Official Discussion: Upcoming Hotfix Announcement

[CptLucky8]

@Jummivana

• View from above 60,000 feet: You can still see the photogrammetry of Seattle. The terrain level of detail is more than 1 terrain pixel per 4K screen pixel.

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• Washed out Graphics and Cloud Appearance – Attempted improvements to the cloud appearance introduced an overexposure of the world. This will be addressed in the upcoming hotfix. We are planning on a brightness slider for an upcoming Sim Update to allow visual customization of your sim.

Hi Jayne,

Thank you for the update. My 2 cents with these two:

1. I believe you’d need at least 4 ground texture pixels per screen pixels at a minimum:
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   Nyquist frequency
   Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem

2. The issue is not just “over exposure” (although it is), and I don’t think a “brightness” slider is appropriate.
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   Instead, I’d suggest you consider something more robust and working both for 2D and VR:

@CptLucky8

I’d suggest FS2020 provides at least the following mandatory missing settings:

• Tone Mapping Gama slider
  allowing adjusting the game dynamic range because no all headsets have any brightness adjustment nor are restituting the full sRGB spectrum.

• Tone Mapping Brightness slider
  allowing adjusting the game white clipping because some headsets panels are not fully sRGB (the Index is clipping whites a little bit more than the Reverb G2 for example) and this shows badly when in VR.

• CAS Sharpen Strength slider
  allowing anyone adjusting the strength based not only on personal taste but also based on the render-to-display size ratios. In effect, it may require more or less strength to make this effect not overdone when using certain different size ratios.

NB: UserCfg.opt might only supports 0 or 1 but could be supporting 0.5 for example.

In addition, this one is most needed in VR (NB: this is just a LUT in the Pixel Shader code):

@CptLucky8

I’d suggest FS2020 using the following OpenXR extension and/or user provided equivalent values:

• For FB headsets: XR_FB_color_space

• Provide the end users with the means to setup the color space with the same input values (Chromacity Primaries in CIE 1931 xy, directly in the UserCfg.opt json file or in a companion file) whether it is a FB headset or not and whether the extension is present or not, so that end users can override the default in any case.