Lightning in Live Weather - Excessive and where Lightning should not Occur

[CaptShawarma]

Great to see others notice that lightning doesn’t have to be the sky’s strobe lights.

I’ve included clear visual comparisons of the lightning in MSFS vs IRL below.

Lightning in MSFS needs a visual overhaul

The lightning in MSFS is too tame and very flat looking. The illumination around the clouds when lightning strikes looks very good but the visual properties of flashes need to be adjusted to better reflect real life lightning. Here are the things wrong with the current lightning appearance. Flashes are too slow. The flashes are singular The flashes appear at one place at a time and don’t build up static and branch out. View this very short video demonstrating lightning flashes. [Ligh…