Hello, I love the night lighting in MSFS, However one thing that irks me is that it seems that parts of the terrain itself is a source of illumination. See attached image for example. some parts of the terrain are lit and other parts are pitch dark (Which is what to be expected) Preferrably of c…

@Living6Dead66 I am talking about the lit up ground texture issue in few places like desert areas (ex: Dubai) as posted by Coppersens, which still exists.

If anybody doesn’t think the lighting is far too bright… take a night flight over Pittsburgh. Hard to even find the city for all of the lighting.

The night lighting now looks almost identical to X-Plane 11 now which is extremely ugly. It’s too “digital” and less analog. At least before it had some sort of variation, and the lights look more natural and subtle. All they really had to do was address the sepia-tone texture while leaving the actu…

Agreed, need to fix the rural areas. If you see the classification in OSM. There is some options Key:highway - OpenStreetMap Wiki The challenge is what happens for major roads / highways. Typically in the rural areas there won’t be lights there but I can see classification for I90 outside of Seattl…

Coppersens: And here’s how Abu Dhabi/Dubai really look like at night (Abu Dhabi is in the bottom right corner): These are long exposure shots. That’s not how it looks in real life.

Living6Dead66: “Terrain emitting light” , do you mean the sepia filter, or the glow from cities? If you mean the second one , I think it is one of the most realistic things I’ve seen in a long time of a 3d interpretation of light pollution produced by the millions of light sources ,around a cit…

I understand. So how is it that they closed the issue by marking it ‘Done’ in the recent update?

I wonder if the night lighting update (#5) is related to this thread. Are they reading it wrong? Is people OK with the current X-Plane / arcade lighting we have now? Please, Asobo, take these fixes to the art department before releasing it. No graphic designer would OK this patch. It was soo much b…

[image] SeaW0lfBis: These are long exposure shots. That’s not how it looks in real life. What do you mean..? Do you mean illuminated roads should be black, while the desert should glow in the dark? It looks like “that”, but not as bright. It’s not the brightness being discussed obviously. L…

[image] Grinde81: What do you mean…? That some people are bringing photos that are long exposures ones. No city looks like a pot of melted gold glowing in the dark.