I've had this picture forever ...





Found myself in a similar situation -





National Geographic -



Wrecking Crew







Bisher - lets fly up high

lol love it!

Wow. That's awesome.

Nice.

Nice shot

Very Cool!

Rob

and you guys do still really like the odd vaseline look of DCS? its an aweful effect!
but nice pics indeed!

If you don't like the effect you can turn it off. I have it off on my PC.

That screenie in the middle was done with the HDR set to Cold - it does add a winter chill to the air; the pic was reduced down to 40% size. I've had it set on Hot, too, adds a yellow tint...

WC

Great take on a classic photo mate.

Debate the screenshot, but better yet press F1 and fly it -

Cozy4, I looked at my recent screenshots and wonder what you mean? -


On the edge of the cockpit, weps details, blades of grass.

I am going to set the HDR to Normal and post a comparison to see if that makes a diff.

Is it fuzzy to you?

WC

Snowy Warthog A-10C

Here are four screen shots from DCS A-10C 1.1.1.1, each with a different HDR setting. The screenies are full size capture. The respective HDR settings follow the screen shots.















Wrecking Crew

WC, *superb* comparison pictures there, thanks for posting those! I have a bit of pet peeve about HDR and these screenshots illustrate it in outstanding clarity:

In what possible way does this (which is what most HDR games are tuned to look like)



... look *better* than this



To me personally, the first picture appears very dull, muted and out of focus - TOTALLY unlike what the crisp, vivid real world looks to my eyes. It makes me squint at the screen as though I was *badly* drunk. Why do SO many developers (and in the case of DCS, quite a few users) deliberately make their games look like that? What was the frame rate in those two examples (HDR cold and HDR off, respectively), I assume HDR causes a performance penalty? So you'd get worse graphics that run slower with the vast majority of HDR implementations, why anybody would do this to themselves has never failed to boggle my mind. Although HDR can be done without everything becoming a blurry mess (some of the other settings you show demonstrate this quite nicely, an even better example is AeroflyFS), you sometimes wonder if it is worth the time and effort for the developers.

This isn't directed at you, just a rant about a pet issue of mine

Why does NatGeo have a picture of the A-10?

I think everything has way too less contrast and everything is washed-out ....
IMHO this is not a step towards realism.