So, back in Horizon 3 I noticed that some cars have a rather weird lighting glitch in Cockpit view.
Sometimes the world would seem massively over- or sometimes underexposed, which gave a feeling of driving in the evening, when it was actually noon and vice versa.
Personally, I’m using Cockpit view like 90% of the time, so I abandoned some cars like the Aventador SV, because it had this lighting glitch the most severe.
In Horizon 4, the underexposing-glitch seems to have gone from what I’ve seen in the demo. However, the overexposing-glitch somewhat remains.
The below screenshots show a comparison between the Chase-, Hood- and Cockpit-view:
If you look at the sky, the road and the trees you can clearly notice that both of them are more exposed in the Cockpit view, making shadows and darker areas look somewhat unnatural.
In some scenarios this overexposure is more noticable than in others, especially when the sun is shining right into the cockpit.
On an HDR display this difference is even more striking, so sometimes the roads appear like they’re white instead of a darker grey.
I’d be glad if someone could clarify whether this is in fact a glitch or rather some sort of a design decision.