lights at nightime/brightness and visabilty

Since a few updates ago in 2.2 and currently in 2.5, night time and lights are too dark/invisable.

Currently at night taxi way lights that are about 10 feet away are barely visable. Runway lights, City lights and street lights are practically non existant. looking out over the map at night even when directly over cities presents the player with a pitch black sea of nothingness. At about 1000 agl and all the way zoomed in while over a city presents barely visable lights when realistically lights are visable at night for miles, even out to the horizon.

below is a image of me flying facing novrossysk about 10 miles away vs a picture from the real world.

This issue is persistant across all seasons dates an weather conditions and after experimenting with settings I have found no way to correct it. Other players I have flown with can corraberate the issue.

is there any word on why this issue exists/ whats causing it and is there a fix coming?

Thanks,

Requiem

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It has been already reported in another thread, but tbh, I can't find it right now... it's a problem that happens when Deferred shading is On. ED has to check the lighting system again... I am going to link you the thread soon :thumbup:

There you go https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=200889

There you go https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=200889

Your link appears broken.

But to the thread point. Night time lighting is absolutely terrible on every level. Someone at ED needs to look at other examples achieved by other devs in this genre of how to do night lighting correctly and effectively and take some inspiration from them..or maybe just call them up and ask how to do it like they do. City/ground lights at night are non-existent from a handful of miles out. Anyone who has ever flown at night or seen videos of night flights, or enjoys other titles in this genre knows that DCS just does not even appear to have focused any efforts into this aspect of their engine yet.

It desperately needs to be worked on and a major overhaul and perhaps new direction in how they are implementing it taken to improve it. It would really open the sim environment a lot more. I currently never fly at night due to it's major shortcomings that have existed for a very long time. With the cities that will be in DCS: Persian Gulf, it is almost criminal to not have them look spectacular at night. Vegas should look amazing but sadly it doesn't.

Dithering being added to remove the banding would be nice too...just sayin.

Agreed. Night flying is very rewarding when the environment is up to par. Hope this gets prioritzed soon as well.

Deferred shading just flat out ruins night time flying, flood lights dont work in some aircraft while it is on, same with illumination rockets.

here is some pics I took in NTTR flying towards vegas at 2300 hours from the NE, 1st is 19miles from vegas center, if you look closely you can just see nellis runway lights at 11oclock, 2nd is same scenario with deferred shading turned off

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=200889

Sorry for the broken link:thumbup::music_whistling: