Clear skies

[vfa132]

Yesterday I submitted this to DCS support:  "Is it possible to create a clear blue sky? None of the weather options work, regardless of what they say. Perhaps that would eliminate the haze, clouds, or whatever that cause the F18 HUD to fade and become unusable in some situations (like the CV break)."

The response was: "Yes, you're right. Please write your wish on our forum. If you are supported by a large number of players, programmers will pay attention to this."

Seems to me that have been many many changes and updates, but nothing about the weather. 

Am I missing something? A weather app, maybe?

[Rudel_chw]

10 minutes ago, vfa132 said:

Perhaps that would eliminate the haze, clouds, or whatever that cause the F18 HUD to fade and become unusable in some situations (like the CV break).

 

While ED grants this wish, you could call up the HUD repeater format on one of the MFDs.

[Czar66]

51 minutes ago, vfa132 said:

Yesterday I submitted this to DCS support:  "Is it possible to create a clear blue sky? None of the weather options work, regardless of what they say. Perhaps that would eliminate the haze, clouds, or whatever that cause the F18 HUD to fade and become unusable in some situations (like the CV break)."

The response was: "Yes, you're right. Please write your wish on our forum. If you are supported by a large number of players, programmers will pay attention to this."

Seems to me that have been many many changes and updates, but nothing about the weather. 

Am I missing something? A weather app, maybe?

Is your monitor, GPU control panel color settings, reshade injector color correction or in game gamma settings blowing up the white values?

It is not the first complaint I see here where people are struggling with HUDs and bright weather elements and I wonder if the many injectors and adjustments for eye candy many flock into using without proper care towards image fidelity. I'm wondering if the issue lies there, if I understood the post correctly.

Gamma at 2.2 images bellow. Btw, you can quote me and send an image or a description of time and day + map and we can figure it out how to mitigate the issue before relying on any visual DCS update.

Edited August 3, 2024 by Czar66

[draconus]

On 8/3/2024 at 5:29 PM, vfa132 said:

"Is it possible to create a clear blue sky? None of the weather options work, regardless of what they say. Perhaps that would eliminate the haze, clouds, or whatever that cause the F18 HUD to fade and become unusable in some situations (like the CV break)."

Best to show some screenshots and tracks. We'd know what you're talking about and if it is a matter of settings.

To have a clear sky you have to go to Mission Editor and select "nothing" as clouds preset. Mind that there's some bug which makes very high cirrus cloud layer show up and disappear every few minutes. This doesn't affect haze though.

Make sure your HUD brightness is set to max. Even then there are some conditions, ex. when you fly directly into the sun light that make it impossible to read the HUD. This is normal as IRL and there are HUD repeaters for that.