[Feature Request] VR Quality of Life - Night Operations

[DerekSpeare]

Hello friends:

 

I would like to see some night-vision-friendly changes to the DCS menus and COMMS text that do not cause eyestrain when operating in night missions, "Nighttime Operations". Folks like night ops and fly them in both actual daylight and nighttime during their DCS flying sessions. A subdued color pallet suitable for night vision would be a quality of life feature I recommend.

 

Areas I see for nighttime improvement:

 

1 - General DCS manu screens/dialog boxes should have a nighttime color scheme;

2 - Comms text and other text on the screen during flight should have a nighttime color scheme;

3 - the user should have the option to bind a button/key in his/her UI Layer binds to activate and deactivate the night pallet as they wish;

4 - If the particular aircraft being used has a flashlight, e.g. the F16C, then there should be at least a red lens in addition to the white color we have now, and the user can cycle the color by pressing the bound button/key to operate the flashlight.

 

While it's really not my intention to overstate the need for such night-eye-friendly improvements to DCS in VR, understanding that ED has bigger matters requiring their development attention, it would be beneficial to have this feature "folded into the mix" with their other VR improvement development effort.

 

Anyhow, that's it...gonna head off and do some night AAR practice in the F16 now :pilotfly:

If you have other ideas to improve DCS at night in VR to ease the eye, post them up!

[Digitalvole]

Being able to look under the goggles to see stuff in the cockpit would be good. Also I see a noticeable performance hit when I have nvgs on, would be nice if that wasn’t a thing. :)

[DerekSpeare]

The color of the font used for the FPS readout is a good color for night...I wonder if it's set in a LUA file somewhere in the bowels of DCS??