It's so dark!

I don't have HDR monitor. Default settings. If you can't see all bars on test image, you have to do something with your screen, but I'm not sure what exactly. There are brightness, contrast, gamma... I took that picture from this site <a href="http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/contrast.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/contrast.php</a> So I would suggest to dig little bit into it, if you want of course.

P_S_Y_C_H_O

Yep, I'll avoid this darkness. Thanks for feedback

P_S_Y_C_H_O

which isn't a huge deal, i play in full screen, so it takes 2 seconds to change the settings profile before i launch the game and back when I'm done. I don't expect you to go back and re-render old images, but it, would be nice if you could lighten things up moving forward, as I'd appreciate not having to do it in the future.

Jim Aladdin

without adjusting my settings, i can only barely see column 2, nothing at all from column 1. maxing out my brightness doesn't help. if i turn up my contrast, I can see all of the colors from all of the columns. but as i said, i have to return the settings to default when I'm done playing, because it makes my desktop unviewable

Jim Aladdin

What about calibrating image before arrival? Can you see all bars in all color lines?

P_S_Y_C_H_O

The images were too dark for me on my laptop monitor, I could barely make out figures, but not any kind of detail. Jacking the contrast WAY up allows me to see, but mucks up everything else on my computer so I can't see anything outside of the game without returning to default settings.

Jim Aladdin

I can see but it is dark . Would like more light to see better details. Some features are hard to see.

It's too dark for me. But I don't have an HDR screen. I'm quite sure that on my iPhone X or OLED TV it would be just perfect. My guess is that you use an HDR screen, or at least something close to, and therefore have much better contrasts in dark tones. On my 6 years old laptop, the first three shades in the test color image are fully black, even with lightness at 100%.

Shiva

It is most likely not film grain but low samples from the Global Illumination.

I am a VFX lighter by trade if your interested in some tips to relight this location feel free to message me.

Please no... I have a colour calibrated monitor so I really shouldn't change brightness or it will mess up the settings.

Maybe add something like: adjust the brightness until the box is just barely visible against the black

maydan90

I had no problem at all. Could see everything fine. The darkness fit the time of day perfectly.

Lingus

Honestly, I don't think the brightness is the problem. I think the (Film Grain) is too strong in the evening, so the lighting doesn't look natural, because it already looks like it was a lot darker, and someone tuned up the brightness via Settings. I personally find that film grain gets in the way of bright colors being eye popping, there for everything looking more washed out/flat. So my opinion, turn down the film grain, maybe turn up saturation instead, and leave the brightness as is. ^^

Ainārs (Hoodz)