Occasionally & daily, the viewer image ramps up to blinding bright then slowly back
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Wendy Nitely
In daily use, for some months, the image in the viewer ramps to blinding bright and back again to normal. The duration of the brightness is < 10 seconds. The brightness isn't a flash, it ramps up and down. I am generally in default midday (SHIFT+CTRL+y), so I see it there, but also on various other EEPs.
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Atlas Linden
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Rheia Silvercloud
If I may, I've seen this behavior prior. What you are likely seeing/experiencing is the local reflection probe (whether sim-wide / auto-generated or local user-created ones) re-calculating for the change in sim sun position. Depending upon the existing EEP settings, this can be seen sometimes as simply a momentary "hiccup" where the probes cease to work, or, as you have experienced, as a ramp-up to a near-total white-out, then a settling back down as the probe(s) complete their calculation. As far as I have seen, the only solution I have found is to not use that given EEP preset / setting.
This effect can be reproduced, sometimes (I suspect it might be at least slightly hardware-dependent) by sometimes swapping through EEP settings.
I hope this has helped both you and Atlas Linden to get a handle on what this might be.
Atlas Linden
Hi Wendy,
Can you confirm if this is occurring with a still camera angle or are you noticing it while camming around? Just checking to see if this is related to the "auto-exposure". For instance, when you look at the sun, the image will darken.
Wendy Nitely
Hi Atlas,
One of the common places this is happening is in my skybox, it is surrounded by an opaque globe. During those times I am observing my surroundings while in the default camera. This is not something I see while camming. That area of my mainland estate (the skybox on Freyo) is on the default region shared environment.
I also see it at ground level on the same estate, the shared environment for ground is a parcel EEP of my creation. It's not a camming to the sun sort of thing. The image isn't darkening until after it has gone to blinding bright, then darkened back to normal.
I have seen this and switched to default midday and still experienced the same near instant brilliant bright, followed by a slow darkening to normal.
Atlas Linden
Hi Wendy,
I know you mentioned you're seeing this with the default Midday but is this the blinding brightness you're referring to? https://gyazo.com/17b0c80e5299b23ce1958e2b21d1d3f5
This can occur when moving in between very different EEP settings.
Otherwise, are you able to supply a clip of the brightness you're seeing?
Wendy Nitely
Atlas,
No, it is nothing like what I am seeing in your example video. My typical occurrence is in my skybox (elevation 1025m). The skybox is surrounded by an opaque black sphere. No camming is occurring. Neither the sky or sun is not visible. There is no "total wash out to white". *Changes between EEPs are not occurring.
* I have a custom EEP for the sky at Ground Level only. It simulates fog. I don't want fog in the skybox so what I ended up with is this:
It might be interesting to note that the brightness issue I am seeing doesn't occur upon teleporting to the skybox, I can be there for an hour or more before I see it.
I can't force it to occur and I have no warning, the whole cycle takes less than 5 second, I don't know how I'd manage to capture a video, or image, but I will attempt it.
The biggest difference between your gyazo and what I am seeing are:
- No camming is occurring.
- The sky is not visible.
- There is nothing that appears totally white, such that the textures are no longer discernable.
What's happening is that that the brightness ramps up to very bright, as if the entire scene was under very bright lights. Colors and textures are still discernable and are realistic. This occurs over a couple seconds. Then, after a moment, the brightness returns to normal (over the course of a few seconds, but more slowly than the transition to bright occurred).
Let me know if there is anything I can clarify. And thank you for your assistance.
Best, ~Wendy Nitely
Atlas Linden
Thanks for the info Wendy,
Does this brightness only affect the viewer? Or do you happen to also notice it on the desktop or other apps?
You mention that this occurs after some time while set to Midday (a static EEP setting) so the only other thing I can think of (outside of reflection probes as Rheia in a previous comment) is that there could be some sort of object that is being triggered or flying nearby at these intervals.
If you're ever able to record this brightness occurring we can try to investigate this further.