No stars in the night sky in XP11

[RuiMC 9]

Hi there, XP11 beta 3 here.

The night sky is way darker than XP10, and I can see no stars at all. Are you also experiencing the same?

Safe landings!

[hjsmuc 393]

Yes, moon and stars are AWOL in all betas so far. Turn off HDR and they show up. The very least priority for LR, unfortunately for the aesthetically inclined customer. 

[RuiMC 9]

Got it, thanks.

I really hope LR will address that with HDR on. Night start navigation is still old school flying as well.

 

Here some illustrative shots.

 

XP10.51:

 

 

XP11 beta 3 (HDR on):

 

 

XP11 beta 3 (HDR off):

[bk2000 0]

X Plane final release still has no stars in the night sky.

[Airfighter 150]

Are you sure?

[exodus1977 37]

I wonder if a simple lua script could be written to bump the intensity of the stars/moon? Is there a dataref for it?

[Jimm 437]

At first, I found it odd that people were reporting that the sun, moon and stars weren't present, so I hearkened back to my recent flights, with HDR on, and I indeed had a bright sun, bright moon and stars (even planets, or maybe just really bright stars).

[Murmur 3,941]

1 hour ago, exodus1977 said:

I wonder if a simple lua script could be written to bump the intensity of the stars/moon? Is there a dataref for it?

Yes, there are three datarefs (art controls) you can play with:

stars/gain_hdr

moon/gain_hdr

moon/glow_hdr