Night Light Time Extension in MSFS2020

[G-YMML1]

Hello,

I'm just curios if there is a mode that allow to extend night lighting during dawn and start it earlier during dusk. We had this mode back in FS2004/FSX/P3D days, so perhaps we have it for MSFS2020 as well?

[Adamski_NZ]

I'd be interested if anyone has created a mod for 2024 - as I've always found MSFS dawn/dusk onsets totally unrealistic. eg. 9pm on a summer's evening in NZ is still quite bright in RL - yet the sim depicts it as almost night.

[AnkH]

4 hours ago, Adamski_NZ said:

I'd be interested if anyone has created a mod for 2024 - as I've always found MSFS dawn/dusk onsets totally unrealistic. eg. 9pm on a summer's evening in NZ is still quite bright in RL - yet the sim depicts it as almost night.

Guess it is because in RL, you get all sorts of light scattering (atmospheric, terrain etc.) and this would only be possible if you have full and real raytracing in the sim. Probably running with 1FPS on current rigs then (2FPS on a 5090). 

[Adamski_NZ]

4 hours ago, AnkH said:

Guess it is because in RL, you get all sorts of light scattering (atmospheric, terrain etc.) and this would only be possible if you have full and real raytracing in the sim. Probably running with 1FPS on current rigs then (2FPS on a 5090). 

No ... the basic sim timing is totally wrong ... by about 3 hours (!!). It's been a problem (and discussed) since FSX.

[AnkH]

4 hours ago, Adamski_NZ said:

No ... the basic sim timing is totally wrong ... by about 3 hours (!!). It's been a problem (and discussed) since FSX.

Ok, so your issue is not that the sim depicts lighting conditions at true 9pm wrong but it depicts it like it is 12am? Maybe the time zone correction addon on flightsim.to something for you to test then? It seems to work in both 2020 and 2024.