This has been ticking me off for awhile. FSX IS SO BRIGHT AT NIGHT. Even with phitt injection tool, the moon still shines EVERYTHING so bright, it's rediculous!!!!

 

Maybe there is some ENB setting or something? Mod? Anything....

 

During the night in real life, unless you are landing at a big airport, you cant even see the WING. Let alone the GROUND.

 

Anybody?

Have you tried SweetFSX? I use it and it certainly makes the night dark.

SweetFSX or SweetFX?

FWIW....... Back in the days when FSX was released, and those big heavy CRT monitors were more the norm, FSX could be very black on a moonless night. Just as in real life, I could never see the rising mountain terrain. With the flatscreens, it's no longer the case. I'd be interested in any addon also.

 

L.Adamson

SweetFSX or SweetFX?

 

Ooops. SweetFX, sorry.

For what it's worth, I'm getting very dark nights with my monitor adjusted properly.

 

This is post I made on another forum:

 

I use a freeware utility called Gamma Panel to adjust the gamma on the fly. I have one setting for normal flight (and everything else, including photo editing) and another for night flying with a slightly higher gamma. I switch between these with a hot-key combination. I've got several additional gamma settings from very dark to very bright for those times that you need to see things a different way, and there are a couple of settings between the two mentioned above so I can get some fine adjustment during dusk and dawn flights.

 

Normal setting is gamma 1.0, which has also been adjusted and tweaked in my monitor and video driver software to give the closest gamma to 2.2 that I can get. Night flying setting is gamma 1.3. Other settings range from 0.9 to 1.75. The intermediate settings between normal and night are 1.13 and 1.17 and I'll occasionally use 1.2, although you'll have to edit the .ini file to get these precise numbers.

 

http://www.majorgeek...anel_d2796.html

 

The best gamma adjustment page I've found is at

 

http://www.photoscie...co.uk/Gamma.htm

 

Hook

 

Getting the black level (brightness), contrast and gamma adjusted properly for your monitor is very important and not always easy. I used settings on both my monitor and video driver to get as close as possible, and some of the settings were a surprisingly long way off from the defaults. But in the end, the gamma test in the link above works properly for all three test levels at the center of the screen, less so as you move away from the center.

 

You'll know you've got the adjustment correct when you load a pic with lots of skin tones and both shadows and highlights look good.

 

Hook

 

PS. As LAdamson said above, it was a lot easier with a CRT. I miss my professional grade 21" CRT, with the constant gamma at all points on the screen. Unfortunately, as they age, they go out of focus requiring monitor contrast to be reduced. Assuming you can still buy one (for photo editing, for example); I can't find anyone selling new ones.

 

H.

For what it's worth, I'm getting very dark nights with my monitor adjusted properly.

 

This is post I made on another forum:

 

 

 

Getting the black level (brightness), contrast and gamma adjusted properly for your monitor is very important and not always easy. I used settings on both my monitor and video driver to get as close as possible, and some of the settings were a surprisingly long way off from the defaults. But in the end, the gamma test in the link above works properly for all three test levels at the center of the screen, less so as you move away from the center.

 

You'll know you've got the adjustment correct when you load a pic with lots of skin tones and both shadows and highlights look good.

 

Hook

 

PS. As LAdamson said above, it was a lot easier with a CRT. I miss my professional grade 21" CRT, with the constant gamma at all points on the screen. Unfortunately, as they age, they go out of focus requiring monitor contrast to be reduced. Assuming you can still buy one (for photo editing, for example); I can't find anyone selling new ones.

 

H.

 

I actually have been doing that, with FXAA's injection tool. I did manage to up the "Fog", and it really darkened things.

Try this in FSX.CFG, you have noithing to loose.

 

[GRAPHICS]

 

DAY_THRESHOLD=x

 

NIGHT_THRESHOLD=x

 

 

 

acceptible values for x are 0 to 65535.

 

Defaults:

 

DAY: 32768

 

NIGHT: 4096

 

These represent the amount of 'ambient' light at the ends of the day/night blend threshold. Zero is perfect dark, 65535 is full day sun at noon in the summer.

Turn your monitor brightness and contrast way down

The FXAA injector tool is giving me a pretty believable darkness at night time.

Monitor contrast should be set as high as possible without looking garish.

 

My monitor brightness is 0, contrast is 70.

 

In the Catalyst Control Center:

 

Gamma 1.3, range is 0.5 to 3.5

Brightness and contrast at default.

 

Hook

Try this in FSX.CFG, you have noithing to loose.

 

[GRAPHICS]

 

DAY_THRESHOLD=x

 

NIGHT_THRESHOLD=x

 

 

 

acceptible values for x are 0 to 65535.

 

Defaults:

 

DAY: 32768

 

NIGHT: 4096

 

These represent the amount of 'ambient' light at the ends of the day/night blend threshold. Zero is perfect dark, 65535 is full day sun at noon in the summer.

 

Does this include the brightness of the ground textures in the cities? Like Roads.. etc.

 

I want those to stay bright!

Another thing to consider:

 

When I fly a night flight in FSX and it's night in real life, I do it with all the lights off and a red LED illuminating the keyboard. If it's daylight out, the screen needs to be brighter to compensate. If you're in a brightly lit office environment, you'll need an even brighter screen.

 

Gamma Panel allows you to get the correct lighting on the fly with a key combination.

 

Hook

Don't forget about the DIGITAL VIBRANCE setting on the Nvidia Control Panel. I have it set to +70% and my night time results look great. It's easy to set and requires no restarts!

What else does this digital vibrance do?