Night Lighting and Night sky

[F737MAX 6,040]

4 hours ago, Paul K said:

I agree the stars need looking at, but the night environment in MSFS is vastly superior to FSX and P3D.

 

3 hours ago, Noel said:

[...]the dawn/dusk period stars look poorly defined, way too bright as well.

Agree. Apart from the laughably bad resolution of the stars and the age-old issue of stars being too bright during dawn and dusk (same in FSX & P3D), I generally find MSFS' night environment to be good.

In P3D, we had Orbx have a go at street lighting. However, lights would pop-up in blocks when approaching them. There was also a very expensive alternative streetlight solution with another developer who no longer is allowed to be named here. Performance would tank if you tried to realistically create a city scene at night.

In MSFS, city lights stretch out in all directions (see quoted pic above) with no noticeable performance loss, light pollution is brilliantly shown whenever there's cloud cover and some apartment block windows even have flickering blue light to replicate a TV being watched in a room. The only real criticisms are too much street lighting in smaller conurbations and street lighting turning into a mass yellow blob when the LOD decreases.

I'm much, much happier with the how MSFS displays the ground at night than any previous sim.

[KERNEL32 528]

As one mentioned earlier, the ability to see every star in the universe from the ground is very unrealistic; I suppose at very high flight levels with very cold clear skies one could see many more stars, but probably not even what we can see now from the ground in MSFS. MSFS needs a huge "atmosphere" (air quality and light pollution) rework.

[spearmint_flyer 581]

I upgraded to an Odyssey ARK from a 49-inch LG CX TV. While I am enjoying the better refresh rate, the appearance of the blobs of light as stars have become highly apparent. I’m unsure why, but it’s pretty evident that this image has been stretched. It used to be an extraordinary night sky to look at. I am going to continue playing with some settings to see what I can do to remediate it. 

[GSalden 4,737]

22 minutes ago, spearmint_flyer said:

I upgraded to an Odyssey ARK from a 49-inch LG CX TV. While I am enjoying the better refresh rate, the appearance of the blobs of light as stars have become highly apparent. I’m unsure why, but it’s pretty evident that this image has been stretched. It used to be an extraordinary night sky to look at. I am going to continue playing with some settings to see what I can do to remediate it. 

Common man. Bumping up a 10 months old thread… ? 😱

[spearmint_flyer 581]

25 minutes ago, GSalden said:

Common man. Bumping up a 10 months old thread… ? 😱

Well yeah! I don’t understand these forums sometimes. 
You start a new thread and some will say “use search before you post. You may find an answer.” 

Now it’s why are you bumping and old thread that relates to what I am inquiring.