Hello, I hope the Microsoft Flight Simulator developers see this topic and consider it. :slight_smile: I have been flying a lot at night. I love how peaceful it is. However, when I stare at the stars, something isn’t right, they don’t “twinkle”. It feels like im looking at a steady picture and brea…

That’s one of the drawbacks of having a “sky box” textured night sky like in MSFS, compared to stars rendered as spots/sprites from real positions/coordinates. The latter would also scale the limiting magnitude correctly depending on sky-brightness/lightpollution. But the milkyway would probably req…

That would be great, but… That takes away a lot of FPS for such a trivial feature. You are asking them to render the sky as individual stays rather than an image plus asking for the flight sim to analyse movement of wind layers and particulate matter above you to see what level of effect needs to b…

I wonder if this is possible, along with other little atmospheric treats like heat radiating off the ground, as the effects become more developed now that it’s possible to add them into the sim?

[image] Stars too close? Virtual Reality (VR) I vote for this topic too! I don’t believe they are, on the contrary and here is why: FS2020 is using a texture projected on a dome. . It is clear you can’t have enough pixels in the projected texture otherwise it will b…

[image] Yuudai5178: That takes away a lot of FPS for such a trivial feature. A lot of FPS? Not at all… I’ve been into astronomy for a bunch of years and used planetarium programs doing a very decent job at this many many years go on ancient computers. The FPS hit is far from “a lot”, for pl…

[image] Yuudai5178: plus asking for the flight sim to analyse movement of wind layers and particulate matter above you to see what level of effect needs to be applied. The stars themselves could be accurate, but the twinkling effect could be fudged, and I doubt anyone would notice. Unless th…

Stellar scintillation

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CptLucky8 March 10, 2021, 12:55am 5