KDFW Terminals Totally Dark at Night

[MT70 1]

Hello

Does anyone else has this issue with the KDFW scenery, the terminals and ramps appears totally dark at night. I have not seen this issue discussed in any forum, so was curious to find out. Created a Zendesk ticket, but was closed saying "Solved" with no success. Any help will be much appreciated. 

Thanks.

 

Edited January 22, 2021 by MT70

[okupton 308]

Saw the exact same thing tonight when I flew into dfw. 

[tyrodes 29]

This is true for a lot of stock airports and it has not been solved (depending on how you define solved I guess).  I'm not sure why more people don't complain about this.  Maybe too many other issues.

[superspud 450]

Adding light is one of the easiest things anyone can do with the developer kit. It only takes a few minutes. Not ideal but someone will probably do a better job for themselves anyway. 

If you want it done let me know and I'll whip something up and link to it on here. 

 

[duckbilled 310]

4 minutes ago, tyrodes said:

This is true for a lot of stock airports and it has not been solved (depending on how you define solved I guess).  I'm not sure why more people don't complain about this.  Maybe too many other issues.

I do recall starting a flight and I thought the airport was very dark with no dynamic lighting. I assumed that was just the way ity was supposed to be.

Perhaps no one is noticing it, because a lot of people fly during the day due to the incredible scenery. Night lighting is still a little off, but I really like starting flights just before dawn.

[MT70 1]

3 hours ago, superspud said:

Adding light is one of the easiest things anyone can do with the developer kit. It only takes a few minutes. Not ideal but someone will probably do a better job for themselves anyway. 

If you want it done let me know and I'll whip something up and link to it on here. 

 

Yes surely, that will be a good fix for now until they fix the night lighting issue, appreciate it, thanks. 

[tyrodes 29]

3 hours ago, duckbilled said:

Perhaps no one is noticing it, because a lot of people fly during the day due to the incredible scenery. Night lighting is still a little off, but I really like starting flights just before dawn.

You are probably correct.  Also, maybe people spawn and end their flights on the runway, which in my opinion looks pretty good for most stock airports.  Once you taxi (taxi light chaos) to aprons (dark) the immersion is lost for me.

[lehbird 48]

As was said, I think this is true at most airports. It is one of the areas where I feel XP11 is lightyears ahead.....their airport lighting is awesome in my opinion. 

[superspud 450]

There we go - https://www.mediafire.com/file/4ghqvik57u7rzhi/KFDW.zip/file

 

Also included are the project files if you want to do more of it yourself. I no doubt skimped here and there. 

Edited January 22, 2021 by superspud

[tyrodes 29]

1 minute ago, superspud said:

There we go - https://www.mediafire.com/file/4ghqvik57u7rzhi/KFDW.zip/file

 

Also included are the project files if you want to do more of it yourself. I no doubt skimped here and there. 

That looks nice.  Did you just put in floating light orbs or poles with lights?

[superspud 450]

Bit of both. Mainly lights on the parking and floating elsewhere. I didn't add extra illumination to the terminals.

[MT70 1]

3 minutes ago, superspud said:

Bit of both. Mainly lights on the parking and floating elsewhere. I didn't add extra illumination to the terminals.

Thank you so much, now it looks more like a major airport and not a ghost airport. 👌

[superspud 450]

My pleasure.

Verrry strange that they didn't do this. If you were going to light anywhere it would be where the places turn up at least. 

Edited January 22, 2021 by superspud

[captaingoldfish 19]

On 1/22/2021 at 11:24 AM, superspud said:

There we go - https://www.mediafire.com/file/4ghqvik57u7rzhi/KFDW.zip/file

 

Also included are the project files if you want to do more of it yourself. I no doubt skimped here and there. 

Thank you so much for doing this. Maybe one of these days I'll learn how to edit lights too. There are plenty of airports that can use a little love. Thanks again!

[superspud 450]

It's on flightsim.to with the terminals etc too done now - https://flightsim.to/file/7077/kdfw-dallas-fort-worth-international-airport-night-lighting-fix

I probably still missed a fair bit but it's better. 

Light editing is one of the easiest things to do and weirdly satisfying as well. Well worth playing with. 

And the mediafire link to the project files and mod has been updated with the extra bits done. 

Edited January 30, 2021 by superspud