Reverb G2 White Halo in 2.7

[brodie4598]

Clouds are gorgeous!

But - Using my Reverb G2 I have a white halo around my view in VR. It's very bright/distracting. Don't see it at night but it's present during day mission. After a bit of flying around it seems it appears any time the aircraft is in direct sunlight

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, not noticed in mine can you make a short track replay and post a screenshot

 

thanks

[brodie4598]

1 minute ago, BIGNEWY said:

Hi, not noticed in mine can you make a short track replay and post a screenshot

 

thanks

 

The halo doesnt appear in screenshots/2D - only the headset.

 

However, maybe it does...I notice the 2D view that appears now has that ring around it and I think the headset is grabbing the edge of whatever that is. When I roll the plane the halo fades in/out with where the sky position is in the 2D view ring (whatever you want to call that). I hope that makes sense...

 

Here is a video I took through the headset that shows it at the bottom though:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8wli7s920bm716/IMG_1506.mp4?dl=0 

 

 

[VIXEN413]

I have to report that I noticed the same... 

the lower edge line of the hmd is having this glowing/halo white blueish effect. 

Only when flying over a layer of clouds or with heavy luminosity... 

If I go under an overcast, I dont see it anymore. 

You notice it in your peripheral vision, when not looking at the edge of your hmd but when you look at the edge of your VR screens, it diaapear... 

something is creating a reflection with those new lights effects and it reverbs (sic) on the edge of the lenses... 

 

If I leave a mission without clouds, I have same perfs as before.... the new clouds are taxing around 15 to 20% of my perfs..... 

Time to fiddle with the settings... again lol

[Binary]

I don't have a white halo but am noticing something which I think has the same cause as brodie4598 described. I am seeing a blue flickering bar at the top and bottom of my view occasionally. I think the area that is rendered needs to be increased a bit. It gets worse when reprojection during low FPS situations kicks in.

 

[VIXEN413]

I think you must be right! might be why we see a white glow at the bottom of the in-headset screen when we look down in the cockpit while flying above white clouds... 

might be the background 

of the VR mask perspirating from below... 

[200rabbits]

I'm getting the same thing. Got it on the ground too. I can see it all round the view, but it's by far most obtrusive at the bottom.

[brodie4598]

Go here:

I:\DCS World OpenBeta\Bazar\shaders\HMDMask.fx

 

Change:

float4 vsOctagonMask(in float2 pos:POSITION0): SV_POSITION0
{
    return float4(pos, 1, 1);
}
 

To:

float4 vsOctagonMask(in float2 pos:POSITION0): SV_POSITION0
{
    return float4(pos, .9, .9);
}
 

Seems to pass integrity check and I didnt see any performance hit

 

Thanks to @Japo32 for finding the trick. 

[sirrah]

I too see this thin but very bright line inside my HP Reverb (G1) exactly as @brodie4598 shows in his video here:

 

On 4/14/2021 at 7:44 PM, brodie4598 said:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8wli7s920bm716/IMG_1506.mp4?dl=0 

 

As said before and as far as I've tested, it only starts to appear when flying above the low hanging clouds Just tested again and it appeared pretty my directly after take off (Incirlik Syria, day time, overcast 2)

 

@BIGNEWY: Could you please share this with the team?

 

I'd rather see this addressed by ED, than mess about in the shader file myself (and probably end up breaking stuff)

Edited April 15, 2021 by sirrah

[toni]

Do you also have no textures on the sea ? Tried a MP server with the SC and water is flat absolutely,dark blue and no waves at all.

[200rabbits]

On 4/15/2021 at 12:24 AM, brodie4598 said:

Go here:

I:\DCS World OpenBeta\Bazar\shaders\HMDMask.fx

 

Change:

float4 vsOctagonMask(in float2 pos:POSITION0): SV_POSITION0
{
    return float4(pos, 1, 1);
}
 

To:

float4 vsOctagonMask(in float2 pos:POSITION0): SV_POSITION0
{
    return float4(pos, .9, .9);
}
 

Seems to pass integrity check and I didnt see any performance hit

 

Thanks to @Japo32 for finding the trick. 

Tested 0.9, 0.95, 0.96, 0.97 and 0.98. 0.95 seems to be the biggest I can set mine that eliminates the problem.

[wraith76]

I have this issue as well. It happens when i go above the clouds.

 

RTX 2080TI

Reverb G2

On 4/16/2021 at 12:03 PM, toni said:

Do you also have no textures on the sea ? Tried a MP server with the SC and water is flat absolutely,dark blue and no waves at all.

Same here, even in single player.

[toni]

We will need an investigation and further update for Reverb G2