Bring back volumetric lighting!

[RaptyrOne 1,483]

But why are Asobo doing this in the first place? Why dumb down volumetric lighting?

Is is because they think we wont notice? Is it because it was yet another backdoor experiment to produce more FPS? Or are they simply such bad coders that that they truly dont know what they are doing and this is all just ‘accidental’?

Surely someone within must have made a decision to flick switches in the code. If they cant explain it then it is either because they genuinely have no clue or simply don’t care to, in which case we can suspect ineptitude is strongly in play.

[Keirtt 616]

3 minutes ago, RaptyrOne said:

But why are Asobo doing this in the first place? Why dumb down volumetric lighting?

Is is because they think we wont notice? Is it because it was yet another backdoor experiment to produce more FPS? Or are they simply such bad coders that that they truly dont know what they are doing and this is all just ‘accidental’?

Surely someone within must have made a decision to flick switches in the code. If they cant explain it then it is either because they genuinely have no clue or simply don’t care to, in which case we can suspect ineptitude is strongly in play.

I sure hope they didn't think we wouldn't notice. Another simmer on another thread brought up a good point that we will probably see some of these features return as things even out with the Xbox. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case here. I would be curious going forward though why it wasn't included in the release notes if that's the case. My fingers are crossed though that this is just a simple bug. 

[Tuskin38 7,139]

It's probably a bug.

[HiFlyer 9,485]

40 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

It's probably a bug.

I did notice that, on a night flight, but was not sure if my memory was correct. Plus I wanted to reinstall Uwa's lighting mods to see if it had something to do with my possibly faulty memory.

[Keirtt 616]

24 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

I did notice that, on a night flight, but was not sure if my memory was correct. Plus I wanted to reinstall Uwa's lighting mods to see if it had something to do with my possibly faulty memory.

I just tried UWAs lighting mods for the 208 and didn't see it working. Unfortunately the mod didn't help either, but his pictures do this lighting effect great justice to show that it existed.

Edited August 1, 2021 by Keirtt

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

1 minute ago, Keirtt said:

I just tired UWAs lighting mods for the 208 and didn't see it working. Unfortunately the mod didn't help either, but his pictures do this lighting effect great justice to show that it existed.

Seems just about everything has been broken

[bean_sprout 1,201]

Working great here.  What are your settings?

Regards

bs

[Keirtt 616]

2 minutes ago, bean_sprout said:

Working great here.  What are your settings?

Regards

bs

Can you show some screenshots of it working? Everything on ultra for me and it's not visible.

[bean_sprout 1,201]

Just now, Keirtt said:

Can you show some screenshots of it working? Everything on ultra for me and it's not visible.

Try High instead.  

bs

 

[Mike A 357]

2 hours ago, Richard Sennett said:

needs to be brought to light

👍🤣

[Keirtt 616]

2 minutes ago, bean_sprout said:

Try High instead.  

bs

 

In the sim now with high settings. No volumetric lights. I can verify this by looking at the strobes with no reflection. Do you have any screenshots or a video showing this working?

Edited August 1, 2021 by Keirtt

[Greazer 1,432]

I paid a Premium price for Premium Deluxe but what is this, a Premium joke.

[Guest abranpuko]

no volumteric lights, no ai traffic, no defined clouds = more performance for FPS Thirsty people

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,799]

They actually temporarily removed entire channels that they could not make compatible with SU5 in time.   Maybe this is related.

[Keirtt 616]

Just now, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

They actually temporarily removed entire channels that they could not make compatible with SU5 in time.   Maybe this is related.

I’m ok with that. A simple explanation from the devs this week would satisfy me. Atleast I hope it’s that easy.