Stars on 2.5.6?

Running a Reverb and have never done much night flying at all. The update greatly improved lighting with the exception of the performance hit. I can’t see any stars though. I generally run gamma at 1 but even increasing it I can’t see any. Moon has good lighting. Any suggestions or am I doing something wrong in settings?

WOW...the stars are especially nice now that they are so easily seen even at the lowest gamma setting so that can't be it. Are you flying below a solid cloud layer?

Weird. Tried to make a mission at 21:00 summer clear skies over Dubai. Maybe the city lights were affecting the sky but no I couldn’t see any even in external view sadly

Weird. Tried to make a mission at 21:00 summer clear skies over Dubai. Maybe the city lights were affecting the sky but no I couldn’t see any even in external view sadly

You say you tried, what prevented the mission from being created as you wanted? Try 23:00.

I saw no visible stars as well. On the last 2.5.5 version I could clearly see stars in PG in VR.

Try setting Gamma to a value between 1.8 and 2.2. At 1.0 all lighting, especially with a VR HMD will be unrealistic darkened. DCS uses High-dynamic-range rendering for lighting which opens up the bandwidth for colors, contrasts etc. check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dynamic-range_rendering. There is a simple check for realism, fly at high noon and clear sky, if you can easily look directly into the sun and clearly see it's round shape your gamma is set too low. Think of what happens if you do this in reality, you will burn your retina. If the sun blinds you with a huge glow, you are close to a realistic value.

Weird. Tried to make a mission at 21:00 summer clear skies over Dubai. Maybe the city lights were affecting the sky but no I couldn’t see any even in external view sadly

You were over Dubai, think of the light pollution

Alec, I’ve always had to keep my gamma low otherwise everything has been too bright and blinding. Even at 1 I can’t look directly into the sun and see it. It’s always made me wonder in the past if it was something unique to my system because I always read other people have had theirs up higher. Anyways I’ll play with that a bit. Maybe 21:00 in summer isn’t deep enough into the night yet. I’ll try later.

And yes I also wondered about light pollution over the city.

Alec, I’ve always had to keep my gamma low otherwise everything has been too bright and blinding. Even at 1 I can’t look directly into the sun and see it. It’s always made me wonder in the past if it was something unique to my system because I always read other people have had theirs up higher. Anyways I’ll play with that a bit. Maybe 21:00 in summer isn’t deep enough into the night yet. I’ll try later.

 

And yes I also wondered about light pollution over the city.

I think it's a Reverb thing, my Reverb is also extremely bright in DCS but fine everywhere else.

I can’t see a single star anywhere. No matter the gamma setting. Even at midnight with zero weather.

Deleted fxo and metashaders and did a repair.

Is there a full moon?

I had no problem seeing stars on my VR flights. The only real issue is that they were "blue". Not sure if thats a reverb thing or a more general problem.

Never saw the moon, though I did see the water reflection of it.

Yes the moon does look full. Does that matter?

Yes the moon does look full. Does that matter?

A full moon increases light pollution

A new moon (no moon) makes the stars very visible.