game looks beige and this is a major disapointement

Brian of Ardagh

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What is this beige you speak of?

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Looks pretty purple to me. :D
 

Brian of Ardagh

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Valorin said:
And did you see how the local star tints the background skybox?!?
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I see that the star is tinting my cockpit screen edges but the stars in the distance, viewable in the center, don't look tinted to me. Even the nebula (Orion?) looks pretty normal to me.

You can see other shots from that same region in the album. https://imgur.com/a/1birWDG

I also took shots in Beta-3 Tucani https://imgur.com/a/O4MaCmW In that album I rotated the ship around until I was facing 180 deg from the star, although the images aren't in a sequential order. I also took a shot from outside the ship and it looks pretty good to me. I have seen shots taken my others that do look pretty bad but I don't see that kind of coloration. I have some shots from a red dwarf that show the skybox to be much redder than I would expect and I noticed a difference in color when in normal space vs. SC. The color change from normal to SC can be see in the last 2 images in the Beta-1 Tucanae album: https://imgur.com/a/1birWDG
 

Wizz15

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S0rkvild said:
2) & 3) are in game settins, but where do I set RGB range?
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And if you have an AMD card, you can find it by going to Radeon Settings -> Display -> Pixel Format (select "RGB 4:4:4 Pixel Format PC Standard (Full RGB)".

The one you don't want to use is the one that says "RGB 4:4:4 Pixel Format Studio (Limited RGB)"

EDIT: I knew about this from my PS3, it used to have a setting for this as well (switching between full range and limited for HDMI). So this might even work for PS4/Xbox if it doesn't default to it.
 
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CMDR Karrde Sun

CMDR Karrde Sun
Just wanted to say again how much I love the washed out look.

It’s a tale of 2 games isn’t it... outside in space it’s as colourful as a clown at a kids birthday (and feels a bit like that too in red systems) yet the stations.. are nice and gritty once you get the gamma right.
 
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Vandaahl

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Lol, this thread together with that threadnaught about the coloring of the background shows how much all over the place feedback is :D
 

Simon Templar

Simon Templar
jacozilla said:
You forgot the most important factor - individual user preference and subjective like/dislike.

I'm fine with the camp that says the new lighting is great. Same for the camp that says too washed out (which I'm in).

The issue is when idiots on both sides insist there can't exist both equally valid impressions - it doesn't have to be looks great and anyone saying washed out is just uneducated how to reset their gamma, RGB, etc., or vice versa. It can totally be FD dialed the lighting such that a significant group now finds it less appealing.

If FD thinks the middle of the bell curve is skewed to far to either end, then they'll think they need to adjust. If they think there are equal groups who like, dislike, and don't care - then they'll just shrug and think can't please everybody because even getting a large group like us to ~1/3 liking, 1/3 dislike, and 1/3 doesn't care is a balance achievement to them.

So the real issue, the rot that is just eating away at some people's craw, is they fear people speaking up will cause FD to realize there IS a significant group that dislikes the new lighting balance. Hence all the venom back and forth as people on BOTH camps try to insist the other side must be wrong, not doing settings correctly, etc. It's the same eternal forum war it's always been - some people can't stand that others not only disagree, but won't admit that they are 'wrong' by that person's standards.
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Couldn't agree more (and for me, washed out station interior, and weirdly glowing station exterior are the main issue. Cartoonishly coloured planets I guess I'll have either to live with or leave game over - jury out) - the other thing is that console gamers (like me - work from home, can't have Elite on the laptop as I'd just do that all day, fail to pay the mortgage, and the four junior Templars would be kicked out of school and life would generally unravel) are generally using their TV rather than a dedicated display. We have a very expensive 50'' TV with surround sound, the works (too many kids and not enough childcare - never get to the cinema so brought it to us, plus the kids all like FIFA and WWE) on which everything else looks incredible, from films to gaming (across three different consoles) to TV, my only graphical issue is now with Elite, post-update. The ever-lovely Mrs Templar is not going to take kindly to my changing the settings on the TV every time I play Elite, when we change them for nothing else. We are all on and off the screen a fair bit, it simply wouldn't be workable. So if I am to persist with Elite (which I really, really want to) then I need to be able to affect the way it looks from within the game.

Between luminous stations, a washed out dashboard and the achingly boring and laboriously over-complicated (and did I mention boring) exploration minigame I'm suddenly having my very own Blue Christmas. So some good news on the graphics front would be incredibly welcome.

o7
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
I just* want a galaxy that looks a little more like one of these. You know, REALISTIC. (Oh oh, I just said the trigger word, awakening half the forum like angry bees protecting their nest of existentialism. Run for your lives!)

* well that and decent shadows :p
 
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Brian of Ardagh

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Old Duck said:
I just* want a galaxy that looks a little more like one of these. You know, REALISTIC. (Oh oh, I just said the trigger word, awakening half the forum like angry bees protecting their nest of existentialism. Run for your lives!)

* well that and decent shadows :p
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I live out in the middle of nowhere with little light pollution. While I have seen the Milky Way look brighter and more colourful than in ED I have never seen it look like any of those photos, not even after dark adaptation of 30 minutes or more. I agree with your sentiment and I would like ED to look more realistic, but unless the ship's cockpit glass and HUD can enhance the skybox I wouldn't expect it to look like those photos.
 
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