Turning ON Night Lighting "earlier"

[Timberleaf]

Is there a way to turn night lighting effects of the scenery (not the aircraft) on earlier than the default sunrise / sunset? P3D allowed for a GRAPHICS edit to the CFG by adding a few lines which allowed for tweaking how soon the lights turned on before dusk, and how soon the lights turned off after sunrise:

 

DAY_THRESHOLD=55000

NIGHT_THRESHOLD=4096

 

I don’t see how this would work for MSFS 2020. But, any info / input would be appreciated. Thanks.

Edited September 10, 2020 by Timberleaf
Clarity

[Kapitan]

I believe on the sim is more realistic than P3D cause when you turn lights on, lights are on.

Inhave switched cockpit lights in a rainy day at midday and could notice lights in cockpit

 

of course if there is too much sunlight you wont

notice perhaps, but they are on

[Timberleaf]

I was referencing the scenery night lighting, not the aircraft lighting. I could add a CFG edit, as above, to cause the default sunset / sunrise night lighting to come on earlier before sunset, and stay on later after sunrise.

 

I don't know if that can be done with MSFS 2020.

[Kapitan]

I was referencing the scenery night lighting, not the aircraft lighting. I could add a CFG edit, as above, to cause the default sunset / sunrise night lighting to come on earlier before sunset, and stay on later after sunrise.

 

I don't know if that can be done with MSFS 2020.

 

oh i appologize, yes i see your point, im sure theres is a way since the files do have the same parameteres that can be edited thru +Notepad

[Timberleaf]

Thanks. Of course, before posting this, I edited the MFSF cfg with the above. I saw NO differences at all. Hence the question.

[Kapitan]

Its not in msfs cfg, its another file that handles this.

Like in Vegetation file to reduce the size of trees

 

10-asobo_species.xml under fs-base\vegetation directory.

 

so there must be a specific file for the lights

[Timberleaf]

I have looked. I can't find anything remotely related to this in the files; XML, CFG, etc. I hope it isn't hard coded and cannot be edited. I also hope someone finds this.