F14 Cockpit Lights Broken?

[Lurker]

Yeah, recently got back to the sim. Fly the F14 almost exclusively, all of it during the day so far. Anyway I tried turning the cockpit lights on and no joy. Turning all the nobs did nothing for me, none of the lights work. Is this a thing? Am I missing something, a switch somewhere a setting in the game options? 

 

P.S. VR flier here. 

[draconus]

http://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/cockpit.html#master-light-control-panel

If cold - maybe you missed electrical power usually connected by ground crew?

If engines were on you'd have to turn off the generators to see such effect.

[Lurker]

I did not turn off the generators, I was hot and running with both engines on. No lights. 

[draconus]

During the day it's hard to see any difference although if you move the instrument wheels to max you should see brighter gauges. Any mods you might have?

[Lurker]

No mods, clean beta install. I'll try a full DCS World repair and report back. I do have the setting Cockpit Global Illumination turned off, that's not it is it?

Edited December 9, 2020 by Lurker

[draconus]

No, the option is just some gfx lighting effect.

[Xeno426]

I've had a similar issue with both the F-14 and AJS 37. One of the HB lighting updates a couple months ago did this. In the past, I would always turn on the cockpit instrument lights to make them more visible, even in the day.

Now, turning them on does literally nothing unless it is completely dark out. And the AJS 37 gauges all have a slightly blue tint to them.

 

This has been rather troubling for me. I'm on a lower-end machine, and it really helped to make the gauges easier to read without having to really zoom in.

Edited December 14, 2020 by Xeno426
Expanded thoughts

[Lurker]

14 hours ago, Xeno426 said:

I've had a similar issue with both the F-14 and AJS 37. One of the HB lighting updates a couple months ago did this. In the past, I would always turn on the cockpit instrument lights to make them more visible, even in the day.

Now, turning them on does literally nothing unless it is completely dark out. And the AJS 37 gauges all have a slightly blue tint to them.

 

This has been rather troubling for me. I'm on a lower-end machine, and it really helped to make the gauges easier to read without having to really zoom in.

 

 

Yup, this seems to be the issue. 

[Reflected]

Yepp, according to the manual, max setting should be "daytime setting". Then you dial it down as it gets darker. Right now you need may or 1-2 below max even at night, during daytime it's not visible at all.

[Northstar98]

20 hours ago, Reflected said:

Yepp, according to the manual, max setting should be "daytime setting". Then you dial it down as it gets darker. Right now you need may or 1-2 below max even at night, during daytime it's not visible at all.

 

That's fairly common for basically all internal lights across a whole load of modules right now.

 

Don't get me wrong though, I'd expect this to be more or less the case in direct sunlight, but even with it maxed on a panel in shadow it's basically invisible.

 

Personally, I think the pre 2.5.6 cockpit lights and displays were absolutely fine (though the Tomcat's lights were very dark).

Edited December 16, 2020 by Northstar98

[Skysurfer]

They are barely visible during the day and sadly pretty washed out and still glitches during the nigh.