Custom adjustable screen brightness and unified interaction logic.

1st Official Post

    Hi developer, please allow users to fully customize the A350 screen brightness.

    Currently, the A350 screen brightness follows the phone’s screen brightness adjustment, meaning all displays are forced to maintain the same brightness level.

    In the simulator, users are actually able to adjust the A350 screen brightness, but it is always forced to follow the phone’s brightness setting.

    In addition, because the A350 MFD screen is inverted, if the physical button logic of the MFD is not adjusted accordingly, the button functions will also appear inverted.

    This means that due to the inverted screen, the functionality of the brightness adjustment buttons is inconsistent with other displays.

    On other screens, the ↑ button increases brightness and the ↓ button decreases brightness.

    However, on the MFD screen, the ↓ button increases brightness and the ↑ button decreases brightness.

    This does not conform to a unified interaction logic, and the two brightness adjustment button functions on the MFD screen should be swapped.

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    • Official Post

    To my knowledge there is not a single line of code in our application that checks for the actual screen brightness of your device, all screens across all aircraft are rendered totally independent of what you set as your physical device brightness.

    The real world A350 displays change their brightness based on ambient light, using a light sensor. We simulate this based on the time of day in the simulation but it's not perfect of course.

    The physical installation direction should not impact what the button does. Please proof to us that the lower device, which is installed upside down in the real aircraft, actually flips the brightness logic of the hardware buttons, then we can of course reverse the logic in the sim as well. Until then we assume that the button does the same logic regardless of the installation orientation, which means the arrow pointing away from the screen should increase brightness, the arrow pointing towards the screen should decrease brightness.

    Regards,
    Jan

    Quote from Jet-Pack (IPACS)

    The real world A350 displays change their brightness based on ambient light, using a light sensor. We simulate this based on the time of day in the simulation but it's not perfect of course.

    Yes, the automatic adjustment feature is still not perfect—for example, during night flights, the screen brightness is not dark enough.

    In addition, I would like to ask: in Aerofly, why is it that only on the A350, after manually adjusting the screen brightness, the value cannot be fixed? It always automatically returns to its previous brightness. In reality, the A350 does have manual brightness adjustment controls, and it should be possible to manually set and lock a brightness level, right?

    I’m not very familiar with this, I would really like to know the answer.

    Okay, I’ve figured out how to operate it.👌