Lightning Bolts do not appear if they are more than 64 blocks away from the player. This makes it so in order to see the actual lightning bolt you must be close to it. I have seen lightning bolts strike further away then this in previous versions with it still rendering.
UPDATE: In 15w35b (and possibly 15w35a, I haven't checked that version) the distance seems to have been increased to about 95 blocks.
Recreate this by using this command:
/summon LightningBolt ~65 ~ ~
and look in the positive X direction.
Or if you are running 15w35b or higher:
/summon LightningBolt ~96 ~ ~
The image below shows this working correctly in version 1.6.4
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Can confirm. They used to render much mre further in previous versions.
Now you need to be really really close to see the lightning.
(btw the lightning bold rendering is also affected. It will render behind some objects like water)
Confirmed for 1.8 pre-release 3. Makes it a bit tougher to hunt for charged creepers if you can't see where lightning hit just 4 chunks away.
I just tested. This issue is not present in 1.10.2 or 16w42a. I can tell you, the render distance for lightning is dependent on the render distance of the player. In other words the bug is fixed and should be marked resolved.
For me lightning still dissapears few chunks away from it, that's on 12-16 chunks render distance. How is it fixed when it is present (at least for me)? It is not supposed to dissapear like that, there's no purpose for it.
Right now it is fixed as I said in my previous comment. I tested on plain vanilla 1.10 and 16w42a with no rendering issues. The reason you are only seeing lightning no more than 95 blocks away is because you are on render distance 12. At that render distance lightning will only render 95 blocks away at most. As you increase the render distance from 12 (95 block max) I observed that at 14 chunks the lightning will render out to 111 blocks and at 16 chunks renders up to 127 blocks away. This pattern continues up to a maximum of 159 blocks. This confirms this to be resolved as the view distance of lightning is based upon render distance.
It depends on render distance. But lightning bolt render distance is smaller than set in video settings.
Added an image of lightning rendering correctly in version 1.6.4