Night Texture Question

[falcon409]

This hasn't been a major deal with me because I seldom fly any night flights and when I do I spend more time in the cockpit rather than outside (can't see anything anyways).
My question is this. . .are splotchy, flat appearing colors and textures a norm for night textures in FS9. The textures I see have no real resolution to them, no detail. . .clouds, for instance, rather than appearing puffy and full as they do during the day, appear as layers of color from light to dark. Kinda hard to explain but I'm hoping you understand what I'm getting at here.
Daytime textures are perfect, as they should be. . .night textures, nowhere near perfect.

 

[Tom Clayton]

I guess it depends on the developer and the way the model handles night lighting. It may be an issue deep in FS itself, but every model I've seen that uses light maps at night loose all alpha reflection when those maps are active. Turn on the landing lights and the chrome spinners go dull grey!

 

[Matt Wynn]

yeah its an FS Internal issue alpha channels won't display at night, but i rarely notice as i fly the dull painted military Jets (F-111, Gloster Javelin etc...) only lights i need then are panel and the 'glo-slime'. but yeah i know what you mean, its lacks depth at night in essence...

 

[falcon409]

Actually I'm talking about the ground/terrain/sky textures, not the aircraft. It looks as though the night texturing goes from 16mil colors to 2 colors, lol. . .everything goes flat.

 

[Sunny9850]

At least for the cloud textures that may be resolved by setting the 3D percentage slider to 100%....of course that will affect your FPS.

If you have 2D clouds they blend reasonably well in the day time but at night and especially during dusk and dawn they stand out and ruin the realism.

Not if you can do anything about the ground textures.

Stefan

 

[falcon409]

At least for the cloud textures that may be resolved by setting the 3D percentage slider to 100%....of course that will affect your FPS. . . . .Not if you can do anything about the ground textures.
Stefan

I guess what I've learned from this is that this hasn't come as a surprise to anyone. In other words, this is the norm and no one questions it. . .just the way it is. I guess if it's dark, who cares what the terrain looks like. . .lol.