HUD Brightness

[Bulldog_1]

I have been refreshing my F-15C flying skills using the FC F-15C since the announcement of the upcoming FF F-15C and the dim HUD is an annoyance that would be nice if it was fixed.

It is stuck in Night mode and I have found no way to adjust it.

I used a mod that worked ok buy the mirrors did not work correctly.

[Gunnar81]

There's a Hud Brightness/Dimming keybind in the controls, did you find that?

[Bulldog_1]

That adjustment does very little as it is still in Night mode.

[draconus]

On 2/4/2025 at 5:09 AM, Bulldog_1 said:

That adjustment does very little as it is still in Night mode.

What night mode? HUD will not be readable flying straight into the sun if that's what you mean.

Edited February 5 by draconus

[Bulldog_1]

12 hours ago, draconus said:

What night mode? HUD will not be readable flying straight into the sun if that's what you mean.

I don't believe that I mentioned flying into the sun. I was referring to the dimness of the HUD in normal daylight conditions no matter what direction you are flying. Also, the position of the HUD brightness switch as noted in the attached screen shot.

Thanks for your input.

[draconus]

7 hours ago, Bulldog_1 said:

the position of the HUD brightness switch

It's not animated and has no meaning in the FC F-15C, like most other switches, knobs and indicators.

[Bulldog_1]

Regardless, I and others would like to have it brightened so that we can see it.

[Skuva]

8 hours ago, Bulldog_1 said:

Regardless, I and others would like to have it brightened so that we can see it.

I battled against the F-15C hud when I was first editing the cockpit, trying to make it more readable, in the end I only found 2 ways of improving it.

The first was darkening either the hud glass or the canopy glass, so the symbology gets better contrast. This works very well for flatscreen users, but for VR it is terrible because the streaming compression hates any non-100%-transparent surfaces. Here is someone's edit in the user files (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3342860/) if you want to try.

The second way is to make changes to the font. I found this better to make the symbology better to read from further away but doesn't improve the contrast, so it just marginally improves readability against the bright sky. Here's a user edit I found https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3330017/

Edited February 6 by Skuva

[Bulldog_1]

I did try both mod's, the first one worked well but it disabled the mirrors. I wasn't very satisfied with the second one.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[Skuva]

13 minutes ago, Bulldog_1 said:

I did try both mod's, the first one worked well but it disabled the mirrors. I wasn't very satisfied with the second one.

Thanks for the suggestions.

The creator probably forgot to properly configure the description.lua and the mirror got messed up

I ended up making an edit to a friend who really like the sukhoi's orange filter

If you want I can send you the files.

 

EDIT: Looking at that creator's description.lua, It seems they forgot to change the name of the mirror, he left as "su27_cpt_mirror", but it should be "F-15C_Mirrors". You can try changing it yourself and see if it solves the problem and you like it.

Edited February 6 by Skuva

[Bulldog_1]

2 hours ago, Skuva said:

EDIT: Looking at that creator's description. Lua, It seems they forgot to change the name of the mirror, he left as "su27_cpt_mirror", but it should be "F-15C_Mirrors". You can try changing it yourself and see if it solves the problem and you like it.

I will try that.

Thanks!

[Bulldog_1]

Darn. It didn't work. I'll just have to be a better fighter pilot and not let anybody get behind me. 

[Skuva]

7 hours ago, Bulldog_1 said:

Darn. It didn't work. I'll just have to be a better fighter pilot and not let anybody get behind me. 

Weird, it works for me.

Are you sure you made the 13th line of the description.lua from the Default folder (not the "lua bak" folder) as 

{"F-15C_Mirrors",   0,    "mirrors"  , true};

and restarted the entire game to apply the change?

Edited February 7 by Skuva

[Bulldog_1]

Good to go 

Thanks for your help.

[1BRAVO9]

On 2/6/2025 at 6:09 AM, Bulldog_1 said:

Regardless, I and others would like to have it brightened so that we can see it.

 

I agree.

I'm not sure if its an "issue" or by design but the HUD is definitely dim compared to other similar modules.

My understanding is that it is known to be dim and I've seen it discussed several times.

Anyone that acts like it doesn't exist either doesn't play the F-15C or they are being a little obtuse. 

[draconus]

It's not about making it easier for you but more realistic. If you want it your way just mod it. I've not seen any proof that it should be super bright.