[video] The great heli race

[Kerbo]

I thought it might be a good night to practice that nasty approach into 46CA but turns out the circus was in town.

Here is raw footage of just some of the fun that was going on out at the ranch tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fswSD9XuCg

[Keith Smith]

That's fantastic! Gotta get those global shadows turned on, man, then you can work out everyone's height

Did you change the light sizes? They're abnormally large.

[Kerbo]

I'm new to X-Plane and it's pretty stock. I know where the shadow setting is so will change that but don't know about the lights.

[Keith Smith]

Kerbo, do you have HDR turned on?

[Kerbo]

Kerbo, do you have HDR turned on?

Yes, I did. Does that make some light sources look oversize? I'll play around with some settings.

[Keith Smith]

That's odd. HDR shouldn't make them look oversized if you're using stock settings. You normally have to go out of your way to play with the light sizes for HD CSL's via LUA if I understand correctly (I've never done it). I'm not sure if it's a video driver difference, I have a pretty old Radeon card, maybe they just look different with NVidia. Can anyone else confirm?

[stevekirks]

That's odd. HDR shouldn't make them look oversized if you're using stock settings. You normally have to go out of your way to play with the light sizes for HD CSL's via LUA if I understand correctly (I've never done it). I'm not sure if it's a video driver difference, I have a pretty old Radeon card, maybe they just look different with NVidia. Can anyone else confirm?

Windows 7
X-Plane 10.32 (Steam)
Latest PE Client
NVidia GT640/Driver 347.52
Stock except standard plugins for FSE, PE, Saitek panels, FSrealWX

I watched that video and that's what all aircraft on PE look like to me. Big lights that are nice and easy to see at 10 miles out.

EDIT: HDR IS OFF for me but "draw per pixel lighting" is on.

[tshuff]

That's odd. HDR shouldn't make them look oversized if you're using stock settings. You normally have to go out of your way to play with the light sizes for HD CSL's via LUA if I understand correctly (I've never done it). I'm not sure if it's a video driver difference, I have a pretty old Radeon card, maybe they just look different with NVidia. Can anyone else confirm?

Windows 7
X-Plane 10.32 (Steam)
Latest PE Client
NVidia GT640/Driver 347.52
Stock except standard plugins for FSE, PE, Saitek panels, FSrealWX

I watched that video and that's what all aircraft on PE look like to me. Big lights that are nice and easy to see at 10 miles out.

NVidia reporting in here, that is not what my lights look like. I find spotting the CSLs to be nearly impossible. I actually thought while watching this video that I should find how how to make that tweak before I have to rename my stream to "Negative Traffic"

[stevekirks]

NVidia reporting in here, that is not what my lights look like. I find spotting the CSLs to be nearly impossible. I actually thought while watching this video that I should find how how to make that tweak before I have to rename my stream to "Negative Traffic"

I edited my post to show that my HDR is off and "draw per pixel lighting" is on. Do you have HDR on?

[tshuff]

I edited my post to show that my HDR is off and "draw per pixel lighting" is on. Do you have HDR on?

Ah, well that probably changes it. I have HDR and Per Pixel both set to on. Probably solves that one .