when he is on the deck that everything is pitch black... the plane and carrier surfaces show lighitng at all.

 

This is exactly how things look to me when I have illumination candles over the kuz.

 

Now this second video shows much different lighting effects.. notice how you can make out detail on the aircraft and carrier surfaces... you can even see the spotlight from the plane lighting the deck as he comes in to land.

 

 

^^^ This is what I would like to have?:joystick:

[jib]

Shadow settings in graphics?

[dooom]

tried different settings - no change.

Can i please ask others to comment which of the two videos represent their night carrier deck visibility?

[dooom]

Bump for annoying issue

[dooom]

why is there no help on this??? can i ask a mod to move to Bugs forum????

[dooom]

bump again... please anyone...

[159th_Jojo]

Stop bumping or someone will offer money for your services! :music_whistling:

[dooom]

bah... if by services you imply even a modicum of acknowledgement or a hint of direction for remedy then I'll gladly chaff my thigh in this thread.

 

Over 340 views and nothing.

 

 

Oh... and "bump":(

[Case]

It's unclear to me that the second video uses illumination bombs to light the deck. I think that in that video the graphics settings have been tweaked to make night time look less dark. The fact that the landing lights of the plane light the deck may very well be due to the video card that the user has. I recall that in FC1.12 there were differences in graphics simply by using different video cards. Finally, I also recall that to get lights on the carrier deck you had to start from evening twilight. Starting missions in midnight would not start the lights...

 

Sorry I can't be of more help. I may experiment a bit with it myself.

[Case]

Here are the results from my tests. When using the landing lights my Su-33 does illuminate the deck but only on approach, not when on the deck. With illumination bombs the deck is fully lit. My graphics settings are below.

 

If you get different results this may be due to your graphics settings or your video card. I have an Nvidia GeForce 8800GT.

 

No illumination bombs:

 

On approach:

 

On deck:

 

With illumination bombs:

 

On approach:

 

On deck:

 

Graphics settings:

[dooom]

Case - you are a good man - glad to see someone trying to give me a hand here...

 

So here is my problem: notice on your first approach pic, your landing lights are illuminating the deck with a faint yellow painting of the stern - that does not happen for me - ever.

 

i don't have a problem with light bulds showing - they show - there is just no transfer of the illumination to the carrier deck texture - its like the bulbs are screwed into a completely dark black, non reflective carrier texture that nothing illuminates.

 

in the situation with candle bombs, they illuminate the water and land texture fine but not the carrier.

 

Will whip up a mission and post screenies identical to yours for comparison.

[dooom]

Ok screenies... note i have set my Lomac FC2 graphics settings identical to yours above.

 

First here are my nvidia settings - what card do you have Case?

nvidia by dooomdooom, on Flickr

nvidia 2 by dooomdooom, on Flickr

 

Confirm landing lights on:

enb2010_12_7_6_16_28 by dooomdooom, on Flickr

 

approach no illum bombs:

enb2010_12_7_6_18_8 by dooomdooom, on Flickr

enb2010_12_7_6_18_41 by dooomdooom, on Flickr

 

With illum:

enb2010_12_7_6_55_48 by dooomdooom, on Flickr

 

notice illum bombs landing right on Kuz:

enb2010_12_7_6_52_35 by dooomdooom, on Flickr

 

:helpsmilie::helpsmilie::helpsmilie::helpsmilie::helpsmilie::helpsmilie::helpsmilie:

[dooom]

and finally - my su33 parked right underneath the falling illumination bombs on aft deck of Kuz:

 

enb2010_12_7_7_32_3 by dooomdooom, on Flickr

 

external view - you can't even tell i'm parked under them.

 

enb2010_12_7_7_32_28 by dooomdooom, on Flickr

[Case]

Ok screenies... note i have set my Lomac FC2 graphics settings identical to yours above.

 

First here are my nvidia settings - what card do you have Case?

 

I have an Nvidia GeForce 8800GT. I can't check the settings at the moment (not at home), but I did not change them as far as I recall, so they should still be default.

 

Can you upload the mission so I can try it? I think we should first ensure that there is not some weird bug in missions that are the cause of this.

[dooom]

attached below

[Case]

I treid your mission Dooom and the bombs illuminated the deck like I had before, so it is not the mission, but more likely the video card or other FC2 graphics settings. What card do you have? And if you run a test in your squad, how many pilots have a lit deck?

[dooom]

i have a 9800 gtx 512 card with latest drivers ( i have been swapping drivers like crazy trying to remedy )

 

On night missions with the squad, all can see the admiral properly except myself. i didnt even know i was unique untill they were directing me to cat3 and couldnt figure out how they could even see it... then i started asking questions and realised only I (and one other squaddie) was as blind as a bat at night.

 

 

I actually think this might be more prevalent than ED thinks - most players do not fly at night, let alone land on a carrier so they would never encounter the issue.

 

Here's my vid card info:

perating System: Windows Vista Home Premium, 64-bit (Service Pack 2)

DirectX version: 11.0

GPU processor: GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+

Driver version: 260.99

CUDA Cores: 128

Core clock: 740 MHz

Shader clock: 1836 MHz

Memory clock: 1100 MHz (2200 MHz data rate)

Memory interface: 256-bit

Total available graphics memory: 4095 MB

Dedicated video memory: 512 MB GDDR3

System video memory: 0 MB

Shared system memory: 3583 MB

Video BIOS version: 62.92.5D.00.01

IRQ: 16

Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2

 

Maybe someone will come along and say they have the same card and suggest the proper driver?? I also wonder if any of the lighting settings sleeping in the various .cfg files could be a culprit.

 

Thanks again for helping out any way you can Case. ED really does need folks like you to help out in the community where they cannot find the time.

[dooom]

others do have same issue:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=59589&highlight=illumination

[dooom]

bump

[foxwxl]

If you had tweak the graphic settings, that's the problem.

 

the "LIGHTS" options in the options.lua need to be set to "2"(ALL). But this will eat you FPS,your choice.

[dooom]

could direct x cause this?? I have vista and it automatically updated to direct x 11 - yet my card is a DX10... any probs with that? could that cause the lighting drop off/illumination issue -

 

combatace - if you read this, can you check to see what dx version you are running and what your card is rated for???

[leishusheng]

Bump for annoying issue

[dooom]

If you had tweak the graphic settings, that's the problem.

 

the "LIGHTS" options in the options.lua need to be set to "2"(ALL). But this will eat you FPS,your choice.

 

 

just checked it - it is at "2"

 

the only options.lua I found was in the: LockOn Flaming Cliffs 2/Blackshark/data/scripts/options.lua directory - is there another?

[Presing]

Is this problem you have is when you use the lights at all or just close to aircraft carrier? There is a problem using post-processing mode for better looking graphic, you almost do not see the lights. Check if you have lights on the runway if you not have them probably you have some mode installed who is change something, do not ask what i do not know. :music_whistling: