Viewport textures way too dark!

[siebejanssen]

Textured objects in my viewport are way too dark. This was never like this in Maya 2019. I need to crank exposure to 5 before I can see my objects which completely blows out my viewport. How the hell am I suppose to work like this???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52ggNHeLAw

[baez_isaac]

Hello siebejanssen,

 looks like someone else had the same issues with this on a different post but here is a link to that https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/viewport-texture-brightness-very-dark/td-p/4227972

If the issue is still occurring then I would try to switch your "View transform" from sRGB gamma(legacy) to something else. I have added a image of what my default setting are for an example. Also Ill add in this link to autodesk "Choose a view for previewing"  for reference. https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYACRE/ENU/?guid=GUID-A9CA3572-FAFA-440D-92EB-37566A2DFE0B 

Hopefully this helps you out with your problem.

[damaggio]

Apparently they've changed some of the viewport but you can try to adjust with the new Viewport 2.0 rendering setting Default Lighting>Light intensity....

From Chaos Group...."Autodesk has made this change in order to reach parity with PBR shading models and lighting in different renderers and to allow a better transition to an image based lighting by default and a hydra based viewport."

see if that helps.