night darkness

[louisv]

+1

[DB605]

Seems ok to me. Few shots:

Moon behind:



again:



moon in front:



and same from outside:

[DB605]

Moon at right side:



and some weird UFO:s

[ARM505]

Funny how a seemingly easily solved point always ends up being debated on these forums.

I have flown many hours at night with varying degrees of moonlight in light aircraft and airliners (although not much ambient light gets into them due to the pretty small windscreens re cockpit lighting) and the current night light seems far too bright, moonlight or not. Night is dark. This sounds blindingly (pardon the pun) obvious, but sims like DCS A10 get it right, ie on a moonless night you can't see a thing if there aren't lights on the ground. It's like flying in an inkwell. I flew with a full moon just the other night, and while it does light up things very well, it doesn't give perfect vision, although you could fly without lights very easily (you'd have to be pretty lucky to land however IMHO). Still, one shouldn't be able to see individual trees many kilometers away, as is now the case as demonstrated by these shots, or the instrument panel with perfect clarity. When practicing electrical failure in light aircraft, moonlight was not sufficient to see all instruments with any degree of accuracy, although a Cherokee doesn't have a transparent roof! Also, the colour is totally wrong - moonlight tends to wash out all colours, ending up with a kind of black and white effect. It's a totally artificial look at present - pre patch gets my vote, for what it's worth.

[Jatta Raso]

Originally Posted by ARM505

Funny how a seemingly easily solved point always ends up being debated on these forums.

I have flown many hours at night with varying degrees of moonlight in light aircraft and airliners (although not much ambient light gets into them due to the pretty small windscreens re cockpit lighting) and the current night light seems far too bright, moonlight or not. Night is dark. This sounds blindingly (pardon the pun) obvious, but sims like DCS A10 get it right, ie on a moonless night you can't see a thing if there aren't lights on the ground. It's like flying in an inkwell. I flew with a full moon just the other night, and while it does light up things very well, it doesn't give perfect vision, although you could fly without lights very easily (you'd have to be pretty lucky to land however IMHO). Still, one shouldn't be able to see individual trees many kilometers away, as is now the case as demonstrated by these shots, or the instrument panel with perfect clarity. When practicing electrical failure in light aircraft, moonlight was not sufficient to see all instruments with any degree of accuracy, although a Cherokee doesn't have a transparent roof! Also, the colour is totally wrong - moonlight tends to wash out all colours, ending up with a kind of black and white effect. It's a totally artificial look at present - pre patch gets my vote, for what it's worth.

totally agree, where i live sometimes you can see far out in the horizon at 3-4am by mid august with full moon with virtually any light (in fact light just makes you see less in those warm summer nights) but you see everything in shades of black and cyan-white, without the exaggerated brightness we have right now... considering that the summer 1940 in England had unusually southern-like weather, i think the team tried to make a step in the right direction, both in terms of simulation and gameplay (what can you shoot in pitch black), but they overdone it quite a bit... i expect they'll continue to work on it

IMO that blue needs toned down,. theres a nice glow element but the colour is just too blue, needs to be more grey. over the sea is really nice as the cloud shadow cuts out the specular but over land there is no shadow. and the ground is still to bright during night and day,

[RedToo]

I agree about the blue - far too blue. On a moonlit night the white cliffs of Dover are now the blue cliffs of Dover. Horrible, unnatural, wrong.

RedToo.