Night Vision Goggles
From Rise: The Vieneo Province
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| Price: | 2658 CR |
| Restrictions: | Unrestricted |
| Average Weight: | 3.2 kg |
| Average MTBF (maintained): | Not applicable hours |
Night Vision Goggles (NVG) enhance available light in the first-person view. Rise uses a color night-vision presentation.
Use
Select the goggles in the cargo manifest, under your personal baggage or vehicle cabin inventory, and use the displayed Shift+U Use command. Use the same item again to remove it. The optical effect applies to the first-person view; switching to an external camera does not apply it to that camera.
The overlay includes a compass and a central RNG readout. Range is shown in metres below 1 km and kilometres at greater distances; RNG --- indicates that a range is not available.
Lighting
NVG amplifies available light; it does not make opaque clouds transparent or create illumination where no signal exists. Enhancement fades as ambient light approaches daytime levels. Airglow and other faint cloud lighting can become more visible through the goggles.
Cockpit and displays: x64 development build, 16 October 2026
The cockpit lighting correction has passed automated tests and has been confirmed in live use. The subtle display optics follow-up has passed 10,807 native-renderer checks in x64 Release. The combined client has passed the x64 Release build as version 2.3.1.1, including validation of all 225 native shader variants. Fresh paired gameplay screenshots from that build remain pending; this section does not assert availability in an already distributed release.
Cockpit surfaces and windshield markings receive enhanced ambient light on both sides of the cloud deck. Below and within the clouds, they use the enhanced scattered light. Above the deck, they transition to enhanced sky light. Returning below the deck does not require removing and re-equipping the goggles.
The correction also amplifies the existing interior-lamp contribution reflected from cockpit surfaces, including the red cabin lighting. This matters above the atmosphere, where sky illumination can be effectively zero while the cockpit still has its own light. Dome-light illumination of windshield markings uses the same response. Cabin power still controls the source light; NVG does not illuminate an unpowered, otherwise unlit cabin.
Powered monitors and tablets receive a subtle halo around bright features and slight highlight washout toward white through NVG. The sharp original lettering remains underneath the halo, and warning colors retain their distinction. Dark screen areas remain dark away from nearby highlights. The effect is confined to each screen's texture region, including vehicles with several screens grouped in one mesh component; adjacent instruments do not contribute to its bloom. Low-power screen blanking still applies.
The existing display interlace remains. There is no added persistence, delayed instrument data or new flicker timing. The optical treatment follows the current frame and fades with the existing NVG response toward daylight. Removing the goggles or switching away from the first-person view restores the normal display appearance. Illuminated panel labels, HUD and GUI brightness are outside this display pass.
The response follows available light rather than flight mode, airspeed or Autoflyte engagement. It works during ground/hover operation, atmospheric flight, ascent, suborbital coast, orbit and re-entry. Sky illumination still decreases toward space, and zero sky illumination remains zero; existing cabin lights can still be enhanced there. The in-world simulator retains its existing lighting and display behavior. This is an artistic color-NVG presentation, not a measured spectral simulation of Vieneo's atmosphere or a real NVIS installation.
Cloud exposure and color preservation
This exposure follow-up has passed the x64 Release build (version 2.3.1.1, 16 October 2026) and native graphics tests at 1x, 2x, 4x and 8x MSAA. Tests cover cloud color and brightness through the deck, ascent/descent cases up to 500 km, unchanged cloud opacity, cockpit/HUD protection and removal of the goggles. CPU tests also include a 161-point climb and descent. Fresh paired gameplay screenshots remain pending; this section does not assert availability in an already distributed release.
The cloud exposure correction meters both scattered light and visible airglow. Green and cyan cloud detail remains enhanced while climbing through the deck or descending back into it. Bright colors are compressed together to retain their proportions instead of independently clipping red, green and blue to white. There is no deliberate color-mode switch at 10 km and no need to remove and re-equip the goggles after crossing the cloud top.
The response follows the available light in each frame, including above-cloud, suborbital and orbital views. Daylight fades the enhancement out. The in-world simulator keeps its existing lighting. Cloud opacity and weather remain unchanged, and this does not change the separate cockpit-display bloom or lightning flash-recovery behavior. Colors can still vary naturally with the mixture of airglow, scattered light and local illumination. This is a color-display calibration, not a new atmospheric chemistry model.
A controlled 25 km before/after render retained dark cloud structure and illuminated gaps, with changes concentrated in the bright highlights. Its camera, weather and lighting do not reproduce the accepted streamer capture exactly, so live visual parity with that view remains unverified.