December 2, 20223 yr I really enjoy using Enhanced Atmospherics (EA) in P3dv5.3, but I just may have to shut it off and deal with the visuals that normally seem rather unrealistic and bright to me. Why? Well, the planes' cockpits are so very dark and the overall look of the sim is pretty dark. Adjusting monitor brightness or brightness in the sim is not the answer because it tends to "wash out" cloud lines and other details. Have any of you solved the somewhat old problem of being able to employ EA and yet be able to see the cockpit clearly and the outside environment in realistic shades of color? Stan
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December 2, 20223 yr Commercial Member 26 minutes ago, spilok said: EA and yet be able to see the cockpit clearly and the outside environment in realistic shades of color? Are you try untick internal vehicle shadows ( cast and receive ) ?
December 3, 20223 yr Disable HDR. I know you can't do that in the UI, so you will have to edit P3D.cfg. First, enable EA and close P3D. Then, in P3D.cfg, look for the line that says HDR=1 and change it to HDR=0. Save the cfg, start P3D and enjoy. You'll get the best of both worlds. Edited December 3, 20223 yr by Luis Hernandez Best regards,Luis Hernández Main rig: self built, AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D (with SMT off and CO -50 mV), 2x16 GB DDR4-3200 RAM, Nvidia RTX 5060Ti 16GB, 256 GB M.2 SSD (OS+apps) + 2x1 TB SATA III SSD (sims) + 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD (storage), ID-Cooling SE-224-XTS air cooler, Viewsonic VX2458-MHD 1920x1080@120-144 Hz (G-sync compatible), Windows 11. Running P3D v5.4 (with v4.5 scenery objects as an additional library, just in case), FSX-SE, MSFS2020, MSFS2024 and even FS9! Lossless Scaling for all my sims. What a godsend...Mobile rig: ASUS Zenbook UM425QA (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H APU @3.2 GHz and boost disabled, 1 TB M.2 SSD, 16 GB RAM, Windows 11 Pro). Running FS9 there .VKB Gladiator NXT Premium Left + GNX THQ as primary controllers. Xbox Series X|S wireless controller as standby/mobile.
December 3, 20223 yr I have HDR off, with AutoExposure on. I can do this in SimStarter but you will have to do this ion the cfg manually if you don't have the app. Much brighter in the cockpit.
December 3, 20223 yr Commercial Member 16 hours ago, spilok said: I really enjoy using Enhanced Atmospherics (EA) in P3dv5.3, but I just may have to shut it off and deal with the visuals that normally seem rather unrealistic and bright to me. Why? Well, the planes' cockpits are so very dark and the overall look of the sim is pretty dark. Adjusting monitor brightness or brightness in the sim is not the answer because it tends to "wash out" cloud lines and other details. Have any of you solved the somewhat old problem of being able to employ EA and yet be able to see the cockpit clearly and the outside environment in realistic shades of color? Stan I know the pain. For as long as I've been using v5, I've gone through countless payware shader programs that marginally have made cockpits brighter, tweaks, and other suggested tricks to no avail. It just does not look realistic to me. I can (sort of) get something that's somewhat useable by turning off cockpit shadows and cranking HDR brightness all the way up. If you find a solution that works for you, by all means, please share it. Kyle Weber (Private Pilot, ASEL; Flight Test Engineer)Check out my repaints and downloads, all right here on AVSIM
December 3, 20223 yr 27 minutes ago, CaptKornDog said: If you find a solution that works for you, by all means, please share it. As somebody else mentioned earlier, Chaseplane has an 'onboard brightness' slider in the camera controls and that solves the dark cockpit issue for me.
December 3, 20223 yr Commercial Member 18 minutes ago, simfan1983 said: As somebody else mentioned earlier, Chaseplane has an 'onboard brightness' slider in the camera controls and that solves the dark cockpit issue for me. For me when I tried that previously, that seemed to change the brightness of the entire scene, and aircraft; not just solely the cockpit. Is that what it's supposed to do? Kyle Weber (Private Pilot, ASEL; Flight Test Engineer)Check out my repaints and downloads, all right here on AVSIM
December 3, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, CaptKornDog said: For me when I tried that previously, that seemed to change the brightness of the entire scene, and aircraft; not just solely the cockpit. Is that what it's supposed to do? I don't think so, I'm in a flight now moving it up and down and it just adjusts the cockpit lighting. I'm using EA, HDR but no volumetric clouds and no addon shaders.
December 3, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, CaptKornDog said: For me when I tried that previously, that seemed to change the brightness of the entire scene, and aircraft; not just solely the cockpit. Is that what it's supposed to do? I just checked and confirm that entire scene is changed 😞 Gérard
December 3, 20223 yr 17 minutes ago, gaab said: I just checked and confirm that entire scene is changed I'm trying at night and can confirm that it is changing the whole scene now. Not sure if there is a way around this with HDR / auto exposure and/or the p3d.cfg settings but I agree it is annoying.
December 3, 20223 yr Commercial Member 45 minutes ago, gaab said: I just checked and confirm that entire scene is changed 😞 Gérard Yes that’s definitely my experience as well. Kyle Weber (Private Pilot, ASEL; Flight Test Engineer)Check out my repaints and downloads, all right here on AVSIM
December 3, 20223 yr One simple solution. Go back to P3DV4.3🙂 I keep both sims installed. Kind of nice sometimes to use addons that just can't Geha with version five due to elevation issues etc. I guess everything in life seems to be a tradeoff. 😒 Vic green
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