Internal Glass Refelections

[Hodgeheg4424]

Version: 1.6.34.0

Frequency: Frequently

Severity: High

Marketplace package name: if applicable

Context: Affects our aircraft which have a certain windshield setup in MSFS 2024 only

Similar MSFS 2020 issue: insert url here if applicable

Bug description:

We’ve had a problem with some of our aircraft such as the Fokker 28 and our upcoming F100 project whereby there’s strong reflections on the glass materials which we appear to have no control over.

Our aircraft typically have a secondary glass object which sits Infront of the main windshield. We’ve felt this gives a more realistic look than having a single windshield as this allows for things like heating element objects to be sandwiched between both.

The problem we have is that in MSFS 2024 the secondary glass layer always has very strong reflections from the cockpit under any kind of flood lighting. This is not an issue in MSFS2020 with the same model.

Non of the material properties in 3ds max seem to have any effect on this including the Glass Reflection Mask Factor, which appears to be broken. We’ve also added the cockpit_type=1 parameter to the cockpit.cfg but that hasn’t solved the issue.

Short of us having to revert to a single windshield object only, can you please offer any ideas or let us know whether this is being looked into?

Repro steps:

Load the Just Flight Fokker 28 into MSFS 2024 in takeoff state and set the time of day to night. The reflections will become evident.

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[SimbolFSReborn]

These reflections are a big problem.. and currently no way to control them..

Windshield reflection intensity not working

Version: 1.16.23 Frequency: Consistently Severity: Blocker Marketplace package name: NA Context: in flight Bug description: I am unable to limit the reflection of the interior windshield for an aircraft, not matter what I do, setting even a black texture for RGB on the Windshield material in 3DS results in no difference for the glareshield reflections inside the cockpit. This causes avionics to be always too relfective, outside of how it looks IRL, my plan was to set a RGB Mask to limit t…

We really need some solutions to allow us tone down or even disable them when necesery.

R.

[Hodgeheg4424]

Yes we went through a lot of trial and error to find their was no real solution. One thing I’ve been experimenting with is using a standard material in blend mode to simulate glass, however the results just don’t look great. It was a much better setup in MSFS2020.

[JimStewart]

I agree that these reflections are an extremely important issue, even with a typical single layer inner window. We field numerous complaints about this issue on various products, and have spent a ton of time to try and find ways to mitigate, without success.

A solution for controlling their intensity is desperately needed.

[Rotorhead135]

@FlyingRaccoon please have look on this topic.

greetings Jules