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RTX: less aggressive auto exposure, dark areas should be darker

Current Minecraft RTX version has auto exposure built in, which makes everything brighter when you are for example exploring dark dungeons. This makes the whole idea of realistic lighting pointless. On my calibrated display exploring unlit dungeons almost looks like daytime. If you lit a torch in total darkness, shadows and far away areas get darker than with no torches at all, so exploring is actually a lot easier with no torches.

I've read that it used to be different and auto exposure was added in a recent update, probably in 1.16.30.52 (1 Sep 2020), since the changelog mentions "Improvements to night vision." I understand that this is preferable to some people, but not everyone.

Please offer a slider or a toggle for auto exposure, so areas with no light at all are completely dark as they should be.

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    I can confirm.

    I think I understand the idea behind this "auto exposure". But there needs to be a cutoff where bright stuff stays bright, and in that particular instance, dark stuff stays dark.

    A cave without any light source should be pitch black.

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    Yes, please make this "Night vision" toggle-able so that we can have the option to not have caves in RTX permanently dimly lit, I can't understand the reason for this at all.  Almost seems like a bug to me, I won't play it until it is fixed, I am sure I am not the only one that thinks this.

    EDIT:  Just checked it seems to do it with non RTX textures too on windows 10 version, not tried Java version yet.

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    I have to agree with this, i understand that in normal minecraft, its neccesary to have at least a little bit of light from a gameplay standpoint, but with RTX bringing lighting closer to how it is in real life, i think it would only be fair for it to be completely dark in unlit rooms.

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    Agreed, renders torches in caves useless from a visual perspective since they will make your surroundings actually darker than the obnoxiously well-lit cave you get without them. Breaks the game immersion in RTX which otherwise would be fantastic to actually get to play through in survival mode.

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    I fully agree, the auto exposure in some instances looks so bad id rather play without rtx like in huge caves in the 1.19 update

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    The areas which were 100% dark in Vanilla no longer have that true darkness anymore which ruins a lot of sceneic setups. It's awful that for full darkness you need to have a light source in the view to "outshine" the dark parts of the scene