November 28, 20205 yr I don't fly much at night so I didn't notice this until now, but none of my aircraft (including default aircraft) have landing lights after I updated to v5.1 with the hotfix. When looking at the landing lights in spot view I see the light on but it does not light up the ground like it should anymore.
November 28, 20205 yr Author I found out it just happens at add on airports. The landing lights work fine at default airports. So I gets it's a problem with the airports.
November 28, 20205 yr With dynamic lights, the aircraft's lights are light effect emitters and the runway surface is a reflector--so the materials used for the airport surfaces will affect the intensity of the lighting. As PBR has come on board and material characteristics related to lighting have rapidly evolved, right now there's wide variance in how well the light illuminates the surfaces on different airports. One solution, if you are flying an acft with multiple banks of lights (e.g. inner/outer, fixed/retractable, wing/nose etc) is to brighten the light emitters way up in the effects files and only use one set of lights or the other if the surface reflects well, and both if it's an older non-PBR dark surface that needs some more dazzle. Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
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