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Colors washed out

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When I look at my plane in the spot view, it always looks like it's too bright and the colors are washed out.  What settings can I use to chsange this?  Gnacinospacer.png

If this pic is supposed to show washed-out colors, I have no idea what you are talking about.

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1 hour ago, Gnacino said:

What settings can I use to chsange this? 

One quick solution is to change the time of the day

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2 hours ago, Gnacino said:

When I look at my plane in the spot view, it always looks like it's too bright and the colors are washed out.

Judging by the shadows this screengrab is taken on a sunny day around noon - what else would you expect?

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Since the start of this sim I’ve noticed the sun side of the plane looks over exposed. So I get the post 

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A faded color is a color that has bleached. On your image there are no colors that are faded.
You are mistaken, the colours are not faded but slightly overexposed. It is not the same thing.

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5 hours ago, micstatic said:

Since the start of this sim I’ve noticed the sun side of the plane looks over exposed. So I get the post 

With reference to the photo in this thread: it shows a large white fuselage in direct sunlight, and to me it looks exactly how I would expect it to look in real life. I just don't see the over-exposure.

Fly around mid day in June in the northern hemisphere or December in the Southern hemisphere.  That's when the lighting is best.

You van also adjust your colour, saturation, brightness and contrast in your monitor settings or graphics card settings.

Personally, since I have been using HDR, I've always found the clouds washed out and the ground too dark whatever I do.  

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It looks good here.

Make sure that your monitor brightness, contrast and gamma settings are OK with these tests: http://glennmessersmith.com/images/adjust.htm

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Takeoff and get to cruising altitude and go to external view. The over saturation has been a thing since day 1 in this sim. Color correction barely helps that. 

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1 hour ago, cianpars said:

Fly around mid day in June in the northern hemisphere or December in the Southern hemisphere.  That's when the lighting is best.

You van also adjust your colour, saturation, brightness and contrast in your monitor settings or graphics card settings.

Personally, since I have been using HDR, I've always found the clouds washed out and the ground too dark whatever I do.  

You need to use the windows HDR calibration tool.  HDR is amazing once you use that tool

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Just now, MrBitstFlyer said:

You van also adjust your colour, saturation, brightness and contrast in your monitor settings or graphics card settings.

That is a recipe for disaster.  Monitor must be calibrated to make sure these are accurate

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3 hours ago, cianpars said:

Fly around mid day in June in the northern hemisphere or December in the Southern hemisphere.  That's when the lighting is best.

 

Strangely that is when I find things look the worst, I get over saturated colours giving a cartoon like appearance. If I go to late afternoon/early morning things look far more realistic.

Perhaps its very dependent on hardware and setting?

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