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by N6722c »
Its a result of the design of FSX's lighting system.
The "LANDING LIGHT" is just turning up the brightness of a portion of the dark scene.
The scene is already dark, so it only has a few levels of Black, between absolute black, and say a very dark grey. That is the only information in the scene.
If part of that scene has it brightness turned up, there is no new information added, just those few dark levels are are amplified up the brightness scale. This leads to the banding, and the color corruption.
It always has been a failing in FSX.
Taxi up to a brightly colored painted aircraft at night, with light off, and you see is a grey shadow.
Turn on your lights, and you see a Brighter Grey shadow. You will not get the vivid colors you would see in daylight, because the information is not there when FSX renders a night scene.
Problem in FSX.. no so much a problem in X-Plane ... maybe hope in P3D someday.
That being said, Shockwave/A2A aircraft lighting is an amazing improvement in FSX at night.
( especially when you look up and see other flying plane's strobe light & Nav lights, many miles away)
Geoff
