I'm getting the feeling this will become standard in X-Plane 12, very soon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xplane/s/PelczoaKwa

Hmm does it not look washed out or some ?

Possibly. But keep in mind, it’s experimental by changing a dataref value. There have been discussions of volumetric lighting, and this is a great example of what can be accomplished by a simple change in a dataref. 

I tried this a while ago from a thread here, it looked very good but was an absolute killer of frames. I hope they find a way to make it more efficient so that it can be something that can be enabled by default.

And some way to Illuminate the clouds at night from city lights bellow ir from the airplane lights...

Edited December 14, 20232 yr by jcomm

There is a dataref value, don't remember though.

Oh yes I remember the dataref is sim/lighting/meltpccomponentsandhaveanabsolutestutterfest=0.  Just change that to =1 and you're good.

Only a ~6 % difference with "sim/private/controls/lights/do_spill_fog" at 1. I've expected worse.

 

 

But I'll leave it off, as those light cones trigger some memories - or trauma, to be more precise - from the old FSX days. 3D modeled cones, animated, skinned mesh planes with bone controllers for the light splashes and some very, very specific material settings. Lots of smoke and mirrors just to have lights actually illuminate something other than the ground. Urgh.

Edited December 14, 20232 yr by Bjoern

23 hours ago, GoranM said:

I'm getting the feeling this will become standard in X-Plane 12, very soon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xplane/s/PelczoaKwa

Whats your def of 'very soon'?

1 hour ago, strider1 said:

Whats your def of 'very soon'?

Likely 12.1.  I'm not really sure, because we don't have an internal build yet.  But it's there, even if by way of a dataref change.