Hi Everybody,

I just got chastised on an x-plane discord channel for posting a real photo of a flight deck, here is the quote "This cockpit isn't X-Plane, I'm 100% sure it is real life. Why did you send it to this channel?" Another member had to point out that you could see the monitor bezels and that it was in fact a simulator. XP12 is looking Great at night, yep I may be a bit bias.

Guess my night lighting edits are done!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U36FdOk17KHIEhITMMZsxxEL8jYJsPay/view?usp=sharing

Edited September 26, 20241 yr by Mike_CFII_MEL

All I can say is ..... WOW! I'm speechless (and a little envious 😁)

8 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Guess my night lighting edits are done!

Wow 

That looks fantastic. 

9 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

I just got chastised on an x-plane discord channel for posting a real photo of a flight deck, here is the quote "This cockpit isn't X-Plane, I'm 100% sure it is real life.

It amazing how quickly some people forget that X Plane is use in more than one way than just displaying on a 2D monitor, like VR or cockpit builds like what you have.  

Where's your latest Mike? Would like to see that. I can probably muster up 2 or 3 FPS at night.

9 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Guess my night lighting edits are done!

12.2 has further improvements tentatively pencilled in, I learned while discussing some bugs yesterday (there is support for those pitch black areas outside having better depth - e.g. to the left of the picture and above the co pilot master caution.warning, but it's broken atm).

Does XP simulate moon light on scenery?   

9 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Guess my night lighting edits are done!

I am really interested! Having an issue when using « extended night lights » together with Autoortho. I still see the limits of the lights delimited by a clear straight line although the terrain is being loaded further away. Not sure if you know why that is?

1 hour ago, strider1 said:

Does XP simulate moon light on scenery?   

Its capable now.

But currently its full time

Dev attention scheduled in 12.2.0 "lighting/dark cockpits" stuff

Edited September 26, 20241 yr by mSparks

2 hours ago, dolph98 said:

Where's your latest Mike? Would like to see that. I can probably muster up 2 or 3 FPS at night.

Hi,

I'm working on daytime lighting then I'll get it uploaded to replace my old set. It will be found here when I replace the old edits. https://fi.x-plane.to/file/388/x-plane-12-night-lighting-edits

2 hours ago, mSparks said:

12.2 has further improvements tentatively pencilled in, I learned while discussing some bugs yesterday (there is support for those pitch black areas outside having better depth - e.g. to the left of the picture and above the co pilot master caution.warning, but it's broken atm).

That sounds great, looking forward to them.

1 hour ago, strider1 said:

Does XP simulate moon light on scenery?   

I don't think so, I'll have a look next time in the deck.

1 hour ago, Franz007 said:

I am really interested! Having an issue when using « extended night lights » together with Autoortho. I still see the limits of the lights delimited by a clear straight line although the terrain is being loaded further away. Not sure if you know why that is?

I stopped using autoautho some time ago, I believe that line you speak of was one of my issues. For me, extended lights seem to blend in better without autoautho setup. That may be your issue as well.

 

1 hour ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

I stopped using autoautho some time ago, I believe that line you speak of was one of my issues. For me, extended lights seem to blend in better without autoautho setup. That may be your issue as well.

 

Thanks. Yes because it seems to work without autoortho....too bad!

10 hours ago, mSparks said:

Its capable now.

But currently its full time

 

It was pitch black when I tried it last night. I am assuming you have an Alpha/Dev build?