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Summary
To be honest, FS2020 night lighting for city and airport lights looks better than FS2024. '24’s lighting is too bright, the bloom is a bit exaggerated. Lights in the far distance can be seen shining very brightly (see in the examples below) and the sepia mask makes for an “artificial” looking brightness as if the lighting was forced. Airport lighting looks like stars in your face and seem to get brighter the farther they are. The same can be said for all lighting in general; they don’t get dimmer with distance. They have a constant brightness even if they are very far.
ISSUE DESCRIPTION
Description of the issue:
Explained in the title. I saw a bug report regarding this a while back and it was marked as fixed. The issue can be found here:
The thread above provides an in-depth explanation of the issues.
While the airport lighting visibility in the distance is a bit better, the rest of the lighting is still too bright. Airport and runway lights light up like stars in your face, while city lights make the world too bright. The sepia mask also doesn’t look good.
ICAO, coordinates, or specific location:
Any airport/city. The pictures below will be from RJTT (Tokyo Haneda) and the default RPLL (Manila)
[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
I have addons but the one’s that I have aren’t relevant for this issue as it applies for both default and add-on scenery
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Every time.
REPRODUCTION STEPS
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- Go to any airport at night. Preferrably international airports with a lot of lights
YOUR SETTINGS
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[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
Developer mode is on, but no changes
[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
RTX 3090
MEDIA
In the examples below, you can see some areas with orange lighting. It looks as if the towns are on fire, or there are people carrying pitchforks and torches in some mid-12th century protest or something.
I’d like to bring up another example of good night lighting which was also brought up in the thread I mentioned earlier:
EDIT:
I think I understand part of the problem. Instead of night lights getting dimmer as the source is further away, they seem to have the same brightness or are somehow brighter.
The problem doesn’t seem to be limited to airport lighting, but city lights are way too bright as well.
Here we are at Tokyo Haneda airport, Runway 34R. As you can see, the brightness of the lights somehow remain constant even if the light source is far away.
If you look off to the coast on the right side, you can see the lights shining very bright.
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