A.I. Nav Lights While Landing

[Beebop]

I was just testing a mission and when the AI (Ju-52's) landed they didn't turn on their navigation lights.

Is that a new feature?  Truthfully I like it as it was always too easy to see landing planes from distances as far away as the moon, and even Venus on a clear evening.

 

Or did I do something....right?

[IckyATLAS]

What I have noted is that indeed sometimes the AI planes they turn on they navigation lights then off and then on again.

It all depends during the take-off and landing phase. But impossible to predict this erratic behavior.

It is a long story this Nav Light problem. Jason said he could not do anything about it, his display technology cannot do better than that. It was the same for clouds but it seems now he can improve things. Maybe the time for this will come one day.

But there was long ago a mod who had greatly improved it. I tested it and it was very acceptable. 

This topic seems no priority for the devs. But for night missions it is just an immersion killer when you see enemy planes on a base in the dark of the night miles away and glowing like if the bulb was as big as the plane, so when you have three bulbs it becomes ridiculous. I suppose that night missions is a very small subset of the missions made so this reduces the interest for it even more.

I would love if Jason would at least let us switch those Nav Lights off for the AI planes but it seems it is hard-coded in the takeoff and landing circuit scripts.

 

[Beebop]

3 hours ago, IckyATLAS said:

I would love if Jason would at least let us switch those Nav Lights off for the AI planes

+1000!

3 hours ago, IckyATLAS said:

it seems it is hard-coded in the takeoff and landing circuit scripts.

It's a code written by humans.  One would think it could be changed. 

Or is the IL-2 Code something found on a stone tablet on top of a mountain under a burning bush? 

[AEthelraedUnraed]

3 hours ago, IckyATLAS said:

This topic seems no priority for the devs. But for night missions it is just an immersion killer when you see enemy planes on a base in the dark of the night miles away

Well, having read the Kriegstagebuch of II./KG 55, I know of at least a few instances where the pilots did see enemy planes on a base in the dark of the night miles away.

 

That said, the brightness is indeed a bit overdone when seen from large distances.

 

13 minutes ago, Beebop said:

It's a code written by humans.  One would think it could be changed. 

Or is the IL-2 Code something found on a stone tablet on top of a mountain under a burning bush? 

Everything can be changed. The question is just how much work it will take