cata Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Just a quick inquiry any movement on lights and/or illumination? just asking as i see some light related changes in the new engine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Not really. Sunrise, Sunset, Twilight, etc. are there but not "night" - flares, searchlights, trip flares, IR, etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cata Posted June 7, 2019 Author Share Posted June 7, 2019 Roger thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japo32 Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 oh.. I was thinking about this right now. A shame.. it would be amazing to see some trucks with lights or civil trafic.. or just the tanks in some situations. Hope it can be added in future. If not possible because dx9, in dx12-12 or whatever. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 4 minutes ago, Japo32 said: oh.. I was thinking about this right now. A shame.. it would be amazing to see some trucks with lights or civil trafic.. or just the tanks in some situations. Hope it can be added in future. If not possible because dx9, in dx12-12 or whatever. I think its more the whole rather of "so what" issues that night fighting brings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japo32 Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 I suppose it don't have to be easy with the engine. When I was working for Laminar they had dx10 I think.. and they made lots of 3D illumination without any cost to the cpu. All GPU based. Well.. you were succeed with terrain definition. Maybe in future you can achieve this one also. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 Just now, Japo32 said: I suppose it don't have to be easy with the engine. When I was working for Laminar they had dx10 I think.. and they made lots of 3D illumination without any cost to the cpu. All GPU based. Well.. you were succeed with terrain definition. Maybe in future you can achieve this one also. As I said whilst the engine is one thing, its also all the tactical implications and other things you need modelled. Searchlights Trip flares II flares star shells tracer the various degrees of moon .... Its a massive list - far beyond headlights on a car. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japo32 Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 yes sure! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted August 1, 2019 Members Share Posted August 1, 2019 Plus, in an active war zone you just don't keep your lights on. Whether it's light in your home, street lamps, and most certainly not military vehicles. Driving around in a car at night while people shoot? You're either a Drawing Award volunteer, or very, very desperate. It's something entirely different in a civilian aviation simulation, and yes, there would be lights ... on the first evening of a war that starts after sunset. But people will adapt very quickly. It's one of the things where Hollywood is very misleading, but of course there's little point in making things so dark in a film that the audience doesn't see a thing. So there's practically never "real night" in Hollywood. And I'm not just referring to "American Night" with a blue filter on the camera like they did up to the 1980s ... which is about the equivalent of a theater stage where two actors are "whispering" into the audience and the third guy "can't hear them". Each medium has its own limitations. Dynamic light look quite spectacular, but the ones that everybody thinks of wouldn't be there, and the ones that most forget about are the ones with dramatic tactical relevance which should also be utilized/exploited by computer-controlled units. This is what makes this a pareticular challenge. I'd love to do it, but given all the other tasks on the list I can't give it a high priority. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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