[NO BUG] red and green brightness swapped on NVG

[riojax]

I noticed that when you uses the green hud or screen the NVG is a lot less sensitive that when you change it to red. It's supposed to work on the opposite way. This is also noticeable in the white and red flood lights.

 

Also the red instrument and console lights are too sensible to the NVG.

 

I'm not sure that this is a problem related to the F-14 or all ED modules on general but i don't have the means to know it.

 

I attached screenshots showing this behaviour.

 

Thank you on advance,

Regards.

Edited April 14, 2019 by IronMike

[DeMonteur]

Its the drawback of NVG systems

 

As far as I know NVG is more sensitive to all other colors except greenish. This is exactly why NVG compatible cockpit have a specific green lightning like F-18, A-10.

[riojax]

As far as I know NVG is more sensitive to all other colors except greenish. This is exactly why NVG compatible cockpit have a specific green lightning like F-18, A-10.

 

 

Interesting, it's true that russians uses NUV lighting for night operations because the intensifiers are more sensible to low frequencies, for this the IR and NIR lights are brigther than it must be in reallity. I never used a NVG device in the F-14 cockpit but i doubt that the lighting was too powerfull in IR and NIR to be too bright on NVG, think that the light intensity in the HUD using the red filter is attenuated.

 

Can any real F-14 pilot shed light on this?

Edited April 5, 2019 by riojax
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[riojax]

I tested the A-10 night amber hud filter too, and i can see the same effect.

You can see how's the same in NVG (amber dimmed at max and the green at normal bright)

 

Maybe it's a issue in the NVG shader?

[uri_ba]

AFAIK, the red filters are there to not hemper pilot's night vision (not NVG, just your eyes getting used to the dark).

 

Remember that NVGs were never widly used back in the day, and never existed in their current form in the 70s and 80s and most of the 90s.

[DeMonteur]

Its not a bug. Its the feature. This is how the NVG googles works. Although never tried NVG googles in incompatible cockpit

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Edited April 6, 2019 by DeMonteur
Addition of info

[riojax]

AFAIK, the red filters are there to not hemper pilot's night vision (not NVG, just your eyes getting used to the dark).

 

Remember that NVGs were never widly used back in the day, and never existed in their current form in the 70s and 80s and most of the 90s.

 

Yep i know it, but i'm talking about the light augmentation by the NVG intensifiers. If you know a bit of physics you will know that the light have different wavelenghts, and the sensor have different sensibilities for every wavelengh. The quid is how really affects the wavelenght of amber (A-10) or red (F-14) to the intensifier and if in DCS are properly implemented.

 

Please, don't talk about anything out this.

Edited April 6, 2019 by riojax
typo

[riojax]

Although never tried NVG googles in incompatible cockpit

 

Aha, and how do you know it work in reality?

[DeMonteur]

Have amber and yellow caution lights in cockpit. Will check it when I fly NVG next time.

 

 

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[riojax]

Have amber and yellow caution lights in cockpit. Will check it when I fly NVG next time.

 

Nice, thank you a lot!! and please, upload a photo if you can/permitted :)

 

Also have on mind that i'm talking about light intensify too, the idea is that now maybe you must to dim TOO much the amber or red light to have the same intensify on the NVG that the green one on normal bright.

[DeMonteur]

Taking a photo is near to impossible but I will try to not forget and check it. Although it can be very long time until next NVG flight.