Cockpit Glass shading

[Insuber]

I believe also that at dusk the shading is even stronger. Not very realistic IMHO.

[bongodriver]

But glass/perspex or whatever still catches shadow and light, all of the science talk is great but what you get in a lab is different to what you see in real life, the surface is covered in dust/scratches and other detritis, even if it is relatively new it picks up dirt pretty quick, this does make it seem fairly dark.

[Insuber]

Yes but the ground crew were very careful at cleaning canopies, since the life of the pilot depended from it. And as the average life of a fighter was few weeks, anyway the wear was not an issue. So I believe that the 18-22% of light absorption in-game is way too much with respect to the 8% of chemistry data. Do we settle for 10%? ...

[bongodriver]

I couldn't quantify with a particular percentage, all I have is the experience of how sitting under perspex seems to me and even new/clean perspex casts a fair bit of shadow and in game it doesn't feel so wrong to me, but I will concede that 20% does sound too much.

[Insuber]

Since the shading is quite disturbing, I fly always with open canopy, and noticed that several online players do the same. We didn't have this issue with Il2-1946.

Cheers,
Insuber

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Insuber

Since the shading is quite disturbing, I fly always with open canopy, and noticed that several online players do the same. We didn't have this issue with Il2-1946.

Cheers,
Insuber

true but il2 1946 doesn't have the same shader materials and self shadowing effects.........semantics really I guess, one thing reading all the forum illustrates is there will 'never' be a one size fits all solution to any software.

Well, hope they will fix those fake tracers first...

Then they could reduce transparency opacity from 20% to 10 %...

Salute !