More fixes to lighting needed

Pigletslastand

Pigletslastand
I've just discovered a possible explanation for what's happening with the lighting. When being asked to display colours together often computers take a square root of an average value and then later square it for display.. this leads to an incorrect brightness value as the values being compared need to be first squared and then averaged before being square rooted and then later squared for the display.

@sallymorganmoore please could you show this video to someone in the lighting department as they might understand it better and it could be the cause of some of these problems we are seeing. I don't pretend to know as much as they do, but if it helps, it helps.

Source: https://youtu.be/LKnqECcg6Gw
 

LoneTech

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Mogen Teras said:
I hope FDev knows about it. Their recent Dev update however concerns me as their phrasing makes it sound like most of the lighting concerns and fixes revolve mostly around cockpits :(
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Frankly, it smells like they are trying to divide the player base over this. Instead of addressing the system breakage they introduced, they want us split among all the myriad places that are affected, so they can claim it's only a few people who notice each one and sweep it under the "expired" rug. It smells like their management decided they're only allowed to do superficial tweaks, not system correction, and even that only where there's a lot of pressure, and they're trying to address the uproar instead of the issues.

We have a saying: "You broke it, you should fix it."
 

Mogen Teras

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LoneTech said:
Frankly, it smells like they are trying to divide the player base over this. Instead of addressing the system breakage they introduced, they want us split among all the myriad places that are affected, so they can claim it's only a few people who notice each one and sweep it under the "expired" rug. It smells like their management decided they're only allowed to do superficial tweaks, not system correction, and even that only where there's a lot of pressure, and they're trying to address the uproar instead of the issues.

We have a saying: "You broke it, you should fix it."
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Yeah the phrasing in the last two of their public announcements has made it seem like the Gamma, Contrast and Brightness issues are only an issue purely because of "commander expectations" and not because of it actually being intrinsically broken. As if it's our fault it's even requiring attention.
 

Pigletslastand

Pigletslastand
If you blame your customers and don't listen..that's how you lose half the player base for good. Your choice Frontier.

Most of my friends are gone from the game now and are playing other things. I'm really annoyed with Frontier and how much they've messed this up.
 

FX2K

FX2K
Zac Cocken said:
Hey @FX2K - could you please create an Issue in the Issue Tracker relating to the difference in lighting depending on whether you're on-foot, in your SRV, or in ship please? Screenshots/locations etc would be very useful!

Issue Tracker

issues.frontierstore.net issues.frontierstore.net
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I'm hoping that since you asked for the report, the status and lack of my begging for confirmations/votes doesn't mean its now in the bin, since the report has now expired, but still a problem. These reports don't last long, do they!

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