As the title says, I believe this game needs night lightings to work. We need landing lights to work, logo lights and cockpit lights and also lights in airport. But most importantly landing lights in my opinion. Currently the night flights are very dark and honestly makes me not want to fly nights. It would improve the game so much if we had an update for that.
Better lighting is in the works as part of Project Metal:
High hopes for project metal
Oh, didnt know about this. I hope they can achieve this. Very exciting stuff!
This will be a game changer
I wonder why they still couldn’t do it while other mobile sims can already?
This is the way I look at it. IF spends time on quality and making sure things look the best they can for a mobile sim.
If you look at other games such as RFS it has a ton of features however the graphics are a little choppy. Not saying it’s bad but it can be better.
Sure IF has parts that are dull but if you look at some of our newer aircrafts they look basically identical to the ones in real life.
So to answer your question IF devs tend to take their time on things to make sure it’s just right and perfect for us players.
Look at the 737 MAX for example. It took a looooong time for it to come out but that’s because they took their time and worked on it properly to please us players.
If you are referring to AeroFly and XPlane’s graphics and lighting, those were PC sims originally with those features - which is considerably easier to simply port over to mobile rather than making these things for mobile from scratch.
You can vote for the feature here:
Yes, for improvements such as lighting or 3D clouds, we have been a few years…
It’s requiring basically a complete rewrite of the game’s “engine” - its a long process, particularly on a game thats over 10 years old at this point.
Man its been that long? Wow, the game sure has came a long way!
true during landing in dawn or dusk i can’t even see PAPI light properly
Its not only papi light. Airport is basically pitch black except for taxi lights and RWY lights
Isn’t Also Like City Lights and 3D Weather and Clouds and also Snow, Deicing, Rain and also Things Like Extended Pull for pushback and pull to another gate also In the works by project metal?
Project metal isn’t just one update. It’s already came out in many little pieces… such as the addition of 3d buildings in airports, clouds, taxiway lighting, and so many other things. With this being said, there is also still a lot to come on the horizon.
Pretty much
Not to mention, they spend weeks and months trying to optimize these features and the new bunch of aircraft as to perform very wisely in each graphics for the performance of the phone
project metal would hopefully make it even more realistic. and i agree night flights are indeed very dark . rework to sunset and sunrise lightings
would be more beautiful as well
IF Devs spend time to optimize the graphics for our Android/IOS devices, they prioritize the simulation to run smoothly while improving the graphics, texture, and rendering. This is why they never put the illumination of the lights and its dynamic around the environment, it tremendously needs better processors of our Android/IOS, it would just slow down the performance of our devices
Hence, they must switch to newer, better and high-performance graphics API (Application Processing Unit) such as Vulkan (Android) and IOS (Metal), these API can render the illumination better than the current graphics API we have right now, so switching to these graphics API definitely needs time. The other flight apps/sim has better graphics API so they wanted to put what’s best, illumination, volumetric clouds, not prioritizing models and textures of the aircraft
Good luck! We’ve been asking for smoke on landing for 10 years! The graphics are embarrassingly bad all round on this game. Good thing the planes work relatively well.