Texturing Improvements (Exterior) idea … Light Bulbs

I saw the topic of … Texturing Improvements (Exterior) … for the upcoming release(s) and wanted to provide some feedback on that.

MSFS does push the 3D modeling and rendering limits closer to … "maximum realism".

The switch to 8K textures for the Osprey was a great improvement for details like the "No step" labels etc. But whenever I look at the "Showcase cam - External 1" and look at the nacelle …

… there are two things that (at a 4K screen) stand out to me as "room for improvement":

• The "Jet Intake" triangle … has visible pixelation
• The green light … looks … hmm … "cartoonish"? (for lack of a better word)

The light has very sharp color edges to the nacelle, the color is very "flat" and the light lacks any level of detail.

I was not able to find really good images of the real Osprey lights … but at least they seem to consist of two parts and they have some translucency.

Many other MSFS aircraft seem to focus a lot on the light (bulb) modeling … perhaps because those objects do attract viewer attention. Here is one example from the H145 … I can see the cover glass, the PCBs and the LEDs:

I do not know how complicated such changes are … but IMHO they greatly add to realism.