Can we have more lower gamma in game? Please :D

[drahn]

According to map I have to change gamma amount everytime.

 

I usually 0.5 gamma for Stalingrad and Moscow map. but Kuban map has different terrain color. so I have to change 0.8 gamma for spotting.

(Usually high gamma amount is too difficult to spot enemy in Stalingrad and Moscow maps.)

 

When I play in Berloga, I have to change gamma 0.8. (Server playing Kuban.)

but when I play in Wings of Liberty or Tactical Air War, I have to change gamma 0.5. (Server playing Moscow and Stalingrad)

 

So I have to exit to playing IL-2, and edit gamma amount in Startup.cfg.

 

This is so inconvenience. so can we have more lower gamma amount in game option? :D

 

Please~!!

Edited September 2, 2017 by Jens81

[Finkeren]

Just change light intensity on your screen? Easier than setting gamma in-game.

[drahn]

Just change light intensity on your screen? Easier than setting gamma in-game.

 

Im actually doing like you talking. 

and I have Benq XR3501. so there are many option to control monitor. (Black eQualizer, Color Vibrance, Dynamic Contrast)

but they bring different images.

 

in game lower gamma option is much better to spot planes.

Usually lower gamma can see planes at 7~8km.

 

but darker monitor result to difficult to spot airplane from terrain. that is just darker image.

[Guest deleted@30725]

Sounds like cheat. Defeats point of night mission if the dark looks like daylight.

Edited September 2, 2017 by deleted@30725

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

Don't forget, military aircraft are painted the way they are so that you can't see them against the ground from above, and against the sky from below.

[Nibbio]

Sounds like cheat. Defeats point of night mission if the dark looks like daylight.

Never seen a MP night mission, besides OP is trying to darken his screen, not turn night into day

[sniperton]

I'm fine with 0.8 at Kuban, but e.g. Moscow at summer is too bright using the same gamma setting (and not using Reshade).

 

I also find that on the Kuban map I can switch off Reshade without visual backdrops, it's no more needed there that much as on earlier maps.

 

Perhaps the devs should or could consider bringing all maps to the same contrast/gamma level. I would gladly get rid of Reshade which costs me FPS and makes the game hang on exit.

 

An interim solution could be allowing the gamma to be set below 0.8 in-game.

[drahn]

I don't want a cheat or weird thing.

 

I just want to see like old IL-2 1946 or IL-2 Clod.

 

Spotting in 3~4km is too short to prepare to engage in WW2 air simulation (Airplane of Rise of Flight of WW1 are slow, so very different story.)

 

but airplane of WW2 is much more fast. so I think reasonable and realistic spotting range is 7~8km at least.
 

Isn't it right?

Edited September 2, 2017 by Jens81

[216th_Jordan]

Im actually doing like you talking. 

and I have Benq XR3501. so there are many option to control monitor. (Black eQualizer, Color Vibrance, Dynamic Contrast)

 

That is however colors and contrast, not brightness. Most monitors come way too bright. I have my brightness setting at 39% now and my display

calibration unit still tells me that this is rather high for optimal viewing settings. If you set it to an appropriate brightness level (check with testcards or a calibration tool) you might need to adjust your contrast to fit with it.

 

With my adjusted monitor I play at gamma 1 and can sometimes spot fighters up to 9 km away in very good conditions. Plus: Its way more beautiful.

Edited September 2, 2017 by 216th_Jordan

[peregrine7]

There is a difference between brightness and gamma. Brightness measures the maximum output of white, gamma is a curve that will affect contrast.  

A good monitor shouldn't lose detail in the high range at 50% brightness (which is really 100% - going higher will just clip the whites). 

Ideally you want the highest monitor brightness pre-clipping (50% on almost all monitors), and then either adjust your gamma for perfect colour/contrast recreation (which is 1.0 or close to it) or go for whatever contrast you desire. 

 

Remember there's two realistic paths to colour and light recreation, you can go for range (represent the full range of brightness values from pitch black to direct sunlight on a screen that is 500 times darker than sunlight) or you can go for contrast slope - the latter loses a lot of detail in the high and low end and requires HDR to work decently. You're going for the latter approach.  

 

You can get lower gamma values by using your video-card drivers, both nvidia and AMD support changes to gamma that will impact all applications. 

 

To be clear, I would not advise changing your monitor settings away from 50/50/50 (or whatever colour calibrated profile it uses), make changes within windows/drivers/the game itself. 

Edited September 3, 2017 by peregrine7

[unreasonable]

Set your gamma so that it works well on the Kuban map.  Then, when playing the other snow maps, wear sunglasses.

[TXSailor_1]

Sounds like cheat. Defeats point of night mission if the dark looks like daylight.

 

Kinda what I'm hearing too... The world is BRIGHT. Ever try to spot an aircraft, from in flight, from 1-2 kilometers away?

 

I have. It's hard. Even when you know where he is. Because the world is bright.