Author Topic: sortie filmed in bright sunlight is black as night in film viewer  (Read 1083 times)

Offline caldera

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I filmed this about a half hour ago.  It was nowhere near sunrise, nor sunset, yet it comes up completely black with a starry sky.  It sucks because I wanted to take a screenshot, which is now impossible. 
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Re: sortie filmed in bright sunlight is black as night in film viewer
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2026, 07:03:26 AM »
Just the film? Or is that what you saw when making it?

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Re: sortie filmed in bright sunlight is black as night in film viewer
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2026, 09:18:09 AM »
Thanks caldera, I found it using your film. It's only the film viewer. The film saves the arena's time and sun location correctly, but the viewer wasn't reading the sun location back, so it used the terrain's default instead. On natoma that put your 7 a.m. sortie before sunrise. It's fixed for the next patch, and your existing film will play back correctly with it.

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Re: sortie filmed in bright sunlight is black as night in film viewer
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2026, 02:21:09 PM »
Ya I just leave FV open and wait for time shift
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Re: sortie filmed in bright sunlight is black as night in film viewer
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2026, 04:31:29 PM »
Thanks caldera, I found it using your film. It's only the film viewer. The film saves the arena's time and sun location correctly, but the viewer wasn't reading the sun location back, so it used the terrain's default instead. On natoma that put your 7 a.m. sortie before sunrise. It's fixed for the next patch, and your existing film will play back correctly with it.

Thank you, sir!  :cheers:

This has happened on a few other rare occasions before.  Will the fix correct the issue on other maps as well?
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Re: sortie filmed in bright sunlight is black as night in film viewer
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2026, 09:21:21 PM »
Thank you, sir!  :cheers:

This has happened on a few other rare occasions before.  Will the fix correct the issue on other maps as well?


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Re: sortie filmed in bright sunlight is black as night in film viewer
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2026, 07:58:34 PM »
Success!  Sortie is in daylight now and I can see two direct rocket hits!  :cheers:
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