P3Dv4 cockpits appear dim to me

[Michael Blakely]

I find that cockpits in P3Dv4 seem quite dim. During the day, it seems not much daylight reaches the surfaces. The digital displays are OK, but the other knobs and switches are harder to see than I remember in FSX.

Anyone else have this experience?

[Wayne Pierce]

I do not have the problem during the day.

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Daylight PMDG panel.

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Dome light off.

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Dome light on.

Changing the HDR setting to off/ on do not do much. The Brightness control is only available with HDR on and it works better at night for the panel but blows the color out during the day.

[Wayne Pierce]

Also I do not have the "Internal vehicle shadows" activated, do you. The lighting in the Prepared is great and I like the shadows, but the cockpit shadows are a little much at times.
Just saying.
Below the first picture is with the cockpit shadows turned on. QW B787
The second is with them turned off.

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[Michael Blakely]

SOLVED:
Wayne, that was it! I turned off the in-cockpit shadows and that totally lit up the panels. Thanks.

[Theodore Martin]

Mike, I noticed the same earlier this year. Here are pics I took to compare FSX and P3Dv4. Both are from my iFly 737NG.

The pedestal in FSX

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The pedestal in P3Dv4.5

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And at a broader scale I've noticed my colors were more vivid in FSX than in P3D and the quality was not as sharp. I figured it was a config problem and I started trying to adjust using HDR and the brightness/contrast controls. Here are two shots I took, when first getting P3D running, at an Alaskan airport (I think Juneau) from the same perspective and at the same time.

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Screenshot - P3D.JPG (233.29 KiB) Viewed 1792 times