Anyone know how to remove the feature of sunglare reflection on aircraft, or severly reduce its effect in FSX? Aircraft in the air, its like having a mico ball of sun flying towards you. It's not until it gets really close up, you are able to identify what type of aircraft it is.It did not used to be like this, but to be honest I can't remember when it appeared because of so many upgrades to either FSX or my OS. Currently Win7 (64 bit) with FSX (SP2). Any help would be appreciated, thanks.Steve

If it's lens flare or bloom both can be disabled from the options display settings

If it's lens flare or bloom both can be disabled from the options display settings

Both of these are disabled. I've just quickly viewed aircraft taxiing onto the runway. All is ok until they reach the threshold and are turning to line up for take off, and hey presto like a flick of a switch a sun glow appears approx half way down the fuselarge--from a distance looks like its just caught fire.Steve

Ooooh, that's the annoying landing lights.... it's a bug I guess, related to the halo.bmp file used for the effect. The effect radius gets larger as you are farther away...

Ooooh, that's the annoying landing lights.... it's a bug I guess, related to the halo.bmp file used for the effect. The effect radius gets larger as you are farther away...

Interesting you mentioning halo.bmp. I now remember that converting to Triple head2go and using Gary Summons Xtreme series of airports (UK) all my lights including runway,taxiways etc were like large balloons. The fix was a combination of downloading the Avsim aht5.zip file which contained altrenative halo.bmp textures and scale of lights, and then adjusting the scalers for runway lights in FSX's config. All this was done when I had Vista. I guess I'll play around with these values--thanks for pointing me in the right direction.Steve

Interesting you mentioning halo.bmp. I now remember that converting to Triple head2go and using Gary Summons Xtreme series of airports (UK) all my lights including runway,taxiways etc were like large balloons. The fix was a combination of downloading the Avsim aht5.zip file which contained altrenative halo.bmp textures and scale of lights, and then adjusting the scalers for runway lights in FSX's config. All this was done when I had Vista. I guess I'll play around with these values--thanks for pointing me in the right direction.Steve

That's most likely the problem. I think Nick N over at the simforums created a specific .bmp for TH2G users... might want to check it out.

That's most likely the problem. I think Nick N over at the simforums created a specific .bmp for TH2G users... might want to check it out.

Ok, I'll check that out. I've noticed you are interested in ATC. I've tried to get VOXATC to work. Put quite frankly I'm not a fan--lots of pending collisions on the ground with other planes, plus taking off with landing traffic heading straight for you! Also only traffic at departure & arrival airports. The occational air traffic in the air, but not realistic if you fly over Heathrow to see nothing! There are other issues. I've been looking at IYP, which I believe includes Radar Contact & Superatc. Although not a direct replacement for VOXATC--more inline with co-pilots, would you recommend it & if not, do you know of others I could have a look at?Steve