Could we get an option to adjust the strength of the dynamic lighting?

[Evert66]

I agree with topic starter weezzah on the lightning being far too washed out when looking outside from the cabine. I found out that setting the lighting quality to "very low" there is no washing out anymore but the overall quality of the cabine gets worse also.

A human eye can do better in difficult lightning situations then most camera can. Try to make a picture with a camera through a window from inside a house where you can see inside and outside the house: the camera struggles greatly getting the lightning both inside and outside right. The human eye does much better.  Thats why HDR has been invented to overcome this problem.

Simrail lightning reacts more like a digital camera, and imo that's not the way it should be.

I think the developers should tweak these lightning settings, f.i. in a way a user can set this to his/her liking.

Edited March 25, 2023 by Evert66
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[Gazz292]

i've just been 'battling' with the lighting but maybe in a different way, 

i've been getting annoyed with the ghosting i'm seeing at night (due to the DLSS i'm using i now know.. so i'm trying a few different 'nvngx_dlss.dll' 's out to find one that doesn't ghost so much)
But also i'm getting a 'halo' of spilled light around the hassler tacho and indicator lights on the desk of the EU07/EP08's that i drive. 

I found turning HDR off fixed the halo of light, but dammit, i bought a laptop with a HDR certified screen and 500 nits of brightness etc, so i want to use HDR,  but no matter how many times i 'calibrate the HDR' i was still getting these 'halo's'  they look really bad around the headlights of a train. 

Then i remembered what it's called... 'Bloom'  and there's a setting for it in the 'settings.conf' file,  unfortunately it's on or off, but i turned it to off and those halo's are gone, 

Now this does mean i'll lose the diffused look of light sources like platform lights perhaps, as bloom is a good effect when done subtlety,  but i think it's turned up too high in SimRail atm. 

[Boba Fatt]

Yeah, dynamic lighting need a calibration, I will try to see if using the roller blinds do help a little.

Maybe we could get a 'sunglasses'-like option. 😎

[Andomorphia]

+1000 to this, playing with HDR makes this issue even worse 🙁 Hopefully the devs have acknowledged it at least?

Edited May 6, 2023 by Andomorphia