I thought this is something that XP12 resolved? It really is nasty

 

 

Edited February 24, 20233 yr by UKflyer

6 hours ago, UKflyer said:

I thought this is something that XP12 resolved? It really is nasty

But is it actually unrealistic?

 

Safe to say, apart from some very minor issues, the lighting is spot on in XP12.  It uses photometric lighting, so you'd be hard pressed to find any issues.

13 hours ago, UKflyer said:

I thought this is something that XP12 resolved? It really is nasty

 

 

And the same old sun shining through the cockpit door. They should have fixed that.

1 hour ago, petrony said:

And the same old sun shining through the cockpit door. They should have fixed that.

ah yes that seems to be it, the sun coming through the cockpit when it shouldn't!

8 hours ago, Murmur said:

But is it actually unrealistic?

 

Sorry, it's nothing like that photo! Wouldn't say sun glare from the front and some panel lighting is the same thing. Totally the wrong position of the sun which was behind the aircraft. In all my days of flying i've never seen it red like that!

Edited February 25, 20233 yr by UKflyer

4 hours ago, petrony said:

They should have fixed that.

So generally they did, but maybe they missed the "sun bit".

18 hours ago, UKflyer said:

XP12 resolved?

Looks like maybe they missed an edge case? do you have a recreate (face this way at this time of day at this location in this default aircraft and the sun is reflected in the display where it should be obscured by..)

Edited February 25, 20233 yr by mSparks

19 minutes ago, mSparks said:

So generally they did, but maybe they missed the "sun bit".

Looks like maybe they missed an edge case? do you have a recreate (face this way at this time of day at this location in this default aircraft and the sun is reflected in the display where it should be obscured by..)

gooday mSparks, my memory not that great but from the screenshot i was heading east 091 degrees to LASIS (300nm or so) 1714z yesterday 👍

not really a biggy tbh but hadn't seen it like this before, it could be a Zibo thing

Edited February 25, 20233 yr by UKflyer

Sunlight is actually blocked by cockpit, infact there are shadows inside the cockpit.

I think there are two minor issues:

1) Glare on glass instruments seem not to be blocked by cockpit shadowing;

2) in XP there's a brief moment (a few minutes) before sunset during which the ambient light becomes a strong reddish color, and hence shadowed parts of the cockpit look a bright red as well, maybe a bit too much.

There it is looking quite realistic compared to RL:

RL:

After a while and for a few minutes, the reddish ambient light color seems a bit exaggerated:

31 minutes ago, Murmur said:

Sunlight is actually blocked by cockpit, infact there are shadows inside the cockpit.

nice thanks Murmur, the shadowing does make a difference. In my pic there doesn't appear to be much of a shadow so probably exaggerates the non-shadow area which is red in tone.

Edited February 25, 20233 yr by UKflyer

What was the sun posiition in the initial pic? If it wasn't perfectly west or otherwise blocked by any cockpit structure, it could have been more of a "reality is unrealistic" thing than a bug.