As the title says, the sun and the moon appear very small and too distant in MSFS24. Reading a comment on here or Reddit someone mentioned that the sun and moon were too big in 2020, however, I preferred that. Now they look way too small.
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I believe 2024 is trying to simulate the “camera lens effect.” I like it personally.
What is needed is the ability to move the external camera on it’s X,Y,Z axis, so we can tailor that small sun and moon look by zooming however we want.
Thanks for the reply. I get that it may be more for the effect but I also tried to zoom in at max zoom and couldn’t see any detail. I actually went back to the eclipse from last year lol and it was just way too small to see. MSFS2020 may have been too big (not in my opinion) but I loved flying at night and seeing the moon, now it’s barely noticeable. If it’s not fixed, I’ll live, it’s cosmetic but it’s a nice touch and I hope at some point they address it.
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They were indeed way too big in FS2020. In FS2024 it looks appropriate to the chosen focal length (zooming in and out). I’d rather stick with the current realism than the oversized comic book look we had before.
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In 2024, when viewed from inside the cockpit, the moon looks like a smudge on the windscreen, honestly. I’d prefer not to have the lens effect unless I’m in camera mode outside of the aircraft.
actually they should be crescent in dawn/dusk phases… so simulate the size based on the lunar and solar phases… there are spectacular sunsets with the sun that looks like a huge orange… and periods of moon called “red” that is very large in waxing phase… I think it could be fixed… .let’s wait first for them to solve the ctd and big bugs… I voted!
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It’s been proven that they’re physically correct. Nothing to do with lens effects or anything else.
I can see the moon outside right now and reckon the one in the sim looks perfectly ok in comparison.
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In real life, they are surprisingly tiny. Some homework for you if you’re up for it: tonight when you see the moon in real life, hold out your hand at arms length - you can cover the entire moon with your pinky finger.
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FYI, there is a discussion topic about this here:
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The sun and moon are actually the correct size in 2024, and I greatly appreciated that change.
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It looks small in those pictures to me but most people are in agreeance that it’s accurate so sigh… i’ll defer to them.
If you played in VR they wouldn’t look small, they are tiny on 2D screens because everything is, just think how zoomed in you need to be to see instruments - yet irl this wouldn’t be needed
(and because the default external FoV is just a tad too zoomed out)
I do 90% of my simming in VR. Nice to meet another VR enthusiast. I think I’m just used to the 2020 moon, I liked it. All good, it’s not a gamebreaker for me.
It’s interesting they tried to appeal to the gamer’s feelings in 2020. “I feel like the moon is too small”. So they made it bigger.
But in 2024 changed it to be physically accurate.
An even more exaggerated example is in Grand Theft Auto. The moon is huge, which is playing into the emotional response to how one perceives it. That game is supposed to be a parody of real life though.
It’s interesting that it looks too small even in VR. Does everything else look correctly sized? I know there have been problems with this in the past where the world scale was off in some situations.
I don’t know… I try not to mess with the scaling as that is said to affect frames lol. I think things look appropriate, maybe slightly smaller but I’m used to playing with this scale since 2020. Felt like XPlane-11 scale was a little bigger but not sure. Had an amazing flight tonight from Copenhagen to Istanbul in VR and after reading all people’s replies and posts, I looked closely at the near full moon, it still looks a bit small but definitely see what people are saying about the 3rd person perspective making everything look smaller. I’ll get over it eventually, I guess I’m just a gamer playing flight sims lol. With that said… can we please customize our copilots?! I wanna create 