Hi all!

Can someone help me to fix the night lighting. When using HDR it goes tooo dark. If I turn off HDR I got better results.

Thanks

Edited February 18, 20242 yr by juaness

Hi there,

You can try to increase the brightness value in HDR settings. Other than that there's not much you can do other than using a shader program like Envshade or RDshade.

Hi juaness! I'm on P3Dv4.5 so it's probably not the same brightness / lighting as P3Dv5, but I use a tweak because I think both day and night is too dark in my sim with HDR brightness set to 1.000000. However, if you think the daytime view is not to dark in your sim, then the following tweak is useless to you. I use it to make all my too-dark-views brighter, such as Virtual Cockpit and all the outside views. Let's say I want a brighter VC. Then I open cameras.cfg and find "Title = Virtual Cockpit". At the end of that section, I add this line:
LightAmplification=1.25

I guess I then get 25% brighter view both day and night. I also add the LightAmplification=1.25 line in the views section for each addon aircraft in aircraft.cfg if I think the views are too dark. This might work for you, or it might not. If you don't like it, you can try another value better suited for P3Dv5 and your screen, or revert back to the original cameras.cfg / views. Or perhaps it doesn't work at all in P3Dv5? I'm quite happy with my sim lighting now, so I don't want to change a thing. I don't know for sure if moving the HDR brightness slider to the right would produce the same result, as kmax59 suggests. If so, then the tweak is worthless, but I believe I tested this years ago and imagined the tweak to be better.

6 hours ago, juaness said:

Hi all!

Can someone help me to fix the night lighting. When using HDR it goes tooo dark. If I turn off HDR I got better results.

Thanks

On those dark nights, or heavily overcast days I simply turn on auto exposure. Lightens everything just enough to see.

3 hours ago, avusm575 said:

Hi juaness! I'm on P3Dv4.5 so it's probably not the same brightness / lighting as P3Dv5, but I use a tweak because I think both day and night is too dark in my sim with HDR brightness set to 1.000000. However, if you think the daytime view is not to dark in your sim, then the following tweak is useless to you. I use it to make all my too-dark-views brighter, such as Virtual Cockpit and all the outside views. Let's say I want a brighter VC. Then I open cameras.cfg and find "Title = Virtual Cockpit". At the end of that section, I add this line:
LightAmplification=1.25

I guess I then get 25% brighter view both day and night. I also add the LightAmplification=1.25 line in the views section for each addon aircraft in aircraft.cfg if I think the views are too dark. This might work for you, or it might not. If you don't like it, you can try another value better suited for P3Dv5 and your screen, or revert back to the original cameras.cfg / views. Or perhaps it doesn't work at all in P3Dv5? I'm quite happy with my sim lighting now, so I don't want to change a thing. I don't know for sure if moving the HDR brightness slider to the right would produce the same result, as kmax59 suggests. If so, then the tweak is worthless, but I believe I tested this years ago and imagined the tweak to be better.

Thanks, I’ll give a try

6 hours ago, kmax59 said:

Hi there,

You can try to increase the brightness value in HDR settings. Other than that there's not much you can do other than using a shader program like Envshade or RDshade.

I’m using both ENVDIR and RDshade

Another thing to look at are your monitor settings.  I have two HDR settings on mine.