New İmproved Lighting Screenshots !

they looks so damn great especially mig and a10

source: https://www.facebook.com/eagle.dynamics/posts/10157746997075341

Wow, especially the one with the Mig, it's clearly visible.

Looking really good! :thumbup:

cant wait for 2.5

much needed, looks very natural

glad its not over done, goodwork

Looks great!

I wonder if any improvements for night time graphics are planned. It looks very flat (for lack of a better word) at the moment, and the stars are strangely huge. Also lights seem kind of dim during the nights.

Wow the reflections and highlights on the MiG are outstanding! That's something DCS has really needed.

So it was mentioned on the FB page that there would be bloom included in this lighting update - Does this mean we will finally see sun glinting off aircraft in the distance? Might solve a lot of the model visibility issues.

Wow looks amazing but I hope this feature doesn't make my pc cry

Lighting looks very good. But the ground shadows of the F-15 looks very weired.

Oooooooohhhh, very nice Indeed

Looks great. Would be nice for them to fix this as well, since they're making DCS pretty: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=154420

Will the Improved Lighting come with the Nevada Update or 2.5?

Will the Improved Lighting come with the Nevada Update or 2.5?

%99 yes

It is definitely looking fantastic, really looking forward to 2.5!

It would be great if those kind of reflections and glare could affect the cockpit view rendering.

The glass and surfaces of the dials and MFDs would look more realistic.

It's great to see those kind of improvements !

As hughlb suggested, it would be wonderful if the sunlight reflection could help spotting an aircraft in the distance (like in real life).

Looks great...I appreciate all the good work going into DCS!!! Just keeps getting better bit by bit.

Get your bodies ready!!! DCS 2.5 coming 2025

jk :P looks AMAZING though

Will this also fix the visibility of HUD? Or more so, will this fix the night/NVGs? By some chance?

Do canopies cast shadows now?

EDIT: see this thread: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=147927

Would be nice to have corrected position and strobe lights for aircrafts. This tiny shining stuff is painful in comparison to all other graphics of dcs. Realistic tanker lights for refueling at night woukd be the ice on the cake.

Well, I cant see any kind of "lighting" improvements in those pictures, I mean, it looks more like a shader kinf of improvement, and a very nice one in the mig 29 pic, now it looks like the real material of a fighter aircraft.

About the "glow" effect, well, Im not sure how good will that be for the graphical aspect of the sim, it makes things to look blurry and unrealistic (not much "glow" in real life). Also, it looks "cheap" and the kind of glow you can add with a reshade, just that.

Also, for some reason, shodows look now waaaay to blurry and low res...if you want to add realistic shadows that are not perfectly sharp (the kind of stuff nvidia PCCS/amd contact hardening shadows do) , you have to do it well, not just by blurring all the shadows contour. This not only looks also unrealistic but worse than what we have now.

Examples:

As you can see, due to the nature of the environement and the kind of lighting sources (just the sun most of the time) shadows use to be quite hard all the time, and even more high in the sky. Only at sun rising/sunset, where light source is very oblique, we would see the effects of "soft shadows" in action.

It would be waaaaay better to add any kind of ambient occlusion for the lighting system, that would REALLY be an improvement. So, making shadows to look bland will just decrease shadow details and precision (look at the A-10 pic where the wing inserts with the planes body, shadow lacks a lot of precision there and thus looks incorrect).

Other than that, I cant see other changes in the pictures at all.

Just my 2 cents.

The shadow system should compensate not just for the lighting angles, as "WatermanPC" says, about the skydome reflections, clouds diffusion and thermal layering, but by the small distances even in ground at noon. Like the F-15 screenshot the vertical stabilizers shadow would get more blurred but everything else being fairly sharp. And when aircraft gets on altitude, shadow to start diminished by enlargement and distance, so you can't see so well a other aircraft by its shadow because diffraction just eliminates the shadow to some point.

Well, all these will surely improve acrobatics flying and such where you look others so close :D

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