41 minutes ago, Andreas Stangenes said:

The A320 at night seems to have some sort of hidden dome lighting that lights up the cockpit making it impossible to get it really dark. The beacon shines through the floor, and the wing lights actually light up the cockpit instead of outside 😄 Seems the winglights are underneath the cockpit pointing upwards instead of straight ahead/out on the wings. 

Agree, this really needs fixing. I find it particularly annoying when you lower the gear and it gets extremely bright all of a sudden. I guess it‘s the nose wheel lights that shine through the fuselage. I prefer it as dark as possible on the final so I can focus on the runway ahead, so this is rather distracting. Also agree about the landing lights.

I'm sure I glanced at a thread the other day that had a fix for the TBM Garmins - allowing them to be dimmed at night. 

 

Interim solution.......I have not found the correct control code for this (to assign it to a switch) but in the Cessna 172, at the lower right from the yoke there is a rotating switch that has inner and outer bands.  one of them (the outer) is "panel light" -- rotate that with the mouse and click to turn them up.  Also, the glare shield light light up the whole panel.

Edited September 13, 20205 yr by carlhartmann
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I noticed these "dome lights" as well. It drove me crazy.. Finally I think this appears to happens with the taxi lights on. As well on the overhead panel, right side, you have a selector for the dome light. Worked for me. Without this, it's really hard to do a confortable landing.

Hope it helps

With my first experience with FS in about 20 years, this was the 1st thing that leapt out at me. As I made my approach (C152) the bright daylight outside gave a realistic view, But as I glanced to the instruments to check my airspeed, etc. I could read absolutely nothing. The panel was seriously dim - I could make out the instruments and approximate needle positions in some cases, but not accurately.

When I went to one of my custom views that shows more of the panel, I could read everything clearly, as it brightened right up, but now I couldn't see the runway!

This really needs to be fixed, probably with separate settings for panel and exterior brightness, or a panel brightness that is much, much brighter.

32 minutes ago, RandallR said:

With my first experience with FS in about 20 years, this was the 1st thing that leapt out at me. As I made my approach (C152) the bright daylight outside gave a realistic view, But as I glanced to the instruments to check my airspeed, etc. I could read absolutely nothing. The panel was seriously dim - I could make out the instruments and approximate needle positions in some cases, but not accurately.

When I went to one of my custom views that shows more of the panel, I could read everything clearly, as it brightened right up, but now I couldn't see the runway!

This really needs to be fixed, probably with separate settings for panel and exterior brightness, or a panel brightness that is much, much brighter.

Sums up my experience as well!

1 hour ago, RandallR said:

With my first experience with FS in about 20 years, this was the 1st thing that leapt out at me. As I made my approach (C152) the bright daylight outside gave a realistic view, But as I glanced to the instruments to check my airspeed, etc. I could read absolutely nothing. The panel was seriously dim - I could make out the instruments and approximate needle positions in some cases, but not accurately.

When I went to one of my custom views that shows more of the panel, I could read everything clearly, as it brightened right up, but now I couldn't see the runway!

This really needs to be fixed, probably with separate settings for panel and exterior brightness, or a panel brightness that is much, much brighter.

I could not agree with you more. The panel(s) & gauges are much, much too dark... virtually illegible unless zoomed wayyy in. Sure, zooming is great, I totally get that, but it should not be an absolute necessity simply to read the gauges with *moderate* ease.

Alt+L turns on the flashlight.

Understood - nice extra, and maybe we can use it in the current situation.  I'll give it a try.

However, the only time I've ever used a flashlight in the real world was during an actual night emergency.  😕

On 8/26/2020 at 5:40 AM, jpe828 said:

I cannot find a way to dim the G3000 in the TBM at night. It is ridiculously bright... not even useable in any realistic way. 

You should follow this guy

For now he already made some very nice improvements to the G1000. Next he will work on the G3000, as you can see on his githu page.

https://github.com/Working-Title-MSFS-Mods/fspackages

There is this oddity where the dash is very dark while you look outside but if you look down directly at the gauges with trackir/hat/whatever they are suddenly brighter and more readable.

I just turn the panel lights on,  even in day.

55 minutes ago, EDDB2020 said:

You should follow this guy

For now he already made some very nice improvements to the G1000. Next he will work on the G3000, as you can see on his githu page.

https://github.com/Working-Title-MSFS-Mods/fspackages

Yes, long solved... i have lots of mods now lol including dimmable G3000, 1000 etc. 

Strange! I am not seeing this at all.  The instruments are slightly darker yes whilst looking outside, but not virtually unreadable as some people are saying, and they do brighten when you move the view down on to them. This is the eye adaptation effect.

If you are struggling with your personal set up, maybe you can try experementing with the eye adaptation effect in settings, or the HDR effect.  

It could also be due to peoples personal brightness and contrast settings on the monitor and desktop, or even the monitor HDR setting.

There are many youtube videos showing outside views whilst having decent instrument brightness (in the Cub etc.), so it doesn't seem to be a widespread problem, which tends to indicate personal settings on the desktop or monitor. Or If you dont like the eye adaptation and HDR effects, maybe turn them off. 👍

Yes, the panel brightens as the view comes down, but not until I can't see the runway. I will attempt to adapt the settings to see if the panel can be improved - also, it may be just this aircraft.

My monitor is set to absolute levels by my Spyder sensor and software, which measures the ambient light of my environment and the unique signature of my display so that everything from color temperature to contrast is correct and allows for proper editing and matching of photographic images.  Any adjustment or correction will have to come from the sim.

I am doing some potentiometer switches with my Arduino (to simulate game controller/joystick to PC) to make some more control with (cool) buttons and these switches. I tried to find some solution to add more brightness with switch, but there is only some toggle and set 0/1 options. I can bind one button to toggle lights on, but i can't increase/decrease the brightness, because there isn't any way to bind axis. Only way is to scroll with mouse, and I don't like to use it, if I can use some other better ways. I bet simulator geeks want this to work.

List of bindable interior lights:

• Cabin lights off
• Cabin lights on
• Set cabin lights
• Toggle flashlight
• Glareshield lights off
• Glareshield lights on
• Set glareshield lights
• Toggle glareshield lights
• Decrease light potentiometer
• Increase light potentiometer
• Panel lights off
• Panel lights on
• Set panel lights
• Pedestal lights off
• Pedestal lights on
• Toggle pedestal lights
• Toggle cabin lights

Sorry for long list. Does someone know what increase/decrease light potentiometer does? I tried, but nothing happens. 

I tried in our workplace where we have bigger setup for flightsim to bind this same thing to Logitech G Instrument Panel's rotary switch with spad.neXt software (with that you can bind almost anything to those Logitech G/Saitek products). With that we changed the value for that command via SimConnect and we saw that the value changed (previewing with that spad.neXt), but it didn't change the brightness at game. At home i'm geeking these own switches with Arduino. Nothing works 🙂

Btw, Is there any good way to suggest features for MFS? Maybe in their own forum?