Is the cockpit lighting supposed to look like this?

ED stated in one of their newsletters that they're working on the lighting (including night lighting), and apparently that's an on-going process in Open Beta (and we're here to witness all that in our Open Beta participation).

All part of the normal development cycle - ED updates the core, and 3rd parties have to adjust.

We only have to recognize that this is standard procedure, and need some patience (or move to Stable instead).

Geez, not this again.

I wonder how long will it take this time.

Real sorry that you guys are being put through this, but please understand: it takes an incredible amount of work to fine tweak the lights to what they were on release (and subsequent additions). It is not a small taks at all. And we simply do not have the time or ressources to do this for every patch. We just adjusted it partially for the patch before, and now it has changed again. Hence our only option is to wait out ED. Otoh I will say while it is obnoxious ofc, it is to have overall better lighting in the end, at which point all of this will have been worth the ordeal I hope. Thank you for your very kind patience, guys.

Real sorry that you guys are being put through this, but please understand: it takes an incredible amount of work to fine tweak the lights to what they were on release (and subsequent additions). It is not a small taks at all. And we simply do not have the time or ressources to do this for every patch. We just adjusted it partially for the patch before, and now it has changed again. Hence our only option is to wait out ED. Otoh I will say while it is obnoxious ofc, it is to have overall better lighting in the end, at which point all of this will have been worth the ordeal I hope. Thank you for your very kind patience, guys.

Heatblur has always been A1 since the launch of the Tomcat. I originally posted this asking here if it was a Heatblur issue, because all I fly is the Tomcat. I don't fly ED's modules, so I didn't know their stuff was also effected and it's on them to fix it.

Keep doing what you're doing. Let's all hope ED can start doing some meaningful beta testing to catch this stuff before pushing the patch out.

How's this?

Again, question about photograph.

As the different films react differently to different color lights, especially to primary ones like pure red, blue or green. Red is very easily overexposed couple stops before example blue, so you get very strong illumination out of it.

In reality the cockpit can look very different, and only the person seeing those lights can judge somewhat about the look, as is that photo anywhere near real looking.

Real sorry that you guys are being put through this, but please understand: it takes an incredible amount of work to fine tweak the lights to what they were on release (and subsequent additions). It is not a small taks at all. And we simply do not have the time or ressources to do this for every patch. We just adjusted it partially for the patch before, and now it has changed again. Hence our only option is to wait out ED. Otoh I will say while it is obnoxious ofc, it is to have overall better lighting in the end, at which point all of this will have been worth the ordeal I hope. Thank you for your very kind patience, guys.

We appreciate the hard work. And I agree, it's good to see the core being worked on, just a bit painful going through development.

We appreciate the hard work. And I agree, it's good to see the core being worked on, just a bit painful going through development.

Yes, I totally understand that. In an ideal situation the customer should be completely shielded from such changes until finalized, but unfortunately it seems that it has to go through open beta, for reasons privvy to ED. I hope we'll have it behind us soon.

This is great video of the hardships of tanking the tomcat in real life with the bow wave and staying with it after missing several times. Go to 7:01 in the link to video just before the RIO shows the cockpit lighting. It is very red looking but I am sure he had the brightness turned down.

Start the video several minutes back to see the basket chasing. I hope these types of physics get into DCS at some point soon. tanking the cat has become pretty easy now.:joystick:

You may want to get your eyes checked for early signs of Cataracts. Lights DO NOT look like that in real life unless something's wrong with your eyes.

Thanks for unfriendly quote. As Tomcat pilot I have very good sight and know my office lights very well.

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I can't find any pictures of a real F-14A or F-14B cockpit at night. What's your source for your info?

Sorry mate can’t publish what I have. We in Iran still fly Tomcat in IRIAF and publishing Cockpit detail is not allowed!

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