Home Fries Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 (edited) Tested in 2.5.3.21708: Currently, the display exports work well in day mode, but when switching to night mode the DDI exports are so dim as to be unreadable. The AMPCD seems to have the opposite problem right now, with the map export working better than the in-game display, but the text cannot be seen over the moving map. Here are some screenshots to demonstrate the issue. Day displays (normal): Night displays (unreadable): The in-game night displays look fine at night (something the screenshots don't show), but the exports are still unreadable. The only way these night DDI exports would be useful is if we had a completely darkened room while flying a night mission. While waiting for this to be fixed, I would be happy with the export displays defaulting to day regardless of the day/night setting on the screen. Edited September 21, 2018 by Home Fries -Home Fries My DCS Files and Skins My DCS TARGET Profile for Cougar or Warthog and MFDs F-14B LANTIRN Guide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Home Fries Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 Can we get this posted in the Bugs section please? -Home Fries My DCS Files and Skins My DCS TARGET Profile for Cougar or Warthog and MFDs F-14B LANTIRN Guide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perka Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 (edited) I've got the the same bug : when switching to night mode the DDI exports are so dim as to be unreadable, exactly as your screens with the current version (OB 2.5.5.35461). Do you find a way to fix bug ? Edited September 14, 2019 by Perka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTRMcrew Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 I don't understand where the bug lies? Night mode is for night... when it's dark (I'm not being sarcastic). I just did a night ops in the hornet and it was very dark out so having night mode on the ddi's helped with the night vision. edit: however, if your room is "lit up/ bright/ not dark" yes night mode won't "do" as it's too dim. But I think it's modeled correctly to the aircraft and not to us using it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Home Fries Posted October 29, 2019 Author Share Posted October 29, 2019 The bug is not the displays, but the exports. Night mode on the screen is readable (and works for night), but the exports are completely unreadable. -Home Fries My DCS Files and Skins My DCS TARGET Profile for Cougar or Warthog and MFDs F-14B LANTIRN Guide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTRMcrew Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Roger that, I did notice the word "export" in the title but I plead ignorant and have no idea what that is... I'll see myself out. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Home Fries Posted November 1, 2019 Author Share Posted November 1, 2019 Roger that, I did notice the word "export" in the title but I plead ignorant and have no idea what that is... I'll see myself out. :) No sweat. Thanks for bumping the thread -Home Fries My DCS Files and Skins My DCS TARGET Profile for Cougar or Warthog and MFDs F-14B LANTIRN Guide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bankler Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 +1 Having the exact same problem with my MFD exports. Bankler's CASE 1 Recovery Trainer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bankler Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 Any comment from ED about this? Is it possible to solve? Bankler's CASE 1 Recovery Trainer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmedges Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Has this been resolved? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Allied Air Command Website | Allied Air Command Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmedges Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Can we get it even looked at? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Allied Air Command Website | Allied Air Command Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VirusAM Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Has this been resolved? No it seems that the issue is still present R7-5800X3D 64GB RTX-4090 LG-38GN950 Valve Index VPForce Rhino FFB, Virpil F-14 (VFX) Grip, Virpil Alpha Grip, Virpil CM3 Throttle + Control Panel 2, Winwing Orion (Skywalker) Pedals, Razer Tartarus V2 SpeedMaster Flight Seat, JetSeat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason-118 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Hi guys, I've just set up external mfd exports myself on a second monitor. At first, I thought maybe my 2nd screen brightness was just poor, but after switching between cockpit and external views something renders differently with them? Like everyone else in this post the night setting is pretty much unusable, it's so dark. The link below shows the brightness when views are switched. Is this an F-18 bug or a DCS Engine bug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ct0r0z Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 I've got the same issue. Switching the MFD's to Night Mode gets super faded images in my second monitor where I export the MFD's to. Day mode works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReflexArc Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 There's some sort of post-processing added to the in-game MFD's ever since they did some lighting changes. Which leads to bloom and night time blindness (realistically) if you try to leave the MFD's on the day setting during night missions (so that you can see stuff on the exported views.) Member of TAW-North America. Practices Thursdays at 2045 Eastern. Missions Sundays at 1945 Eastern. F/A-18C | A-10C | AV-8B | M2000C | Huey | KA-50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scaley Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 There was a bug thread on this that was marked as "Reported" but I now can't find it. The last patch did make some changes that appeared to slightly improve things but there is still a significant difference between the main viewport DDIs and the exported ones. At least now the brightness doesn't appear to change when the main view is switched between internal and external views. It looks to me like the core of the issue is that some post-processing happens to the main viewport images, such as to make them appear relatively very bright at night, and this post-processing is not applied to the exported images. Because of this sometimes the brightness matches quite well, but sometimes it doesn't, and that depends on the ambient light level in the sim. Two possible fixes would be: 1 - independent brightness control for exported DDIs/AMPCD, AND make them not affected by the cockpit brightness controls OR 2 - make them affected by the post processing the same way the cockpit ones are. Given that the old bug thread appears to have disappeared I'ma bit concerned that ED think they have fixed this with the last update. 476th vFighter Group Main Page -- YouTube -- Discord Scaley AV YouTube - More videos from the 476th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elphaba Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 I use Helios, and I rely on exports and they're so dim and useless it's almost pointless using Helios - that's money down the drain. Thanks ED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scaley Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Is anyone aware of a way of getting this thread moved to the main bugs forum so someone from ED might see it. 476th vFighter Group Main Page -- YouTube -- Discord Scaley AV YouTube - More videos from the 476th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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