My aircraft is black at night in P3D v5

[captain420 3,099]

At certain airports like FB's KSFO, Flytampa's Dubai, and a few others. Whenever I set the time to night, my aircraft is like almost completely black with on details at all. This wasn't the case before. It really breaks the immersion when trying to set up a night time flight because of this. Is this an issue on LM's part of with the 3PD? I have tried with the PMDG 747, 737, and FSLabs A320. So it's not that. The cause is coming from either P3D v5 itself or the airport needs to be updated? But I already have Flightbeam's latest KSFO version for P3D v5. I thought that was suppose to be P3D v5 ready already?

This is at T2G VHHH

In the pic below, certain AI aircrafts are showing up fine though.

Edited July 21, 2020 by captain420

[B777ER 2,474]

That right there is a case of dynamic lighting either not turned on in the UI of either P3D or Flighbeam manager. I had this at a few FlyTampa airports in v4.5 and turned out I did not have the FlyTampa Libraries properly installed in the sim. 

Also: http://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=137784

 

Edited July 22, 2020 by B777ER

[micstatic 4,294]

agree with 1st reply.  If that doesn't work you have to make sure that your sceneries are kept updated.  Most of the payware makers had to reissue lighting fx files due to LM changes.  

[captain420 3,099]

What I don't understand is why certain AI planes don't appear black while others look fine? It can't be the scenery then if that's the case. I assume it would be that certain AI models don't have PBR textures? I am using AIG-OCI for my AI btw, and made sure all the models are up to date. Yet from the picture above, you can see some are lit up correctly while others are black. However, all the planes that I fly in appear black. The issue is quite confusing. I have updated my FlyTampa libraries already. OMDB has this issue, but Kai Tak doesn't.

I will check my P3D settings later to see if I have dynamic lights enabled.

Does dynamic reflections need to be on? I believe I have that set to off.

UPDATE: I do have Dynamics light enabled for FB KSFO v2.0.8 and also in P3D. Is this how it's suppose to look at VHHH?

Edited July 22, 2020 by captain420

[captain420 3,099]

Rob, I am using T2G VHHH v2.2. I have dynamic lighting enabled in the sim. Strange.

[captain420 3,099]

https://www.simflight.com/2020/06/01/taxi2gate-hong-kong-vhhh-v2-2-update/

[B777ER 2,474]

Go to Inibuilds website and d/l the dynamic lighting v2 for T2G VHHH. It's much better.

[captain420 3,099]

16 hours ago, B777ER said:

Go to Inibuilds website and d/l the dynamic lighting v2 for T2G VHHH. It's much better.

Will try it out.

What I don't understand is why certain planes are lit up at night while others aren't. Makes no sense to me. It seems that dynamic lights are working at the airport, however some objects don't seem to have updated textures to support it from what I can see in the screenshots I posted.

UPDATE: Installing the dynamic lights from iniBuilds seems to have fixed most of the problems, however there's still some AI aircrafts that are not lit up. I have posted a screenshot below. This could be a problem with some of the models or textures in AIG-OCI.

Edited July 23, 2020 by captain420

[captain420 3,099]

Something is serious wrong. I have tried deleting my shaders folder, and Prepar3D.cfg, made sure that dynamic lighting was both enabled in P3D and for my Airports. This is at ImagineSim WSSS.

[MDFlier 2,029]

There's no nav lights or logo lighting on that plane either. Looks like an effects issue related to the plane. Do the taxi and landing lights light up the ground when you are taxiing?

[captain420 3,099]

That's me in the PMDG 747. yes the nav lights work and all. Just when you view the plane from external view at night, it's not lit up and appears black. I can't fly at night because of this issue and I can't seem to fix it.

[rickgo 64]

If you go to fsdt kordv2 almost all planes are lit, if you go to kmsp flightbeam, none are lit. This is using oci. So it looks like a airport issue.At KMEM fsdt all are dark and also at KPHX FBeam.

It looks like the only airport I have that is truly v5 ready is  kord. It is also my latest purchase. So out of all my airport purchases only one is up to snuff.

Edited July 23, 2020 by rickgo

[micstatic 4,294]

1 hour ago, rickgo said:

If you go to fsdt kordv2 almost all planes are lit, if you go to kmsp flightbeam, none are lit. This is using oci. So it looks like a airport issue.At KMEM fsdt all are dark and also at KPHX FBeam.

It looks like the only airport I have that is truly v5 ready is  kord. It is also my latest purchase. So out of all my airport purchases only one is up to snuff.

all of the flightbeam airports issued updated to fix DL with pbr aircraft.  If you haven't updated it, that's why yours are not working.  FSDT Memphis doesn't have dynamic lighting either.  You need the patch from inibuilds.  ORD does.  

Edited July 23, 2020 by micstatic
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[Kaiii3 1,967]

for v5 PBR and Dynamic Light to work perfectly you need special v5-effect files.

[rickgo 64]

Thanks for the heads up. Dont know how I missed that.