50 minutes ago, virtuali said:

A realistic representation of what a pilot would see with his own eye would probably something in between the two.

The X-Plane version looks more like the effect of a video camera compensating for low light so, it's more similar to an aviation video, but not so much to what you, as a pilot, would see in real life. The cross-screen effect surely is not something you see, unless you put such filter on the camera lens. Great for YouTubers, of course.

And, of course, the P3D V5 video uses default lights, while in X-Plane two separate add-ons have been used to improve lights: "Reshade" and "Better Street Lights"

Umberto,

Those look like FTXG 3 lights in the P3D v5 video.

5 minutes ago, JoeFackel said:

And you have only seen YT-Videos so far. Looks like a case of tie at the moment 🙂

This thread is going to be more fun than I thought. Thanks for your useless post.

5 minutes ago, Tierborn said:

  In this video the XP lighting is over the top and not realistic looking.  If reshade allows for turning down the light flare then XP would be more realistic.

As I stated Reshade allows you to customize the glow effect.

14 minutes ago, Branimir said:

You are right, haven't started the night rating yet. But daylight lightning looks fantastic!

I have seen all kinds of night lighting IRL from above and bellow the clouds, in major cities, and tropical destinations and I can assure you that depending on time, weather, season, they will look slightly different.

14 minutes ago, DJJose said:

Umberto,

Those look like FTXG 3 lights in the P3D v5 video.

FTXG3 doesn´t work in p3dv5

14 minutes ago, DJJose said:

Umberto,

Those look like FTXG 3 lights in the P3D v5 video.

No idea what they are, they don't look too different than default. I think most of the work in XP is done by Reshade ( which I think could be used in any sim ), and it's probably doing too much.

You should edit the post to mention that's not how x-plane looks by default. 

(Hi DJ!)

So. . . . .  As a newcomer to P3D (v4), how does one achieve a similar effect in P3D?

The XP lights are not realistic ..,

If you would have that kind of nightlighting in reality you would need 2 pair of sunglasses over eachother at night ...🥳

P3Dv4.5 on my pc’s ( December )

 

 

I have not started working on the V5 shaders yet, so no screenshots yet..

Edited May 5, 20206 yr by GSalden

57 minutes ago, DJJose said:

This thread is going to be more fun than I thought. Thanks for your useless post.

Haha, you devalue someone's opinion because they haven't flown at night yet. But your opinion is better because you have seen a Youtube video... Now that was some useless posting by you.

Take it from someone with a few thousand hours of night flying into and out of both small and major airports... That XP11 video is not accurate at all, nor very realistic. I'm sure it can be with the right addons and presets and what not, but then again, so can P3D. 

Honestly, no flight sim has done night flying any justice yet in my opinion.

38 minutes ago, Paul J said:

(Hi DJ!)

So. . . . .  As a newcomer to P3D (v4), how does one achieve a similar effect in P3D?

Hey Buddy,

How have you been?

ORBX FTX Global 3D light tweaker will change color and sixe of lights. You can use PTA to further tweak. I recommend Gerards PTA presets. Reshade can be installed into P3D, but I prefer PTA. PM me if you need help.

That's not how X-Plane looks.

The video has some hideous Re-shade preset enabled.

25 minutes ago, Prpn said:

Haha, you devalue someone's opinion because they haven't flown at night yet. But your opinion is better because you have seen a Youtube video... Now that was some useless posting by you.

Take it from someone with a few thousand hours of night flying into and out of both small and major airports... That XP11 video is not accurate at all, nor very realistic. I'm sure it can be with the right addons and presets and what not, but then again, so can P3D. 

Honestly, no flight sim has done night flying any justice yet in my opinion.

You devalued me an my opinion. That's why I devalued your post.

If you are happy with your sim, then that's good for you. The purpose of the thread is to help some users experience a better sim. It's not for everyone.

Just now, flightskyc said:

That's not how X-Plane looks.

The video has some hideous Re-shade preset enabled.

There are plenty of XP11 videos with different night lighting configurations. You do not have to choose Reshade.

BTW, this is a sim NOT real life!

2 hours ago, DJJose said:

Has anyone noticed the pauses on approach in the P3D v5 video?

Saddly, I did. Haven't made to move to v5 and this doesn't help. Sigh.