100% Proof Planets have lost their colour. [UPDATED with official Dev reason and plan to improve]

malenfant

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Ziljan said:
Yeah as an astrophysics degree holder I'm not in love with the overly bright nebulae that are still visible especially when there are dimmed foreground stars.
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In addition to that, I'm really not in love with the nebulae and milky way getting significantly brighter when you're over the darkside of a planet. But that's the ambient lighting messing up. (I get that they want to simulate that in darkness we'd be able to see better, but they really overdo it. I've had dark sides of planets turn bright brown when the milky way is up! Or whatever colour a nearby nebula is, which is even more silly).
 
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Mengy

Mengy
malenfant said:
In addition to that, I'm really not in love with the nebulae and milky way getting significantly brighter when you're over the darkside of a planet. But that's the ambient lighting messing up. (I get that they want to simulate that in darkness we'd be able to see better, but they really overdo it. I've had dark sides of planets turn bright brown when the milky way is up! Or whatever colour a nearby nebula is, which is even more silly).
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Eh, to be completely honest I kind of like how nearby nebulas can light up dark sides of planets. It may not be "realistic" but it can allow for some incredibly beautiful locations. I suppose I just don't want to give up variety and scenery for realism, not all the way at least.
 

Ziljan

Ziljan
malenfant said:
In addition to that, I'm really not in love with the nebulae and milky way getting significantly brighter when you're over the darkside of a planet. But that's the ambient lighting messing up. (I get that they want to simulate that in darkness we'd be able to see better, but they really overdo it. I've had dark sides of planets turn bright brown when the milky way is up! Or whatever colour a nearby nebula is, which is even more silly).
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Whether it's realistic depends on what tech can do in the 34th century. We can do a primitive version of this with telescope optics and night vision goggles today using decades old technology of photo multipliers that amplify existing light in real time making objects appear as if we were using telescope/eyeball that has a much larger diameter objective mirror/lens than the one actually being used. Think of it like adaptive night vision goggles but for the whole canopy window and it starts to seem a bit more feasible.
 

shreddog

shreddog
Ziljan said:
Think of it like adaptive night vision goggles but for the whole canopy window and it starts to seem a bit more feasible.
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Speaking of that. I would really like a toggle added under the FUNCTIONS list to turn on and off that light-compensation feature. Kind of like turning on and off the ship lights. It could also enable full star brightness to show when turned off.
This would be really good for taking those nice screenshots or capturing video.
 
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Tristounet

Tristounet
I might be off topic, and i don't know if it has been already told (i honestly don't have the courage to read 43 pages). But today i was on Ariel and i didn't see any Mist. I stopped playing for months tho, so i don't know if it's a new issue or not...
 
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Oktusha

Oktusha
What people dont get is this is a damn game... They have got to stop being realistic programmers and start being more of an artist... Hell, people scream "science, realistic". There is NOTHING realistic about this game at all... lol... Okay prove to me that there is a "number" of planets in the closest solar system to us... There is NO ACTUAL evidence other than theory and a best guess due to some process they think shows they are there at all. They cannot actually tell what they look like, if they are there at all most of the time, or what is on them other than a best guess...

Bring color, elevation "mountains", and difference back please... ED needs to stop being programmers and bring a little art into the game... 95% of the moons I see now are the same, simple brown junk with a few craters on them...
 

lysan

lysan
Oktusha said:
What people dont get is this is a damn game... They have got to stop being realistic programmers and start being more of an artist... Hell, people scream "science, realistic". There is NOTHING realistic about this game at all... lol... Okay prove to me that there is a "number" of planets in the closest solar system to us... There is NO ACTUAL evidence other than theory and a best guess due to some process they think shows they are there at all. They cannot actually tell what they look like, if they are there at all most of the time, or what is on them other than a best guess...

Bring color, elevation "mountains", and difference back please... ED needs to stop being programmers and bring a little art into the game... 95% of the moons I see now are the same, simple brown junk with a few craters on them...
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The game was sold to be more to the realistic side instead of fantasy, if I want fantacy there are other options out there.
That do not mean that you can't have something that is very different even from at realistic point of view.

NASA's own picture lib are full of it.

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Jane Turner

Volunteer Moderator
Jane Turner
Ziljan said:
Just to reiterate, the realism debate was settled about 20 pages ago. Frontier acknowledged that their attempt to make it more realistic resulted accidentally in making it less realistic (ie beige). A fix for better realism with non-beige accurate colors is incoming.

Let's wait and see what we get. If it's Technicolor nonsense, we can sharpen our pitchforks again. I'm sure Frontier will do their best, and we'll be ready with more feedback for a future update ;)
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Landed here tonight
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SAB380

SAB380
Nice to see Frontier have commented.
...I might off hold on my planned long range exploration until its fixed. Don't want to wait 6 months though.
 

Good Death

Good Death
Has it happened? I noticed some colorful planets in Sol this evening.

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Well not really planets. The rocky bodies of Jupiter.
 

Aereon Theed

Aereon Theed
I landed on a multi-color world this evening, it was grey, green, and red. Not sure if that means this bug is fixed, or if this is an outlier.
 

Eros

Eros
Good troll post Oktusha ;) I love the ignorance of the "BUT ITS JUST THEORY"... to you guys the universe must be so stale and boring.

Evidence wise... maybe you should actually understand what the evidence is before being quite so arrogantly matter of fact about such things.

Our nearest start... the evidence is quite weak to be fair... to say there is NO evidence, is to be completely brain dead ignorant. There are lots of ways in which you may claim evidence for exoplanets. the best way is a transit. Since not only can you very very accurately determine lots of parameters, it gives you the possibility to probe the atmosphere also. Or you know... we could just not bother and do important things like... killing each other.
 
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