I find it highly unrealistic that when I look directly into the sun, it is not blinding in any way. In real life, if one looks directly into the sun your entire vision is blinded. Other flight sims have this feature well implemented, and what’s puzzling in MSFS is that a surface reflection from the sun will blind you to an extent…go figure. The effect l’m talking about occurs when the center point of the screen is the disc of the sun, which produces a bright white blanching out effect for the entire screen. More puzzling is that I can’t find any posts here were this issue is mentioned. Am I missing something here? Can or will a realistic sun blinding behavior ever be implemented? Any thoughts, and thanks for reading.
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Moved to Interests-General Discussion.
So how does the sim know where your eyes are looking?
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VFR navigation into the sun is quite challenging because the dynamic lighting is one of the simulator’s strengths. Flying over LA in the morning, not even sure where I am looking straight ahead:
Turned around, ok that’ s better:
I agree with the poster above. The simulator should not assume my retina is looking right at the sun’s disc and then put some hokey white washing effect up on the screen.
Controlling the exposure of the camera to fit the dynamic range of a screen is also always going to be a compromise in some form. I thought they did a really good job with this actually. Other simulators look like a cartoon in comparison.
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Well, I suppose you could have a USB device that fires a laser into your eyes destroying your retina. I mean, that’d be realistic.
My point is, just how much realism do you want? You have to draw the line somewhere.
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I find flying into the sun annoying enough as it is currently modeled (I mean annoying in a realism sense, not a complaint)!
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If you are NOT using live weather, then adding some humidity in the weather settings (around 7 for example) will change what is visible while flying in the direction of the sun. To me this comes nearest to “being blinded”.
Maybe for most people this is not an issue and there are much more important things that need to be sorted out by Asobo.
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Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
But mama, that‘s where the fun is…
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Hi!
The reason for you not beeing “blinded” by looking at the sun in the sim is simply due to monitor tecnology not beeing able to produce such bright light.
The best option is to use a HDR display, and run in HDR mode.
I use an Alienware AW3423DW QD-Oled display, and 1000 NITS is max for this.
The real power of the sun is 1.6 Billion NITS at noon. Old LCD monitors can normally produce up to 250-300 NITS in SD mode.
Freddy
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Make sure that Bloom is enabled.
Yesterday I was doing a night flight & I went close to the top beacon light & it was so bright that my whole room was red
missed opportunity for “Surely you can’t be serious”
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one note:
we have some discussions about the Eye-Adaption ( example: Eye adaption has been removed ) , inclusive a Wish-Topic to make it more “adjustable” because some users like it as it is, some others not.
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Can’t believe all the vitriol here. No way should anyone want to look directly into the sun, but such brief accidents do happen, at least to me, when in flight sim. The CFS IL2 and IIRC FSX has this effect implemented. It occurs when the center point of the screen is the disc of the sun, which produces a bright white blanching out effect for the entire screen. This IMO decently models the IRL visual effect (though without the sun’s damaging effect, but hey that laser suggestion was ‘spot on’ 
), and is a nice touch in the way of immersion. Since my topic got punted out of the wishlist forum I assume this ‘wish’ is DOA. Oh well worth a try, now back to sim flying.
It blinds you with HDR on.
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Yes,
I just want to say that, I had today one flight from Slovakia to Romania, direction mostly to S, looking to front in my Seneca all was very bright and sun lightning on Seneca’s front fuselage, to me very good effect!
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@AcidBath6450 you may find these relevant
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Can you find one, just one, real life example of a pilot being stupid enough to look into the sun and blinding themselves?
I was somewhat surprised that bullets don’t actually kill you in Call of Duty.
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