X-Plane 12 supports full volumetric lighting

[jcomm 5,933]

What about Moonlight?

Terrain should have some Moonlight effects...

[Humpty 751]

14 minutes ago, jcomm said:

What about Moonlight?

Terrain should have some Moonlight effects...

Use your flashlight at night 

[mSparks 2,086]

7 hours ago, Humpty said:

I think what it's doing is turning on some fog lights on the aircraft ? 

All the lighting.

But atm it only works at all in external view, and there are clipping issues - i.e. gets cut off when not looking at it in "just the right way" 

[Humpty 751]

1 hour ago, mSparks said:

All the lighting.

But atm it only works at all in external view, and there are clipping issues - i.e. gets cut off when not looking at it in "just the right way" 

Ah , hope they sort it out.

[Bjoern 1,157]

Do not use DataRefEditor as it's horribly outdated.

This is where the party's at nowadays: https://datareftool.com/

 

 

[Humpty 751]

7 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

Do not use DataRefEditor as it's horribly outdated.

This is where the party's at nowadays: https://datareftool.com/

 

 

I am using the tool. Thanks though.  

[mSparks 2,086]

33 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

Do not use DataRefEditor as it's horribly outdated.

This is where the party's at nowadays: https://datareftool.com/

 

 

Yes and no. 

100% agree DRT is the god of dataref editing, and an awesome tool. However DRE is beautiful in its simplicity and ease of use. Sometimes less is more, once you know you can search from the bottom left....

5 hours ago, jcomm said:

What about Moonlight?

Terrain should have some Moonlight effects...

I have done my fair share of pecking Ben and teams ear on that one, I will be sad if it doesn't make it to GA, so far nothing of note 😪

[jcomm 5,933]

4 minutes ago, mSparks said:

Yes and no. 

100% agree DRT is the god of dataref editing, and an awesome tool. However DRE is beautiful in its simplicity and ease of use. Sometimes less is more, once you know you can search from the bottom left....

I have done my fair share of pecking Ben and teams ear on that one, I will be sad if it doesn't make it to GA, so far nothing of note 😪

Yeah... I used to use XP for night flying... Nowadays MFS is my goto sim for that. It does night lighting very acceptably including moonlight...

[tonywob 4,769]

2 hours ago, Bjoern said:

This is where the party's at nowadays: https://datareftool.com/

 

Ooh, thanks for that. This one is way better 

[Colonel X 1,430]

"Real Terra Haze" vibe...

[blingthinger 649]

On 11/3/2022 at 9:45 AM, Baber20 said:

Looking at this one in particular again. I wonder... a lack of this effect might be a big reason why people look at the sim and complain that the lights are too dim at night. Will be interesting to see if those complaints go down when it is default on and properly tuned.

 

[blingthinger 649]

14 hours ago, blingthinger said:

complain that the lights are too dim at night

Yeah, I gotta retract this statement. Most recent light tuning in b12 has made significant changes to city lights. Not sure what anyone could complain about now.

There are significant jumps in brightness going from cockpit to external, but at the least, when external view, the lights are plenty bright now.

[laurenzo 0]

EDIT: nvm

Edited November 19, 2022 by laurenzo

[Vasgr 4]

OMG! I can't believe I'm finding about this now!
Is there any performance cost? 
My GPU is 3080FTW3

Thanks in advance!

 

[Baber20 1,438]

5 hours ago, Vasgr said:

OMG! I can't believe I'm finding about this now!
Is there any performance cost? 
My GPU is 3080FTW3

Thanks in advance!

 

Yes it absolutely destroys frame rates right now.