What do we make of these new "Outline" effects?

Excuse the very dark screenshot, but what I’m getting at is these new “outline” effects that can now be seen around the trees. I’ve also seen this effect around the aircraft itself. Seems to happen in poor weather.

And for anyone asking, no, the trees in that screenshot are nowhere near any streetlights or any other light source for that matter.

Just flew in VR mode over Scotland. Noticed this as well when flying below a ridgeline with trees at the top of the terrain. The silhouette of the tree against the sky has blurry outline artifacts. I thought it was my scaling settings, but alas it wasn’t as it persisted after going 100/100.

Yes, it looks very odd. It really stands out if you have clouds as a backdrop.

I know they haven’t added contrails, but there is some visible effect trailing behind planes in some circumstances, and it’s not new to this patch. It kind of looks like wisps of smoke puffing out behind the plane. It looks really cool, but I’m not sure what causes it. I will try to snap some video of it.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/ugly-bright-outline-on-airplanes-against-clouds/366571/7

So would it come under “post-processing effects”? If so it is undoubtedly going to affect FPS, so one would hope that there is a way to turn it off?

As with most post-processing effects (like blur) I can certainly live without it.

That trail I saw behind planes is not plane specific. Buildings have it also, as well as the building glow. This isn’t a new problem, but the glow is. I saw this trail behind planes last year, I just didn’t know what it was, or that you could create it by simply moving the drone camera around.

That trail is what I saw behind aircraft as they flew past the clouds. The building glow can be seen also.

Something funny just came up on my Edge Browser background. It’s using Bing photos and I saw this and reminded me of this bug in MSFS. Hahaha. Even the trees has the glowing outline against the cloudy background in this Bing photo.

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