Sunglasses?

[CptLucky8]

@thecalvrsimer

I lowered the sun visor that was in front of me, and everything came to life, I could suddenly see those beautiful clouds in all their glory, the amazing details in the mountains, everything felt right as if I was wearing real sunglasses. It was a really cool effect.

Indeed, there isn’t much needed to make ligthing in VR better…

@CptLucky8

The main drawback of the increased luminosity to me is not much the clouds themselves, but the metering which is over exposing based on the total render average luma:

This is a problem in 2D and it is even more a problem in VR. This is why I’ve suggested the implementation of a spot metering or a weighted average system instead. Preliminary tests using the SteamVR FOV adjustment is showing me better results in averaging luma on the center quartile of the image (FOV 50%):

[BUG/FEATURE] Implement a metering system better suited for VR

… with a working pair of sun glasses:

@CptLucky8

Having said this and to keep things in balance, keeping the higher reflectivity would also require implementing this feature in my opinion:

[FEATURE REQUEST] Can you please add a “Sun Glasses” mode ? (not a joke)

TL;DR: if you’ve already tried looking to the sun in game through a sun visor in an aircraft, the suggestion is to make is a standard option you can toggle with the same rendering principle as the sun visor but in front of the camera eye(s). This works great as-is with the game renderer,

nothing complex to add than a follow-the-camera 3D glass material in front.