night view

[teddybear052875]

hey all

Is there an easyer way to see at night using open rail?

thanks
Daniel

[srjason747]

First off, in the future put this in the open rails discussion forum. When the headlights are on, this is
realistic. As far as I know there is no way to just make it easier to see.

[teddybear052875]

sorry

forget what form i put my question in

thanks

[James Collins]

Maybe adjust your monitors brightness and/or contrast settings?

[lateagain]

Maybe adjust your monitors brightness and/or contrast settings?

Well you could! ...but you should never have to mess up a decently calibrated monitor to run any software. It's the software that needs fixing rather than the monitor? I have to agree that a route where a lot of effort went into creating an excellent viewable night environment in MSTS is almost unusable in OR.

Once you get out of major cities the visibility on all but the darkest and cloudiest nights is pretty good with average moonlight and at full moon times it can be almost as bright as that dreadful "Day for Night" technique they used in movies on old film stock.

IMHO the night environment should be brighter. BTW UK trains didn't carry ANY lights or headlights until 30+ years ago (other than oil lamps for identification) and even them they were introduced as a safety rather than viewing device. Our railways are fenced and signal controlled so it was thought I guess that the signal lamps were the most important view a driver should have at night? None the less on bright moonlit nights with the cab light out he would have had a better view than OR offers currently?