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Colors washed out

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I've calibrated my colors pretty well.  Most of the sim looks nice.  It's literally just viewing the aircraft itself from the outside on the sun side.  It's way too much saturation on the plane itself. 

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13 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

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

Do this. 

This debate reminds me of an earlier one several years ago when MSFS2020 was new. The issue then was whether the clouds in MSFS were rendered sufficiently true-to-life. One simmer commented that he had just looked at the clouds outside in the real world, and they looked very unrealistic! This might well apply to the current thread -- look outside your house on a bright sunny day and see if the colors are washed out!

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Looks like half of us feel that the colors are washed out, the other half that they're oversaturated. Given the random variations in monitor calibration out there, I guess that FS2020 has the color rendition about right.

With regard to the HDR calibration, I assume that we're only referring to those individuals who have HDR monitors and that they have turned on the Windows and FS2020 HDR functions. I purchased such a monitor about a year ago, and when I turned on HDR in FS2020, I was amazed by the result. Totally worth the cost/effort.

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Some of you understand the issue and most of you don't.  This is a metal surface with paint on the livery.  In this case, Amercan livery is grey, not white as seen in the pic.  There should be some shine to it, not as much as the wings cause they are bare metal, but there should be still some reflection on the grey paint.  So I don't know if it's a texture issue or a color issue.

Gnacino

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57 minutes ago, Gnacino said:

...In this case, Amercan livery is grey, not white as seen in the pic...

Well this just demonstrates part of the problem.  The American livery definitely does look light grey to me in the pic, definitely not white.  And it will look brighter due to the time of day.

This has to be a monitor calibration issue I think.  Either that or it really is just individual differences in colour perception.

If you look at the last tail stripe down below the tail-plane, the last stripe is white and there is a definite difference between that and the grey fuselage (for me).

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5 hours ago, Gnacino said:

Some of you understand the issue and most of you don't.  This is a metal surface with paint on the livery.  In this case, Amercan livery is grey, not white as seen in the pic.  There should be some shine to it, not as much as the wings cause they are bare metal, but there should be still some reflection on the grey paint.  So I don't know if it's a texture issue or a color issue.

Gnacino

I will gladly take your word for it -- that it's an issue for you. For me, it isn't. The pic and the sim in general do not look over-exposed to my eyes. This is a subjective situation to which we all respond differently, and we would do well to leave it at that.

9 hours ago, Gnacino said:

Some of you understand the issue and most of you don't.  This is a metal surface with paint on the livery.  In this case, Amercan livery is grey, not white as seen in the pic.  There should be some shine to it, not as much as the wings cause they are bare metal, but there should be still some reflection on the grey paint.  So I don't know if it's a texture issue or a color issue.

Gnacino

Grey like these? To me it seems that, when exposed to direct sunlight, this livery looks whitish on the top of the fuselage.

IMHO the representation is correct.

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