Galaxy background too bright? Not anymore!

ICO_hr

ICO_hr
If you're like me thinking why the hell FD make the MW galaxy soo bright. You dont have to loose your sleep over it anymore. In ''GraphicsConfiguration.xml'' is hidden( well not really hidden) the cool option that change the brightness of the galaxy called ''MilkywayInstancesBrightness>1.00</MilkywayInstancesBrightness>''.

Finally it looks good and i dont need anymore sun glasses to play the game. :D

Tweaked is ''0.07'', Vanilla is ''1.0''
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xeeleeqax

xeeleeqax
cool - thanks for that i would find that useful

BTW - which folder can that .xml be found in? And how do i edit it?

I am a layman :)
 
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Andurol

Andurol
Interesting. And all it does is the background brightness? doesn't do anything to the stars or whatnot in the system you're in?
 

ICO_hr

ICO_hr
Andurol said:
Interesting. And all it does is the background brightness? doesn't do anything to the stars or whatnot in the system you're in?
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No. It changes only the overall brightness of the galaxy. Stars, Nebulas and everything else is the same.
 

ermtony

ermtony
This does beg one question... Have you ever been out of doors on a clear night with no light pollution? The Milky Way really is bright and awesome.
 

ICO_hr

ICO_hr
ermtony said:
This does beg one question... Have you ever been out of doors on a clear night with no light pollution? The Milky Way really is bright and awesome.
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Yes i've been. Nope, its nothing like vanilla brightness in game, not even close.And is overall blue-ish not red-ish.
 
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Rhaedas

Rhaedas
And we're actually obstructed still by dust clouds. Some systems above the plane should see a much brighter core, so adjusting this number is giving you a possibly incorrect view.

But if it just does that and nothing else, then it's more a personal preference, so whatever. It'll probably make many systems behind dust clouds not have it at all, I've seen some where you get just a small red blob, and it took me a second to realize that's all they can see.
 

ICO_hr

ICO_hr
What is the correct view anyway? There is not such thing as correct view because no one on this planet have seen the galactic core from above or below the galactic plane. Also this is game, all of this is the artists interpretation of the real world. Everything in art is subjective and more or less a personal taste. Sure its build to be as close to the real thing but still an artist intepretation.

I'm sharing what i've found. Everyone can tweak it by their liking, or not tweaking it at all. :)
 
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ICO_hr

ICO_hr
xeeleeqax said:
hi ICO can u ell me how to tweak my file please - i am a layman BTW
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Find ''GraphicsConfiguration.xml'' in the installation folder of ED. Inside the xml file you need to find ''<MilkywayInstancesBrightness>1.0</MilkywayInstancesBrightness>'' and just change the value from 1.0 to 0.5 or 0.3 or whatever you like and save the file. Restart the the game to see the changes.
 

xeeleeqax

xeeleeqax
yeah roughly were is this xml file? cant find it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Frontier

(i warned u - u were dealing with a lay man :))
 
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ICO_hr

ICO_hr
snotface said:
Actually with the new drivers for my NVidia GeForce card make the game look even better so there is no need to tunes down the brightness of anything
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Except the dinamic downsampling i dont know anything else that you can do with the new drivers.
 

xeeleeqax

xeeleeqax
sorry i still cant find the xml file i dont have this path Program Files (x86)\Frontier\EDLaunch\Products

no folders called products unless its a hidden file?
 

EAGLE 5

EAGLE 5
ICO_hr said:
Yes i've been. Nope, its nothing like vanilla brightness in game, not even close.And is overall blue-ish not red-ish.
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That's the atmosphere doing some degree of filtering. The better question would have been if you had ever been in deep space (mening far enough from a star or planet) to make that observation. For all that we know it may be that bright. Still though good job on cracking the code if that helps your gaming experience I'm sure this will benefit others.
 

Riktar

Riktar
On my computer the file is located at:

C:\Users\riktar\AppData\Local\Frontier_Developments\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1002

Note that "riktar" is my user name on my Win 7 installation. So whatever your username is will correspond to that. IE: your user name is jeremywilson. the location would be:

C:\Users\jeremywilson\AppData\Local\Frontier_Developments\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1002

One other note: the AppData folder is usually a "hidden folder" so won't be viewable until you enable Windows explorer to include hidden folders.

Hope this helps,,,,,,,,,,
 

snotface

snotface
ICO_hr said:
Except the dinamic downsampling i dont know anything else that you can do with the new drivers.
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I know by itself the driver doesnt do much, but I have that Experience software running as well and the new driver and software update allows you to either have it optimised, configure it yourself or what ever. The way I have it set it looks amazing, much better than it was about 4 hours ago before the update.
 
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