As some of you may have noticed the “Night” setting looks funky. It doesn’t look like night time is supposed to look like to me. But there is a way to get properly dark night lighting and I don’t know if this is a bug or not. Blueprint a race and choose hot season, dawn, clear, fixed time. When you test drive you can get several variants of “dawn” lighting.
You’ll need to start the test drive then back out to the editor and start again until you get this one, a black sky. It seems random so it may take a few tries.
Run a few races in that last lighting condition and compare it to the actual “Night” setting and tell me it doesn’t look better. Races through sections with little ambient light like the jungle is dark like you would expect. You can only see as far as your headlights illuminate but lights in the distance are still properly bright so it isn’t just an overall darkening of the picture like with the interior view bug. Call me crazy but i think the HDR looks better too. FWIW I’m using a Series X in HDR10, but I’ve tried it with Dolby Vision with the same results. I’d love an explanation of what’s going on here(devs?).
What night racing SHOULD be like:
Here’s the difference it can make for the driving experience, for example at the little kink on the Montana Trail:
“Night”
“Dawn” special
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That’s not black sky. That’s dark grey. GIFs you have use SDR. SDR and HDR look a lot different.
Have you ever heard about light pollution? You can’t have dark night unless you’re very far from light sources.
Btw, where I live sky has reddish glow right now at 20:06. Sun set 5 hours ago so it is “night time”.
Put sunglasses on, problem solved 
Do night in mexio get really dark in the first place ? Like for us in sweden, summer months never get really dark. And on midsummer the sun never sets.
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Even better, turn display off and get simulated full night with simulated broken vehicle lighting. Or simulated blindness maybe. This game is full of awesome options !
To the question of does Mexico get full dark ? Away from population centers I’d guess yes, most if not all the time being so far south.
I’m not quite as far north as you in Sweden here in the middle of the Canadian prairie but except for a brief while in the middle of winter (sun still sets but can see a dawn glow through the night to the north) it does get full dark (not counting light pollution and the moon of course) and it’s beautiful when it does. Makes me look forward to the occasional night time power outages as an excuse to get outside.
FH5 “night” is atrocious, and short, and buggy (even the game doesn’t know when it’s night, even when you tell it), and the devs apparently like it that way.
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Light pollution does not give you night vision to see detail 20 kms away. But also, what light pollution? There is no city in any of the screens/gifs I posted. Don’t be afraid of the dark. Other racing games have gotten it right. Driveclub, FM 6/7, Assetto, GT, even Forza Horizon 4 all had realistic night lighting. Why should we accept mediocrity all of a sudden?
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You’re barking at wrong tree. Do you know how far north Finland is? We get less than 6 hours of daylight (time from sunrise to sunset) from early December to early January in southern parts and way less in northern parts.
Of course in summer we get so much light that even night is one long twilight in southern parts which means you can easily read book outside without use of any other lights.
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Hello i’ve built a no hesi map and i am trying to get the lighting your describing but i don’t thing i’m getting different lightings. It would make all the difference and i can see the dawn lighting you describe if i change the lighting while in the editor but not once test driving the map. please help
