Is there a setting I could change somewhere that allowed me to control the brightness of the sky? The sky is too bright for my eyes either with or without HDR. I'm hoping there is something I can do that doesn't involve too much modding.
Have you tried changing the time of day or adding some cloud cover. It is pretty bright at midday. Also be sure to calibrate your screen and check contrast/brightness isn't too high.
Thanks for the reply! Adjusting these tends to lower brightness on everything. If I learn to adjust the HDR would I be able to lower the brightness of just the sky?
Yep. AirMassMult and SunScatrLum have an influence on the brightness and color of the sky. A higher WhitePoint might help too. There is also a turbidity setting in the devmode weather tab, but you can't set this ingame (hard coded).