ZecMurphy
Community Assistant
Hi All
The 'post processing settings', as evidenced by them requiring the 'developer tools' to be enabled, is intended for development use only, and isn't intended for actually adjusting the lighting in Trainz for general usage... If the brightness in Trainz is off, and you have checked the calibration of your screen, then the first place to start should always be the environment settings. These have a 'brightness' slider now, which allows you lighten/darken the overall lighting at each time point; in addition to the sun/ambient colour option.
Adjusting the post processing developer settings can have unexpected changes in Trainz, since it is an 'all or nothing' tool, and as such is not recommended for regular use.
Is it a 1-click-fixes-everything tool? No.
If you really really really need to force the gamma up/down, then generally the nvidia/amd control panels can provide this. But keep in mind that this can drastically change the look of Trainz without actually solving the issue (ie if the environment settings are configured for a bright sunny day, it will still look like a bright sunny day that you've made 'darker' on all parts - so still lots of contrast and now excessively dark shadows, with bright highlights).
It takes a little practice, but you can easily make alternate environment settings in a route or session in a few minutes. Personally, my method, with TRS22, is something along these lines:
1) Reset to default enviros
2) Choose the sky I want
3) Now set the sun/ambient colour at each required time for the session (ie if you are making a session where you only want to do 8am till 10am; you only need to tweak the time points either side and within that time range).
4) Now set the sky colours as required
Remember that the less contrast you have between sun and ambient, the duller your shadows will be.
As a note, a 'blank' session that only has environment settings can in some cases be cloned, and the map-asset tag changed to point to another map if you wish to apply those enviro settings to another route. As always, doing things like this is at your own risk, but can be handy to quickly copy the settings to another route in some cases. Personally though, I've found I prefer making them each time as it means that they aren't always identical, which is generally more natural
Regards
The 'post processing settings', as evidenced by them requiring the 'developer tools' to be enabled, is intended for development use only, and isn't intended for actually adjusting the lighting in Trainz for general usage... If the brightness in Trainz is off, and you have checked the calibration of your screen, then the first place to start should always be the environment settings. These have a 'brightness' slider now, which allows you lighten/darken the overall lighting at each time point; in addition to the sun/ambient colour option.
Adjusting the post processing developer settings can have unexpected changes in Trainz, since it is an 'all or nothing' tool, and as such is not recommended for regular use.
Is it a 1-click-fixes-everything tool? No.
If you really really really need to force the gamma up/down, then generally the nvidia/amd control panels can provide this. But keep in mind that this can drastically change the look of Trainz without actually solving the issue (ie if the environment settings are configured for a bright sunny day, it will still look like a bright sunny day that you've made 'darker' on all parts - so still lots of contrast and now excessively dark shadows, with bright highlights).
It takes a little practice, but you can easily make alternate environment settings in a route or session in a few minutes. Personally, my method, with TRS22, is something along these lines:
1) Reset to default enviros
2) Choose the sky I want
3) Now set the sun/ambient colour at each required time for the session (ie if you are making a session where you only want to do 8am till 10am; you only need to tweak the time points either side and within that time range).
4) Now set the sky colours as required
Remember that the less contrast you have between sun and ambient, the duller your shadows will be.
As a note, a 'blank' session that only has environment settings can in some cases be cloned, and the map-asset tag changed to point to another map if you wish to apply those enviro settings to another route. As always, doing things like this is at your own risk, but can be handy to quickly copy the settings to another route in some cases. Personally though, I've found I prefer making them each time as it means that they aren't always identical, which is generally more natural
Regards