Carrier IFLOLS overbright…..and overlay query

[Hippo]

41 minutes ago, draconus said:

What's your mission then? What exactly you want to achieve apart from annoying all the others who do have a problem?

My "mission" would be to try and help to identify what might be causing the issue.  My secondary objective would be to inform whoever is looking into it that it isn't happening to everyone.  I am certainly not engaged in a campaign to annoy anyone.

Over and out.

[Gav]

Pimax Crystal User.

Can confirm, day or night in VR the iflols lights are a ball of green with the ball totally lost in the green glow, making the iflols useless without the overlay.

Also, sorry to add a sidebar, but are the lights still only calibrated for the 18 and not the 14?

[Nealius]

13 hours ago, Gav said:

Also, sorry to add a sidebar, but are the lights still only calibrated for the 18 and not the 14?

Last time I trapped the Tomcat (maybe 2 months ago?) the ball was calibrated for the Tomcat. 

[ax2212]

are there any plans to allow us to change the brightness of the overlay if we arent going to change the IFLOS brightness? still too bright in VR for me...but id compromise and be very happy if the overlay brightness could be adjusted. its too bright for case III

[2circle]

This is a great example of why I have 2 installs of DCS on my PC.  It's a fantastic product overall, but a bit of a polka dance with each new release; 2 steps forward, 1 step back.  I just updated my 2nd version to the latest release and wow, the IFLOLS is unusable, and actually distracting (at least for VR, even in the daytime for me with "bloom" deselected).

I flew Tomcats and Super Hornets in the Fleet until 2004.  Getting the brightness of the meatball and datums right was a big deal.  The LSO's would give it their best guess, and as it got darker outside, they would make it dimmer and dimmer.  Often, they would ask the pilot who just landed how the brightness was for his/her approach, and then they would make adjustments accordingly.  This was mostly an issue during and shortly after sunset - obviously once it was full dark, no further adjustments were necessary.  I'm sure a brightness slider for the datums and ball would require some effort, but time well spent IMO.

Small suggestion for extra realism while I think about it.  Having sparks fly from the tailhook at night would be super cool.  When it contacts the deck, sparks would go everywhere.  We always referred to a taxi 1 wire as the "sparkle one" arrival.  Good times...

Keep up the great work ED!

[sLYFa]

The problem is, you can't control the brightness of the ball and the landing area separately, since both use the same halo texture at the moment. You can either have good LA lights and an overly bright ball or a good ball and a barely visibile LA at night. I guess ED tried to tweak the textures to find a good middle ground but it doesn't really work out, hence all the legit complaints here. I hope they will choose the right way and rebuild the SC models to allow for separate and dynamic brightness control of the LA lights and IFLOLS.

[G21pilot]

I'm having the same problem with Quest 3 in Godlike. It's only really useable at 1/4 mile.