Cockpit window too dark any solution

[jozeffff]

Hi guys,

 

I find the front cockpit window a bit too dark. When I look sideways there is a lot of color  and it looks vivid. My front look is very dull and washed out. Is there anything I can do about that?

 

I fly vr and use openxr so I can change brightness etc on the fly but if I adjust the front view the rest of the screen including the interior of the hip looks ridiculously  over saturated and bright.

 

Thanks!

 

Jozeff

[Hiob]

You could look into the user files, if anybody has made a mod for the cockpit glass. 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/777143/

try this one

If it doesn’t do the trick, you could perhaps modify those files yourself. At least you haven’t to search for the right ones.

Edited October 9, 2022 by Hiob

[jozeffff]

Thanks but  this makes my windows completely white. Strange.

 

Any ideas?

[Hiob]

No, sorry. You may try to contact the creator of this mod and ask for advice.

Are you using any 3rd party shaders (reshade) or any other mods?

Try to delete the metashader and fxo folders in your savegames/dcs folder. DCS will recompile and rebuild those on the next start.

[Devrim]

Hey guys.

That's my mod and it may be very old and needs to be checked according to latest version of DCS World.

So, I recommend not to use it just in case.

Thx a lot.

Jozef; could you share a screenshot of your cockpit (without my mod of course).

[jozeffff]

Hi devrim, Thanks for your reply and your wonderful work!

 

I will try to post a picture tomorrow, busy week so no time yet.

 

I noticed that when I started the mi8 in the free flight caucas things didn't look so dark but in the first spring tension mission the front view outside seemed to be very dark and colorless.  Weird. Looks pretty dull but sideviews look bright and saturated.

 

Cheers

 

Jozeff

Edited October 13, 2022 by jozeffff

[jozeff]

Hi devrim,

This is the default view no texture mods.

 

I think your mod still works. I created an extra folder layer when compressing to zip file. Therefore dcs did not load any cockpit textures at all.

 

I would like to get a less washed out view in front but i havent managed to get this. I changes the glass.dds file but I got a very white milky looking view.

It is not really that important, I was just messing around with my dcs settings.

 

I fly only VR so my color saturation is very important to get a nice view outside.

 

thanks!

 

Jozeff

[jozeffff]

I found the problem.

Devrims work is wonderful. 

I made a mistake. I unzipped the texture package, replaced one texture tile, zipped the files again. Problem was a texture folder was created within the zip file. In other words.. .there was one extra layer and DCS couldn't acces that zipped file hence the very strange blocks, white windows in my mi8.

 

Instead of checking my zip file I kept creating different .dds files with gimp.

 

Well, another thing learned...

 

Thanks for your help anyways.

 

Cheers

 

Jozeff