Hello all,

I have no idea why this has suddenly occurred and have no real idea on what causes or fixes it.

This occurs in VR and 3d cockpits and the surrounding scenery.

The cockpit is so dark I cannot read the instruments and is occurring in both steam and normal editions.

Can somebody please point me to where I can brighten the whole thing up.

Regards

Tony

Either you are suffering hypoxia (there is a setting to disable this effect) by flying too high in an unpressurized aircraft or you have installed some 3rd party mod that messes with the lighting.

Cheers, Jan

 

Jan,

I know for certain sure it is not hypoxia. One you didn't think of was an illegal drug or summat that I was unaware of taking, smoking or injecting. ie a high, but a different kind  LOL

An addon is not feasible either, given that it has been a few months since my last add on which was the Phenom 300 (first day buy for me)

Any other ideas??

Regards

Tony

40 minutes ago, himmelhorse said:

Jan,

I know for certain sure it is not hypoxia.

He's talking about hypoxia modeling in X-Plane. If you fly at high altitude in an aircraft which is not pressurized (or with wrong pressurization settings), the cockpit and external views will darken and then go black. If it happens, try slewing the aircraft at low altitude (<10.000 ft) and see if the image reappears after a while.

addendum: the blackening (and reddening) effects are well worth experiencing in a jet in VR (grab the dmax3d typhoon http://www.dmax3d.com/dmax3d/eurofighter.html and pull some high speed positive/negative g's)

8 hours ago, himmelhorse said:

I know for certain sure it is not hypoxia.

I was struck with the same darkening views a while back and didn't thought this was, but yes it was indeed, XP11 hypoxia simulation being enabled and me forgetting about it!

4 hours ago, RXP said:

I was struck with the same darkening views a while back and didn't thought this was, but yes it was indeed, XP11 hypoxia simulation being enabled and me forgetting about it!

What altitude was that?

 

 @Les Parson Above 14,000ft or so IIRC, with the B58

Edited July 23, 20214 yr by RXP

Guys,

 Thanks for all these responses.

Whilst I took Janovs first response lightly (and incorrectly) I have no idea where to find the Hypoxia setting.  I still, however, do not believe it is that because the darkness starts from the initial load up of the aircraft, ie on the ground, cold and dark. It does not vary at any height and is constantly very dark.  Even at midday on a clear setting it is still very dark inside and outside all aircraft and airports.

So, whilst I am very aware of the effects of hypoxia with the gradual onset of effects, (and this is something I do not really want simulated) I am fairly sure that this is not what is happening. I am, however, very happy to explore this further if someone can point out where this setting exists.

Thanks again to you all for your responses.

Tony

 

1 hour ago, himmelhorse said:

I am fairly sure that this is not what is happening. I am, however, very happy to explore this further if someone can point out where this setting exists.

I have had this on multiple occasions, the cockpit goes normal, then during midflight the cockpit's contrast would plummet. The time wouldn't change nor the weather, the cockpit ambience would just go dark. 

There was a solution I think where you needed the dataref editor and change some settings. However AFAIK it would just straight out disable the shadows for your aircraft. I think it's been here since 11.20 but I'm hoping that the next generation lighting technology will finally help with the issue.

9 hours ago, himmelhorse said:

starts from the initial load up of the aircraft

I would suggest deleting your preferences in this case. It may be that some experimentation with add-ons or such has permanently damaged an artref setting:

https://developer.x-plane.com/2016/11/you-dont-need-to-reinstall-x-plane-to-fix-it/

I agree with @Janov that it is worth deleting your 'preferences' folder.  When a lot of us were helping with the beta releases before 11.50, it became almost a routine thing to do to clear out the accumulated data, some of which would interfere with the new loading of the sim.  You can't do any harm - re-booting X-plane will recreate the folder and all that it needs.

Ref turning hypoxia, etc off, you will find the tick box in the 'General' page of the Settings, bottom left:

Edited July 24, 20214 yr by AJZip

Other places to check:

Graphics card settings - gamma/color correction

did you install reshade? that can mess with colors/brightness/contrast.

Also worth testing if none of those help taking a screenshot and checking the screenshot on another device - helped someone a year or two back that was actually a faulty cable - screenshots looked fine everywhere except the monitor they were taken on.

Edited July 24, 20214 yr by mSparks