One more of the absurd decisions made by FD without listening to anyone.
A lot of hype, but the new lighting…
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One more of the absurd decisions made by FD without listening to anyone.
Looks great to me
I thought multiple light sources from stars were going to be added in this update? I was sure they had a demo of the new lighting effects at one point. Say it aint so?
Let's be specific about the "new lighting" because it's more than one change.
Stuff lit by reflected light looks better under the new system. May require some settings tweaks to make it look at its best but it does look better.
But this over-blasted "local star stomps all over the color gradient" as a whole frame filter makes EVERYTHING that emits light - cockpit lights, HUD, thrusters, ship running lights, the entire galactic backdrop, look like crap.
Stuff lit by reflected light looks better under the new system. May require some settings tweaks to make it look at its best but it does look better.
But this over-blasted "local star stomps all over the color gradient" as a whole frame filter makes EVERYTHING that emits light - cockpit lights, HUD, thrusters, ship running lights, the entire galactic backdrop, look like crap.
You all need to rejoice, because as bad as the lighting looks in certain places on good systems, it makes the already-broken shadows on PS4 look ten times worse! I mean, it's really HORRIBLE, to the point where I think I'm just going to shelve the game until (if) it's fixed. All this fancy new gameplay stuff (which I like) will be there when (if) I come back.
Admittedly, as much as I'm saying it looks good, I'm mostly speaking for space where most of the game takes place. There is a bit too much bloom to avatars, with a milky pink hue as well. Parts of text, such as "Wanted" or "Hostile" looks too saturated and smudged and unreadable. Some areas look a tad fuzzy. But generally, I feel the lighting has added life to combat, ambience and some elements of what's visible in space.
I do not like the asteroid fog from cracked open rocks, though. Even in a pitch black ring, that dust cloud is lit up with a white glow. It looks well out of place.
I do not like the asteroid fog from cracked open rocks, though. Even in a pitch black ring, that dust cloud is lit up with a white glow. It looks well out of place.
Just a small point here. You said:
I could be wrong, but I understand that the galaxy and nebulae no longer act as a light source. Even in the centre of the galaxy where the overall brightness of stars around you is extreme, the 'dark side' of a planet is now totally black.
Is there anyone near the galactic centre that can validate this?
I could be wrong, but I understand that the galaxy and nebulae no longer act as a light source. Even in the centre of the galaxy where the overall brightness of stars around you is extreme, the 'dark side' of a planet is now totally black.
Is there anyone near the galactic centre that can validate this?
"New Lighting" turned out to be a lie. It's something they were talking about doing back at the beginning of Beyond, but they dropped it along with planetary surface improvements, fleet carriers, and probably a bunch of other stuff I've forgotten.
Anyway they added dynamic Instagram filters to make the game look more like No Man's Sky because they heard that was cool now.
Anyway they added dynamic Instagram filters to make the game look more like No Man's Sky because they heard that was cool now.
You are correct to a certain extend: The planet's dark side is no longer illuminated (or maybe very, very, very little) so that it looks more realistic. However the ships (and other artificial structures) were (and presumably still are) reflecting some scattered light from the galaxy and the nebulae. I still have not played with the 3.3 so maybe this has changed too. If someone could correct me on this though. Also I've never been to the galactic core so I don't know how it looked pre 3.3..
This was meant to be the flagship fix and improvements patch. Be bad PR to admit it was a mess up.
For a game that is meant to be a graphical marvel. Its crashed out. will they fix it? probably in a year or 2
Simply put, anything which is it's own light source should not be affected by the colour of another light source. For example, the colour output of your monitor remains unchanged regardless of which colour light bulb you use in your room.
Also, internal locations (e.g. station and building interiors) should not be be affected by external light colours.
Hopefully this is something FDev can remedy.
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Would you be willing to test a GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml that replaces the 3.3 HDR node setting with those from 3.2?
Nope!
If the degree of the bloom is the issue, this is easy to fix on PC.
It really only bugs me in stations - it appears someone put fog machines in all the stations. Maybe that's the overall increased gamma, but it was immediately noticeable to me and maybe it has to do with the new volumetric fog effects? Just don't know why there would be fog inside a station..
Seeing my first ELW close to a yellow star was a bit jarring, it did indeed seem to glow "white" a bit - less blue overall and almost like a candy coating on it compared to the night before, but I can understand that due to being close to the star (It was the pair of ELWs that Cabana Market sits by).
The station interiors feel worse overall, though. The increased gamma and volumetric fog there kind of put me off.
Seeing my first ELW close to a yellow star was a bit jarring, it did indeed seem to glow "white" a bit - less blue overall and almost like a candy coating on it compared to the night before, but I can understand that due to being close to the star (It was the pair of ELWs that Cabana Market sits by).
The station interiors feel worse overall, though. The increased gamma and volumetric fog there kind of put me off.
I don't think it's so much an increase to gamma as it is a reduction of the base dynamic range to allow for the new bloom effects to be more apparent.
Starports do have atmosphere, so some haze makes sense.
Starports do have atmosphere, so some haze makes sense.
All points raised by people during beta...