White clouds at night

[bruced39]

I've been noticing when flying at night in total darkness clouds will all of a sudden turn white and within time fade to black. 

 

Has as anyone else experienced this? And is there a fix coming for it?

[sundog]

This should only happen if you change the time of day while flying and pan the camera around. Once you fly for a few seconds it should clear itself up. It's a side effect of an optimization to maintain fluid framerates when the lighting conditions suddenly change.

However, there is a fix for this slated for our next release.

 

[bruced39]

Than you for your reply. I am not changing anything in the sim while flying. When flying at night every now and then a cloud brightens to white then fades after time. Hopefully the upcoming fix will solve my problem. Thank you.

 

David Bruce

[sundog]

I think it should (fix it) but we'll be sure to give that extra attention in beta testing.

[sizziano]

I can confirm this still happens even with plenty of free VRAM.

[Cameron]

I can confirm this still happens even with plenty of free VRAM.

That has nothing to do with what was explained above.

[sizziano]

That has nothing to do with what was explained above.

Oh sorry posted in the wrong thread. Regardless it's a condition of which I was informed could cause this issue and I can confirm that at least for me it's not the case.

[sundog]

This particular thing has nothing to do with VRAM. But as mentioned above we have a fix that's going into testing soon.

[sizziano]

On 10/15/2016 at 5:37 AM, sundog said:

This particular thing has nothing to do with VRAM. But as mentioned above we have a fix that's going into testing soon.

Just going off what @JohnMAXX posted in another related thread:

 

" If the are taking a long time to regenerate it's possible you're pushing your system and taxing VRAM.... "

[JohnMAXX]

Just a suggestion, as I mentioned before I only see this problem when I'm playing with the time slider while testing....

[bruced39]

Here is a video of it happening during a flight. Watch the full video and you will see it. It happens on most of my flights.

Dave

a320neo_1.avi

[bruced39]

Please see this Facebook Xplane Dedicated user's video a look at what I and others are seeing and having a problem of.

 

 

[sundog]

I think this was discussed in more detail in another thread, but to summarize - it's a known issue that can happen if you have a large cloud draw area setting in SMP and change the time of day during a flight. It should be fixed in SMP version 4. It will still take a few seconds for distant clouds to re-light in response to a time of day change, but they shouldn't get "stuck" like they can now.

[sizziano]

I think this was discussed in more detail in another thread, but to summarize - it's a known issue that can happen if you have a large cloud draw area setting in SMP and change the time of day during a flight. It should be fixed in SMP version 4. It will still take a few seconds for distant clouds to re-light in response to a time of day change, but they shouldn't get "stuck" like they can now.

I should also point out that this can also happen without changing the time of day.