Thanks @Mike_CFII_MEL. Your Edits v5.0 is a keeper.

My night flights will be so much better once they fix that strange brightness bubble that precedes me. The brightness below is significantly brighter than the lights afar, not blended well IMO. Or I have not yet found the right combination of settings on my end.

Also, it is not possible to discern the airport beacons from afar. I am still experimenting but I think it is something that needs to be changed.

LR still has some lighting tweaks planned ahead so I am very satisfied beyond my gripes above.

Edited October 1, 20241 yr by dolph98

3 hours ago, dolph98 said:

Thanks @Mike_CFII_MEL. Your Edits v5.0 is a keeper.

My night flights will be so much better once they fix that strange brightness bubble that precedes me. The brightness below is significantly brighter than the lights afar, not blended well IMO. Or I have not yet found the right combination of settings on my end.

Also, it is not possible to discern the airport beacons from afar. I am still experimenting but I think it is something that needs to be changed.

LR still has some lighting tweaks planned ahead so I am very satisfied beyond my gripes above.

Thanks Dolph,

I agree, I would love to see some changes to airport lighting. It's more or less a compromise at this point.

 

7 hours ago, Greazer said:

Very nice photoshop.

No photoshop, that's my flight deck as seen in X-Plane 12 with my night lighting edits ver. 5 and reshade. 

4 hours ago, efis007 said:

It's not photoshop, it's his real home cockpit.

Hi efis,

Yep, it's my flight deck, and I love every minute I get to spend in her or working on her!

That looks lovely. I’d love to have a go at a home cockpit like this one day. Must be fully immersive. 

3 hours ago, JonathanC said:

That looks lovely. I’d love to have a go at a home cockpit like this one day. Must be fully immersive. 

It's great, I can spend all day or night in the deck, with the three 75" monitors, the view is up to my shoulders. Next update will be going to 86" monitors.

Ha, there is no way I'd be allowed anything even close to this at home, but it looks incredible. My setup at the moment is basically a laptop and a X52 joystick.

I tried VR but I just didn't like it after a few tries. The headset was clunky, dark and uncomfortable, it took effort to setup and performance was subpar in comparison. Maybe I'll revisit one day

1 minute ago, tonywob said:

and performance was subpar in comparison.

you are obviously not using adequate hardware then (laptop 😀). with proper GPU/CPU, VR is fantastic. many users don't fly in 2D anymore at all. and unlike a home cockpit, everything is 3D, not only the cockpit and cabin, but the whole aircraft plus scenery, off course.

Yep, it was a gaming laptop (with a sticker saying VR ready), but it was anything but 

2 hours ago, tonywob said:

Yep, it was a gaming laptop (with a sticker saying VR ready), but it was anything but 

And you believed them...

49 minutes ago, mjrhealth said:

And you believed them...

I didn't buy the laptop for VR.. so no, not really. 

The headset wasn't great, it was the original Oculus Rift, it was dark, heavy and required clunky setup and cables. It worked as advertised for some games, but it was useless for flight simming as it was so low resolution and dark I could barely see anything

26 minutes ago, tonywob said:

I didn't buy the laptop for VR.. so no, not really. 

The headset wasn't great, it was the original Oculus Rift, it was dark, heavy and required clunky setup and cables. It worked as advertised for some games, but it was useless for flight simming as it was so low resolution and dark I could barely see anything

things have gotten a lot better and a lot cheaper since then

 

5 hours ago, mSparks said:

things have gotten a lot better and a lot cheaper since then

That's not a great headset for simming.

52 minutes ago, strider1 said:

That's not a great headset for simming.

Yeah I agree but I also feel like at least Quest 3 is nothing to be sneezed at. I had an HP Reverb G2 and I wasn't a big fan of it - I hate fresnel lenses as they are only sharp at a small area and they have a lot of chromatic aberration, at least this was my experience with the G2. Quest 3 with its pancake lens is a massive improvement over the G2. Meanwhile seems like Quest 3S uses a fresnel lens. I know there are much better pancake lens VR headsets but they are also pretty expensive compared to Quest 3, so it's my favorite right now - affordable and (imo) has a better overall clarity than even G2.

Edited October 3, 20241 yr by Maya2

I'm on the teetering edge of trying a lens replacement on the G2. Supposedly the Samsung Gear VR lenses are a good fit and eliminate much of the sweet spot size problems and aberration. That and not upgrade to Win11 (or at least their newest release) because WMR. Still a few VR apps out there that don't run in linux.