Please can we have realistic sky colours in the sim.
I know the sky colours were changed in SU14 but it is still unrealistic and too orange/yellow.
Here you can see at the same location and time the difference in colour.
I took a photo at the same location the aircraft in the sim was flying over.
The difference is obvious to see, the sim is too orange.
I hope people will agree with this.
Where is the sun in the second photo? If the sun was in view like in the sim screenshot I think it would look pretty similar.
as was said, there is a consideration to be made regaring the position and orientation of the camera in relation to the sun/horizon that will affect how you see (perceive?) the sky
The sun is to the left of the image, so you can still see the edge of the clouds that are facing away from the sun as are the clouds in the sim photo.
Tried to recreate it in the sim… but it’s really impossible to compare unless we knew the exact time the photo was taken, where it was taken, what direction the camera was pointed, etc…
I’ll try again tomorrow. It’s dark here now.
Certainly to me those colours look more realistic than the orange we normally see so much of the time in live weather.
You can still see that the whites of the clouds are yellow though in your shot. This is what I very very rarely see in real life.
In real life, certainly in my location, Europe, the whites of the cloud are white and then become a grey/blue, as can be seen in my real world photo, and get darker as the sun goes down. I don’t see yellow/orange clouds.
I’m in Europe and a few days ago it was orange/yellow at sunset… I see it a lot here.
To get an accurate comparison you should be in the cockpit at high altitude to see if there’s any difference
I think the sim is tuned to always do an ideal “Hawaiian” sunset. They probably don’t have a feasible way to implement the different looking skies you can get all over the world at the moment.
Probably will have to wait to see what they do in MSFS 2024 with the new atmospheric engine. I don’t think we will see any changes to the current lighting. I do agree…looks too tropical all the time and probably due to the clouds not being dense enough allowing too much light to come through creating the orange effect.
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