Constantly re-tuning brightness gets tiring. With a short test routine, you can settle on an exposure level that looks good in most of your world.
Test in several kinds of scenes
1. Pick three places to compare: a sunny outdoor area, a cave or dark interior, and somewhere at night.
2. Start in the outdoor area during the day. Open EzExposure's settings from the shader menu and set the exposure so daylight looks natural, not glaring.
3. Go to your dark spot. If you can't make out the blocks around you, raise the slider slightly.
4. Return outside and check that daylight still looks right.
5. Repeat these small back-and-forth adjustments until both scenes look acceptable.
6. Finish with a nighttime check before you settle on the setting.
Working with the vanilla Brightness setting
Vanilla Minecraft has its own Brightness option in Video Settings, ranging from Moody to Bright. Both settings change how bright the game looks to you, so it helps to pick one as your main control:
- Leave vanilla Brightness where you normally keep it.
- Do your fine-tuning with EzExposure's slider.
- If things still look off, change only one of the two settings at a time. That way you can tell which one made the difference.
You can still change the exposure whenever you like. Your chosen setting is just a comfortable baseline to come back to.