Night Lighting in Los_Angeles_San_Diego UltraRes

[Jim Young 2,356]

Just downloaded and installed the latest MSE V2 Los Angeles and San Diego Ultra Res and there's night lighting in the LAX area at least. The regular MegaScenery MSE V2 scenery released for California did not have very good night lighting and, in fact, it was blocky and really ugly. Here's a couple pictures to show the night lighting near Los Angeles:

 

EDIT:  this is with MegaSceneryX SoCal also enabled and sitting under the Los Angeles/San Diego entry in the Scenery Library.

 

 

 

Best regards,

[dogtrack 18]

Guess you will need to turn it off if you use Night Environment California, I'm thinking.

[Manny 1,293]

Thanks for that Jim.. I was not going to get it since I didn't want to lose the night lighting.. Yes I am still using the old MS with autogens and night lighting.

 

I am thinking of getting this and then duplicating the autogens from the old version and placing this scenery on top of the So cal (MS).

 

Hmm.. 

[Jim Young 2,356]

I have MegaSceneryX SoCal but did not activate it. I had been using MSE V2 California w/SoCal activated above MSEV2 so that I could get rid of the blocky night lighting around LA. It looks like I can get rid of MegaSceneryX SoCal completely now as I don't ever use Autogen with photoscenery.

 

Best regards,

[Clutch Cargo 384]

Are you sure you don't have something bleeding through, Jim?  My new MSE ultra res shows no night lighting on its own.  I do get the typical bleed through of the defult at distances.

[Jim Young 2,356]

I just looked at my Scenery.cfg and I DO have SoCal enabled BELOW this scenery. I apologize if that is what caused the night lighting to show.

 

Best regards,

[Jim Young 2,356]

I just checked again and it is definitely the MegaSceneryX SoCal that is bleeding through.

 

Best regards,

[Clutch Cargo 384]

I still prefer the original MSE for night lighting.  I think that is the one you refer to as "blocky textures"?  I did pick up that new night lighting for California to see how it looks.  While ok, I get instant micro stutters when I use them.  The second I disable back to smoooth sailing.  If at the lowest setting.  Can't use them at highest as they bring my sim doen to single-digits.  Unflyable.   Not sure what others are seeing for this type of night lighting.

 

Now to be fair, I think they are actually just for FSX as I don't recall any mention they are P3D compatible but as I said I just wanted to give them a go.  For now it's the new MSE HD LA/SD for daytime and the original MSE for nighttime.  A good working combo.

[Pugilist2 878]

Hopefully the creator of Mega Scenery Earth 2.0 will include the night textures as he has been promising. Am waiting for Ultra Resolution Las Vegas to be released.