ISSUE DESCRIPTION
Description of the issue:
The landing light beam in the Grumman Albatross G111 does not track the position of the landing lights.
Although the left & right wing lights themselves can be rotated using the switches in the cockpit, the light beam itself can remain pointing vertically down, irrespective of the position of the landing light. In the screenshot below, one can see the light pointed forward, but the light beam does not reflect that.
If applicable, which aircraft is experiencing this issue:
Grumman Albatross G111, but may affect other aircraft.
[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
No 3rd-Party or Community Addons (default installation) / Yes
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
First noticed in SU3 v1.5.4.0, but probably has been present before that. According to the developer of the aircraft, this issue is intermittent. In this post, the developer states:
[quote=“Ramasurinen, post:535, topic:667391”]
Yes this is an occasional bug that I cannot fix myself unfortunately. It’s an issue with the new modular simobject system during initial load of the plane. Native aircraft in 2024 are assembled from pieces in a way, and the landing lights are at the very end of a long chain of nodes, including wing flex.Sometimes during load they do not initialize correctly and the light effect does not attach and animate properly with its parent node. I have tried everything possible on my end to fix it but to no avail. It’s up to Asobo to fix this one. The only workaround is to restart the flight. That fixes it 99% of the time.
[/quote]
May be related to this issue described in the developer forums.
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
- In free flight, select the Grumman Albatross G111, choose to start at any airport runway, with weather set to clear skies (just for convenience) and time to any time at night - e.g. midnight local time.
- In the cockpit, ensure the landing lights are on. Toggle the switches that adjust the direction of the lights. Switch to external view & notice how the light beam continues to point straight down at the runway under the aircraft. The light does not point forward to illuminate the runway in front of the aircraft.
YOUR SETTINGS
What peripherals are you using, if relevant:
N/A
[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
Developer Mode is Off / No changes
[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?
N/A
[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
Intel Arc 770 (16GB, v32.0.101.6314)
[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
Expand to see my basic PC specs:
| Item | Setting |
|---|---|
| CPU | i7-12700K (no overclocking or undervolting) |
| RAM | 32 GB 5200 MHz DDR5 CL40 RAM |
| GPU | Intel Arc 770 (16GB, v32.0.101.6314) |
| Peripherals | Microsoft USB Natural Keyboard, Microsoft USB Wireless Intellimouse Explorer, Xbox 360 Wired Controller, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro |
| OS | Windows 11 Pro 24 H2 v26100.3194 + all OS updates. |
| MSFS 2024 Edition | MS Store Premium Deluxe + all WUs & CUs |
| Downloaded Content | None (i.e., all Streamed) |
| Build Version | SU3 v1.5.4.0 |
| 3rd-Party & Community Addons | None |
No performance-improving applications are installed (e.g. for CPU or GPU improvements).
Neither the Intel Arc Control Service or Arc Control App is running.
Expand to see my graphics settings
| Item | Setting |
|---|---|
| Display Mode | Full Screen |
| HDR10 | On |
| Exposure Compensation EV | -1 |
| Full Screen Res | 3840 x 2160 |
| Anti-Aliasing | TAA |
| Render scaling | 65 (Resolution: 2496 x 1404) |
| AMD FidelityFX Sharpening | 150 |
| Max Frame Rate | On |
| Max Frame Rate Value | 60 |
| Frame Generation | AMD FSR 3 |
| Framerate Multiplier | 2x |
| VSync | Off (N/A) |
| VSync Interval | Half refresh rate (N/A) |
| Dynamic Settings | On |
| Frame Rate Target | 60 |
| - | - |
| Global Rendering Quality | Custom |
| Terrain LOD | 400 |
| Off Screen Terrain Pre-Cache | Ultra |
| Displacement Mapping | On |
| Buildings | High |
| Trees | Medium |
| Plants | Medium |
| Rocks | Medium |
| Grass | Medium |
| Object LOD | 200 |
| Volumetric Clouds | Ultra |
| Texture Resolution | Medium |
| Anisotropic Filtering | 4x |
| Water Waves | Medium |
| Raytraced Shadows | On |
| Shadow Maps | 2048 |
| Terrain Shadows | 512 |
| Contact Shadows | High |
| Windshield Effects | High |
| Ambient Occulsion | High |
| Cubemap Reflections | 256 |
| Raymarched Reflections | Medium |
| Light Shafts | Ultra |
| Depth of Field | Off |
| Motion Blur | Off |
| Glass Cockpit Refresh Rate | High |
| Characters Quality | Medium |
| Traffic Airport Quality | Low |
| Air Traffic | Medium |
| Road Traffic | Medium |
| Sea Traffic | Medium |
| Fauna | High |
Expand to see my other settings
| Item | Setting |
|---|---|
| Online Tab | |
| Photogrammetry | On |
| Aircraft Traffic Type | Real-Time Online |
| Air Traffic in Career | Off |
| Live Weather | On |
| Multiplayer | Off |
| Multiplayer Servers | West USA |
| Show MP aircraft in close proximity | Off |
| Rolling Cache | On @ 16GB |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited |
| Advanced Options | |
| Developer Mode | Off |
| Flight Model | Modern |
MEDIA
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