Goddam Bright Cockpit Lighting!!

Erei

Erei
Agrar Therenus said:
Yes well in this case common sense prevails.

Just what kind of person is more interested in seeing the grills and struts of the inside of their ship than what's actually going on outside? The comparison to drving at night is exact-- it's harder to take in what's going on out there when the dashboard in front of you is lit up like a Christmas tree.
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I do ? Without the ship part, it's not a starship sim, it's a space sim. I want to feel I'm flying a spaceship, not feel I'm an ethereal body flying in space.

And it's freaking space, not night. It's not like you need to avoid a deer. It seems obvious to me we would light the interior. The space shuttles or rocket, all must have light insides I imagine.
 

Ohanka

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Erei said:
I do ? Without the ship part, it's not a starship sim, it's a space sim. I want to feel I'm flying a spaceship, not feel I'm an ethereal body flying in space.

And it's freaking space, not night. It's not like you need to avoid a deer. It seems obvious to me we would light the interior. The space shuttles or rocket, all must have light insides I imagine.
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Yup

Edit: broken upload, have a link instead.

Bright!
 

Cmdr. Numa

Cmdr. Numa
Erei said:
I thought it was impossible to see entire planet if you had light inside a cockpit in space ! Like in the night when you use a car.

Because I assume all of us went to space to check, right ?
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Those pilots have mostly instruments to fly by and don't regularly dogfight other pilots. In that scenario I'd want the cockpit well lit. In ED we rely on eyeball MK1 for what's going on outside with just a rudimentary scanner tool. In that scenario I absolutely want the cockpit dark. But since those two opinions are polar opposites and there is no middle ground, why the heck can't we adjust it in the options to our liking ? As it is currently, I'm probably going to remove a lot of the cockpit customisations I've paid money for, simply to get rid of that distraction.
 

Soupbot

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Just made A new thread about this. But I found something y’all might be interested in:

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At least while in a Krait mk2 In VR. This probably works for all ships and in non VR also but I have not tested.)

If you are a little put off by the overly bright lighting in the cockpit of the Krait mk2 and long for the days of the nice subdued cocpit lighting of Horizons then read on.

1. Open system map.
2. Close system map (effect doesn’t work on first open)
3. Open system map again and look very Carefully around the edges of any open ui panels that are open. Look up at the skybox. Look T the cockpit lighting. Look all around. The throwback effect only last for a half second so catch it quick.
4. Bask in the darker cockpits and brighter skybox of an age now past.

To be fair, there are some things that look better in the new cockpit lighting scheme. But man, I really think the Krait cockpit is just too damn bright right now.
 

Lord Rak

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buzzx said:
I dont understand why just because a vocal part of the community complained about the new lighting the silent majority that said nothing now have to suffer this new bright lighting in the cockpit.
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this is VR problem, so only players using VR (small amount) are having this problem and I don't think all of them. I guess it may depends on what kind of VR you use.
 
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JetsonRING

JetsonRING
buzzx said:
I dont understand why just because a vocal part of the community complained about the new lighting the silent majority that said nothing now have to suffer this new bright lighting in the cockpit. A lot of us Im sure loved the dark cockpits of the old ships like the Python. Now this has been ruined. We used to fly these older ship because the lighting in say the Krait was ridiculous. I mean who in their right mind drives down the highway in the middle of the night with their internal light on? Let alone explore the depths of space. When you are in a plane flying at 50000 feet at night you dont try look out the window while the cabin lights are on during meal service . Why cant we just choose our on goddam lighting level for the cockpits. This really sucks.
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Players have complained about it and asked for a dimmer or toggle for years ... crickets from FDev.
 

hems303

hems303
Susanna said:
I wish there was an upside down popcorn emoji! 🙃🙃🙃🙃
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.... here ya go .....
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FX2K

FX2K
milljm said:
What I want: https://www.google.com/search?q=nig...=1907&client=firefox-b-d#imgrc=BKmYnd2vbxYvjM

What we seem to have: https://www.google.com/search?q=night pictures from cockpits&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CaX0igyOY6zNYd4b5V7-cjBf&client=firefox-b-d&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBsQuIIBahcKEwiA2b697pDyAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQJQ&biw=1890&bih=1508
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I like what we have now ( Gamma set to mid - and appropriate for my screen)

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I mean, sure.. I'm using a EDHM to alter the colours, but pretty happy as of late with the cockpit.
Although, I haven't checked out my Krait in a few days and that was way too bright previously.

Not affiliated with the mod authors, at all... but its impressive and it has a brightness slider for the cockpit lighting (separate to entire hud) :D
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dm06

dm06
buzzx said:
A lot of us Im sure loved the dark cockpits of the old ships like the Python.
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That is a wrong assumption. I never liked looking at black screen and always had gamma at max also used third party tools to raise gamma in the game.
But my observations are: the more efforts FD puts into lighting the darker the game becomes.
 
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