Beware the chrome paint jobs...

n13L5

n13L5
They look nothing like chrome.


More like corroded aluminum.


The most disappointing paint jobs for me have been Chrome and Gold (which ranges in tint between 3 day old dog pee and brown)
Lost 12 bucks on the Viper Chrome paint when I bought it and of course, Frontier won't refund your money.


This is especially disappointing, since we know on they *can* get much closer to an actual chrome look than this, from looking at the reflectivity on the Orca windows:


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Can you please do some work to fix the chrome, FD? add the Orca's window reflections to a smooth silver and the "chrome" paint jobs and it will feel much less like a car paint shop cheating you out of your money.

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TomP

TomP
Erm, depending on the lighting, the chrome takes on different hues. If you find a station or outfitting with white light, you will see that it really is chrome; same goes for the gold.
 

CMDR Pugwash

CMDR Pugwash
I've had the Chrome paint job for my Cobra Mk III since just after launch I think. I found that it often looks odd and seems to be reflecting the colour of the hanger bay it is in.
 
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Faybs

Faybs
CMDR Pugwash said:
I've had the Chrome paint job for my Cobra Mk III since just after launch I think. I found that it often looks odd and seems to be reflecting the colour of the hanger bay it is in.
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Isn't that what it should be doing?

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Arry said:
That could be a lot smoother. It looks like the paint has been applied with too much air pressure and got an Orange peal effect.
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I'd like to know what it looks like when it's weathered down (now that weathering finally works!). Could someone thinking of doing a Hutton run anyway put on a chrome paintjob and post a screenshot when you get there?
 

n13L5

n13L5
Trinity Star said:
Seems okay here on the Cutter:

Seems you've found the one station in a thousand, where the gold looks like gold.

Problem remains, that it looks like orange peel.
Is that the idea of the same FD employee that made the cockpit windows impossible to clean?
I don't know about you, but when I drive, I keep my windshield and my sunglasses sparkly clean - just more fun to drive that way.


As for the chrome, my point stands:
1) Chrome is smooth, not patterned or textured.
2) the reflections of Chrome are not diffuse, but stark, like the reflections of the Orca windows.


Beyond that, why would FD make the paint jobs (or station lighting) in such a way, that they look like crap in the great majority of stations as well as in space, no less...?
That can't exactly be helping their sales...



I will say, that the Onionhead paint job looked great pretty much anywhere, but you couldn't get that for anything but the Cobra.
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Arry

Arry
n13L5 said:
Trinity Star said:
Seems okay here on the Cutter:

Seems you've found the one station in a thousand, where the gold looks like gold.

Problem remains, that it looks like orange peel.
Is that the idea of the same FD employee that made the cockpit windows impossible to clean?
I don't know about you, but when I drive, I keep my windshield and my sunglasses sparkly clean - just more fun to drive that way.


As for the chrome, my point stands:
1) Chrome is smooth.
2) the reflections of Chrome are not diffuse, but stark, like the reflections of the Orca windows.


Beyond that, why would FD make the paint jobs (or station lighting) in such a way, that they look like crap in the great majority of stations as well as in space, no less...?
That can't exactly be helping their sales...
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I think the problem is; that true Chrome is not 'painted on'. It is an electrolysis dipping process. So we need a very very big tanks, to dip the ships in.
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vrseven

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Its the lighting in some of the stations and bases. After 2.2 went live I thought the Black Friday PJs changed color to Grey, it was the lighting that made it look that way. Oh and if anyone from FD is reading this thanks for the SLF tactical PJ pack, please release Tactical PJ pack for the Cutter and Corvette, thank you. <3
 

Snarfbuckle

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It's very dependant on lightning.

My Cobra MKIII looked horrible but at certain station and locations then it looked good.

But it varies wildly.

The main think I think is that the texture seems very...rough, more like sandpaper than polished chrome.

Or perhaps more like polished metal.

And polished metal is not chrome.
 
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Deleted member 38366

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I reckon if the chome was high-polish chrome, we'd see all the reflections - but also discover that those reflections use a very poor and severely compressed LowRes Texturing.
I'd rather not have that, because that IMHO looks very ugly.

Too bad there's no quality Option for these Reflections. It seems stuck at "Very Low".

But if there was, I'd sure like to see an SRV and the entire terrain being mirrored near the Parked Ship's bottom :D
 
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bootsam

bootsam
It looks like that rubbish chrome you'd get on plastic items rather than the deep chrome you get on metal. Anyone familiar with chrome horn castings on a p-range vespa will know what I mean.

Chrome sucks. It requires endless polishing.
 
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