correct as is Transparent HUD symbology?

[Hippo]

I'm using VR.

Sorry if I've got this wrong but I've been wondering about it for ages.  I'm not sure this always happens but it seems to me that the symbology on the hud is opaque and it shouldn't be.  E.g. when I place the ASL over a target at distance (i.e. a dot) to try and line up my approach, I can't see the target "through" the ASL which means I lose sight of the target.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 21, 2023 by Hippo

[Tholozor]

What kind of weapon/release mode are you using?

[Lord Vader]

Hi @Hippo

The HUD brightness can be adjusted if you need it to be less intense.

Although we can revisit it in the future if required, for now the brightness seems to be correct.

[Hippo]

 

1 hour ago, Lord Vader said:

Hi @Hippo

The HUD brightness can be adjusted if you need it to be less intense.

Although we can revisit it in the future if required, for now the brightness seems to be correct.

 

Thank you.  Sorry for wasting everyone's time and for my disturbing lack of faith; if it's any consolation, I'm feeling rather stoopid now for not having tried that.

When I turn the brightness down I can clearly(ahem) see it is indeed transparent.  I will turn down the brightness in future when required.

 

EDIT:  Sorry to be a pain, but having thought about it a bit more, I still feel it's not quite right.  The transparency goes down and the shade of green gets "brighter" as the HUD brightness is increased, so that it is virtually opaque at the default brightness setting.  Would having the transparency not go down so much while the shade of green gets "brighter" be a possibility?  I do realise that this suggestion might, technically, be nonsense.

Edited March 22, 2023 by Hippo

[Lord Vader]

In real life, this a reflected video projection on a collimated glass. When reducing brightness, you are, in fact, reducing the video brightness on the projector. 

You are suggesting a saturation or tone reduction instead? That's not the purpose of this adjustment.

 

[Hippo]

1 hour ago, Lord Vader said:

In real life, this a reflected video projection on a collimated glass. When reducing brightness, you are, in fact, reducing the video brightness on the projector. 

You are suggesting a saturation or tone reduction instead? That's not the purpose of this adjustment.

 

Thanks again for your patience.  Reducing the "video brightness", afaik, can't be done at the pixel level on a monitor, so it has to be simulated, to my understanding, by varying RGBA (and line thickness?).  I think that the transparency value should probably be higher throughout the range.  Also, I notice that the HUD brightness is by default (when a/c starts in flight) at its highest setting, is this  reasonable/ representative of real life?

Anyway, lowering the brightness solves my problem, but it would be nice to still see the target when the HUD is at a higher brightness setting.  Left image HUD brightness at 9 o'clock (pretty much minimum).  Right image HUD at max (full cw).

Edited March 22, 2023 by Hippo

[Lord Vader]

I see what you mean. However, if the symbology becomes more transparent in the max setting as you're asking, it could create circumstances when it can become unreadable if numerous objects or lights interfere with it. The best suggestion is to dim it to your needs. The image on the right, for example, seems a bit too bright for ground operations. 

As for how real life works, I don't think there's a "standardized" setting on power on. The knob setting is a personal preference, some pilots may reset it to min or max in the previous flight, others might leave it as is for the next sortie.