Realistic night road traffic with headlights and tail lights driving on the road

[CptLucky8]

@FlightPlanes

I can’t see ANY vehicles on the roads or motorways. No vehicle lights at all. It really ruins the immersion when flying at night when you expect to see busy traffic along major routes.
Is Asobo aware of this? Will it be fixed?

This is part of much larger night lighting issues:

@CptLucky8

To me, what drives the difference between roads is:

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when you see smooth moving car lights, it tells right away whether this is a major road and adds a lot to realism.

FS2020 road lights are static light bulbs and when I look at them more and more I believe the idea was to recreate the look and feel of roads with traffic as seen from above (hence the red and white static light bulbs). The problem is that they are static, let alone as demonstrated in this discussion oversized and blurry.

@CptLucky8

You’re making a valid point here. For example the first time they’ve indicated this “better source” I was led to believing it would be a higher resolution “sepia mask”. However this might also just mean a better source of data so that they can remove the sepia mask and replace it with accurate point lights instead. It is quite open to interpretation indeed!

Nevertheless I can assure you they are aware of the very details we’re trying to explain and document here, I’ve passed the message to this exact information. What is important to also note is that FS2020 is managing different types of lights with different code implementation and “night lighting” is really generic. In effect night lighting is referring to the various type of lights they are simulating which are typically:

• AirportLights (runway, approach, taxiway, VASI, beacon)
• StreetLights (“orbs”)
• FlightSimLights on sceneryobjects or simobjects (mostly used to illuminate Gate areas on bespoke airports, and for airport vehicles headlights)
• Aircraft Lights (which is technically part of night lighting)
• Road Traffic lights (white & red around moving cars)
• some emissive materials on some objects (e.g. taxiway signs)
• stars and sunlight

Though some elements are common in these systems, they are mostly different, which means any feedback/request/criticism of “night lighting” should (preferably) refer to specific systems.

This discussion is mostly about “StreetLights (orbs)” explicitly*.

And “Road Traffic lights” implicitly: I think I’ve posted for example street light shouldn’t embed static red/white lights representing the cars and cars should emit their own light instead like in XP11.