fixed Cockpit elements, aircraft strangely bright at night after a recent update

[Rolds]

On 2.7.11.22211

Aircraft interiors and exteriors have become very bright at night time, making it hard to see out of the cockpit. Mig21 seems most affected. Moon phase doesn't affect this. It is like there is a lighbox effect causing the aircraft to self illuminate at night or something, not sure exactly how to describe it. A friend flying mig21 in multiplayer reported the same effects.

 

 

Edited April 14, 2022 by Rolds

[Rolds]

Deleting FXO, metashaders, and running a repair has corrected the problem.

[Rolds]

Repair, FXO, metashader routine did not fix the issue long term. The mig21 cockpit is glowing again in another session.

Edited April 20, 2022 by Rolds
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[Flappie]

No such issue on my end. Are you guys using a shader mod?

[Rolds]

No mods for me. 

[Rolds]

Whoever marked this as solved, it is not solved! I was able to reproduce the problem. I fixed the issue with deleting metashader and FXO files (again), then flew a night misison in the Mig21. Texture was fine. Then I flew a quick day misison. Day texture looked a little weird to me. Then I went back to a night mission and the cockpit is glowing in the dark again. Closing DCS, uninstalling FXO and metashader, then reopening DCS appears to solve the issue without running a repair.

 

Also when the problem occurs it also seems to make water glow as you can see in this screenshot from Bandar Abbas looking south.

Edited April 21, 2022 by Rolds
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[Flappie]

It is I that asked for the "solved" tag because you said it was solved yourself. Here:

Now that you showed me what the world looked like, I can tell you it's a known bug. It's reported and we are waiting for a fix.

[Art-J]

@Rolds The cockpit part might be MiG-21-specific, so you might be better off reporting in their part of the forum. Have you tested if it happens in other planes as well?

I seem to recall MiG's pit was never 100% converted to be PBR compatible, so various lighting and shading issues in latest DCS versions are a given, unfortunately. We know from Rudel's posts made last summer that full cockpit rework was planned, but with their hands on deck for F4U module, apart from new gunsight we got there's no ETA given for the rest of that rework.

 

Edited April 21, 2022 by Art-J

[Rolds]

I sometimes get similar effects in other planes but not as pronounced as in the mig21 @Art-J

[Photon]

I've had this as well in the AH64 in the latest patch. Restarting the game always fixes it for me at least.