Shadows inexistant in exterior views

[DementedCorn327]

Continuing the discussion from Sim Update 4 Beta (1.6.18.0) Release Notes - October 22, 2025:

@SeedyL3205

Aircraft Tech

• Fixed poor shadow quality and flickering when authored bounding sphere of aircraft did not match with geometry. The game now recomputes a bounding sphere containing only the visible meshes. LOD selection keeps the previous computation of the bounding sphere, and is not impacted.

Today’s update is not fixing the missing shadow issue for some aircraft but fixes the poor shadow quality for aircraft having a shadow:

@x20Timbits

If you have RT Shadows OFF and spawn in any 2024 aircraft, shadows are non-existent in External.

The A320 has a shadow in external view (RT OFF):