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How to create night lighting?

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SpazSinbad:
How to create a night landing? Do one. :-)  In the video at the link I don't see the ball until 'at the ramp'. WT? Perhaps I can mess with the movie by editing it to lighten it to see the carrier at a distance but then it would not be a night landing? My guess is that the movie has been 'darkened' in post production to give the night effect. Yes it may have been made at night but then darkened IMHO. Whatever. It is only an FSX movie after all. Already we know post production effects have been added. There are tricksters out there (no offence to movie maker). After all movie making is in and of itself mere trickery.

Similarly in the day approach in second part of movie I cannot see the AoA indexer at all because once again the lighting is too dark. So I'll go away now and mess with the .MP4 (high quality version) of this movie to see what I can see. Try messing with your monitor controls to darken up what you see so that you don't have to use fog at night.

SpazSinbad:
Screenshot from the movie above has been 'lightened' in MS Movie Maker 5 times so it is going to look odd. The screengrab shows the near instant that any other item appears in the approach - which in this case are the lights on top of the island. Otherwise nothing is seen until a millisecond later the mirror appears 'at the ramp'. I don't believe anyone can fly a visual approach seeing the mirror only 'at the ramp'. Whatever.

Also I note that once the AoA Indexer can be seen during the day approach later (which is far too short a straightaway to be practical) the indexer is fast with once again 'at the ramp' getting to on speed being below the glideslope. My guess is that this chap did a visual 'spot the deck' approach. Whatever.

I'm not really criticising anything but trying to see how the movie was made. It is effective - especially the night approach. WOW!   ;D  Heart Thumping stuff indeed.

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