Hippo Posted February 25 Posted February 25 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. System spec: Intel i7 12700k @ stock, ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB GDDR6X, Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4, Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3200MHz C16, Samsung 980 EVO 500 GB NVME M.2 SSD (system drive), WD Black SN 850X 2TB NVME M.2 SSD (games drive), Thermalright Assassin Spirit 120 Evo Cooler, Asus XG43UQ Monitor, Oculus Quest Pro, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS Prev System spec (leaving here because I often reference it in my posts): Intel i9 13900KF @ stock, Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC 24GB GDDR6X, Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4, Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO SL 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3600MHz C18, Samsung 980 EVO 500 GB NVME M.2 SSD (system drive), Samsung 970 EVO 1 TB NVME M.2 SSD (games drive), Cooler Master ML360 Illusion CPU Cooler, Asus XG43UQ Monitor, Oculus Quest Pro, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, MFG Crosswind Rudder Pedals
Gav Posted March 8 Posted March 8 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 Posted March 9 Posted March 9 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 Posted March 12 Posted March 12 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 Posted March 18 Posted March 18 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! 5 F-18C/F-14/P-51/F-86 Pico4/Quest2 VR with Intel Core i9 3.0GHZ 24 -Core, 16GB, GeForce RTX 4070 ti
sLYFa Posted March 19 Posted March 19 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. 1 i5-8600k @4.9Ghz, 2080ti , 32GB@2666Mhz, 512GB SSD
G21pilot Posted April 1 Posted April 1 I'm having the same problem with Quest 3 in Godlike. It's only really useable at 1/4 mile.
Txbitt Posted April 19 Posted April 19 Came here looking for answers also. I use a Pimax Crystal and night carrier landings are now very difficult, the meatball is like looking into the sun, it is also very bright during the day, but doable. Not sure what update changed things because I have been flying the Viper lately and have not flow the Hornet for a couple of months.
majorandme Posted May 12 Posted May 12 Still an ongoing issue or has a fix been found? I can barely make out the ball and the LA/tower is way too bright in VR
draconus Posted May 12 Posted May 12 7 hours ago, majorandme said: Still an ongoing issue or has a fix been found? I can barely make out the ball and the LA/tower is way too bright in VR Still an issue but you can make the extensive bloom go away by turing the option off in DCS settings, VR tab. 1 Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
majorandme Posted May 14 Posted May 14 Turned off the bloom option with nil effect. Will wait for a fix from ED.
Nealius Posted May 15 Posted May 15 I'm not getting the bloom affect but I haven't been able to pinpoint why. The only thing I can think of is the "darker and less glossy" texture mod I'm using, because the bloom is still there on Forrestal, just not the CVNs for me.
majorandme Posted May 15 Posted May 15 Still there for me. Not the greatest screenshot, but essentially the Lens is a glow and unusable.
Micr0 Posted May 15 Posted May 15 Turning off volumetric lights seems to help a little. But it's still a bloom of light 1
majorandme Posted May 22 Posted May 22 On 5/15/2025 at 6:39 PM, Micr0 said: Turning off volumetric lights seems to help a little. But it's still a bloom of light It did help a bit. Many thanks!
2circle Posted June 7 Posted June 7 I’d also add that the ability to dim the IFLOLS pop up window, and knee board card pop up window for night ops would be useful. F-18C/F-14/P-51/F-86 Pico4/Quest2 VR with Intel Core i9 3.0GHZ 24 -Core, 16GB, GeForce RTX 4070 ti
draconus Posted June 7 Posted June 7 My vote for fixing the lighting and removing overlays. Kneeboard place is on the knee, not overlay screen. 2 Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
G21pilot Posted June 29 Posted June 29 This is really taking a long time to fix. The IFLOS overlay really takes away from immersion in VR. This is my system in VR and 2D: On 1/22/2025 at 12:34 AM, BIGNEWY said: People could not see the IFLOS, the brightness was increased and we made some fixes which helped a lot, now you are saying it is to bright, can you see we are just going to be going back and forth between different people with different preferences and different hardware specs. The answer can not be to add sliders to adjust for each issue. I have asked the team to review the lighting on the carrier for the deck, but at the moment it is lower priority while they work on improving the deck crew. thank you This is a legit bug and it's been though several updates now. What is the status? See my post VR vs 2D screenshots taken today. 2
Micr0 Posted June 30 Posted June 30 You're going to have to use the mods to reduce the brightness. They arent going to come out and say it, but the devs have washed their hands of the carrier. We have what we have. 2
Mistermann Posted July 1 Posted July 1 4 hours ago, Micr0 said: We have what we have. I personally think that's the healthy way of thinking about the Super carrier and a whole slew of unfulfilled/unfinished content across all of DCS. 3 System Specs: Spoiler Callsign:Kandy Processor:13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K - RAM: 64GB - Video Card: NVIDIA RTX 4090 - Display: Pimax 8kx VR Headset - Accessories: VKB Gunfighter III MCG Ultimate, VKB STECS Standard, Thrustmaster TPR Pedals, Simshaker JetPad, Predator HOTAS Mounts, 3D Printed Flight Button Box Video Capture Software: Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), Video Editing Software: PowerDirector 35 Into The Jungle (MP Mission) F18: Scorpion's Sting Apache Campaign - Griffins Kiowa Campaign - Assassins
TimSell75 Posted Tuesday at 07:53 PM Posted Tuesday at 07:53 PM Crystal Super User here. Same problem. The IFLOLS is just a big ball of glowing green with no use in VR. CPU: i9-14900K, RAM: 64GB DDR4 3200, GPU: RTX5090 32GB, HD: M2 PCIe 2TB Pimax Crystal Super Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, Thrustmaster TPR Rudders
Arew Posted Wednesday at 05:43 PM Posted Wednesday at 05:43 PM Meta Quest 3 user and the meatball has been unusable since the change until the in-close section of the groove. Would really love to hear that this is being at least looked into.
Micr0 Posted Wednesday at 10:30 PM Posted Wednesday at 10:30 PM *Maybe* a solution https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3335683/
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