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AI aircraft lights ?

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Since one of the recent updates, remote ai a/c lights appear as oversized white rectangles. Do you see this too? If yes, is there a setting or a mod which would correct this.?

Edited by Nemo

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This has always been an issue for me since the release of MSFS. The NAV lights of AI planes look horrible and highly unrealistic. They look like oversized square pixels of red and green from a distance. This totally ruins the immersion of flying during night/dusk/dawn hours. This problem should be way on top of the priority list. Even FSX/P3D/XP had better aircraft lights.

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They were too big, and as of today i no longer see lights at all. Heck, i can’t even see the ai planes.

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This is how they look like in MSFS, absolutely terrible!

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In FSX/P3D they look better this is with A2A's Shockwave 3D Redux lights addon. I'm sure if Asobo took the time to improve on this, it can look much better.

Here's how they look in X-Plane. The individual light orbs size look just right in XP, and I think out of all the flight sims, these are the ones closest to what aircraft lights should look like.

 

Edited by captain420

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44 minutes ago, captain420 said:

This is how they look like in MSFS, absolutely terrible!

That's how they look if you are in 4k. In 1080p they look ok (when I can see them, now I can only see lights in some GA aircraft).

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3 minutes ago, Alvega said:

That's how they look if you are in 4k.

Overall night lighting looks worse as you increase your display's resolution. Which is why I felt they didn't do enough testing to see how the lights would look on resolutions other than 1080p.

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The ai lights are not seen at all for me.  Honestly I find it absurd that this is even a thing.  Too much holiday for these people and not enough competent work.

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22 minutes ago, Brandon01110 said:

The ai lights are not seen at all for me.  Honestly I find it absurd that this is even a thing.  Too much holiday for these people and not enough competent work.

plus there is no real air traffic

are the the IA navlights fixed after SU6? i mean , they are on again?

Edited by motishow

7 hours ago, motishow said:

are the the IA navlights fixed after SU6? i mean , they are on again?

I see the navigation lights and beacons, but I don't see the strobes.  On the ground or approach I don't see landing lights and/or taxi lights.  I got the 'fix mod' for a.i. lights but this was not successful as the taxi/landing lights are 180 degrees off (they point backward).  So, that is where I am at.

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This one is kind of funny. I had AI traffic turned on, could see the planes in the vr map, but never actually saw any planes visually. Then i turn off traffic and now i see traffic lights through the clouds, but the vr map shows nothing. 

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Just came across this video, has anyone given this a try yet?

 

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2 hours ago, captain420 said:

Just came across this video, has anyone given this a try yet?

 

Did it work? 

Not really sure. The lights did change a bit, but very minor differences. This is just a temporary solution until Asobo fixes this. The difference for me isn't quite as noticeable as in that video. Although the individual light bulbs do seem smaller, but still not small enough and they do not look as nice as X-Plane's default.

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