"New & Improved" Chrome Ship Skins

JetsonRING

JetsonRING
Received an email from FDev today announcing new & improved "Chromed" ship skins. Am I the only one who thinks the improved "Chromed" ship skins are even flatter and less shiny than the old "Chrome" ship skins?

When the Chrome skins first came out, most people seemed to agree they looked nothing like chromium plating, more like silver anodizing. I was hoping the new chromed skin would be shinier, more reflective but the "new & improved" ship skin seems to me at least to simply be even flatter, though more consistently flat across the entire ship. I do not see this as an improvement.

So far I have only looked at them inside the hangar. Maybe (not holding my breath) they will look shinier outside the station. :rolleyes:

PS: It also seems like the chrome ship skins were not improved for all ships. My Vulture the Kenuichio Harada, the only ship that I keep consistently in chrome livery does not seem to have the new skin available. [where is it]
 
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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Yep, received that email as well.
I'm looking forwards to checking them out when I'm back from work. :)

I do hope they look more... chromey in reality, yes. :D
 

Happy Shrapnel

Happy Shrapnel
wow......a 2.0 paintjob..... Wonder if the Thargoids got a similar email about their "Basilisk" paintjob? Really Frontier. If you told us 8 weeks ago that "the Return" would consist of 1 new alien ship with two paintjobs that could only be successfully interacted with in a wing I would have moved off ED and enjoyed my spare time a little better.

(turns and resumes watching the paint on my wall dry)
 
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The Lawful

The Lawful
Only could have a brief look at them in the relative darkness of the hangar, but to me, they look smoother and ultimately, better (Eagle & Vette, can't tell for others). The old Chrome paintjobs had the tendency to vary between anything from black and ultra-white, depending on the surrounding light. Now we got a choice at least ;)

O7,
[noob]
 

Codger

Codger
I have the free Eagle one, from some CG I did a long time ago. I've never even applied it to a ship. I don't even have an Eagle.

But if I did, I guess it would look better now.

:)

EDIT:

I went and bought an Eagle just to look at it. I have 2 skins, Chrome and Chromed. Chrome looks better to me.

So I guess I like the old one better.

But neither is all that 'chromey' if you ask me. More like brushed steel.
 
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CMDR RAY-ZOR'SHARP

CMDR RAY-ZOR'SHARP
Strange, less reflective, more like brushed Aluminium, neither are remotly Chrome like.

Many of the Decals are highly reflective, almost mirror like, so it can be done on a small scale, maybe doing a whole ship like that would kill the GPU.
 
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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
ebbrell said:
Are these on the store.. I cannot find them
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If I understood it correctly, then if you had previous chrome paintjobs, the updated one will appear automatically as a new paintjob, next to the old one, but as far as the shop goes the new one simply replaced the old one (so you can't get the old one any more)
 

ebbrell

ebbrell
Oh right, I will have a look when I dock. I guess you can buy from there

Or maybe I cannot get them... fingers, toes, legs, arm and ears crossed I can

I will let you know if possible, so everyone knows etc.
 
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AndyJ

AndyJ
HammerHead said:
Many of the Decals are highly reflective, almost mirror like, so it can be done on a small scale, maybe doing a whole ship like that would kill the GPU.
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The problem is that the decals aren't meant to be reflective -other than the golden Founder decal which is now generally not golden.
Something got broken way back in 2.3. It was reported in beta but the issue still hasn't been fixed. [blah]
e.g. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...m-to-have-picked-up-a-strange-metallic-effect
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...t-still-not-reflecting-what-seen-in-the-store
etc.
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
Hopefully this will be the precursor to a Chrome paintjob for the Orca.
And now I have to remember where I parked my chrome Eagle to see what the new chromed looks like as well...
 

CapuchinSeven

CapuchinSeven
Don't tend to run chrome effects very high as it doesn't work that well in VR even with a 1080, but at least they've taken a look at them and improved.
 

CMDR RAY-ZOR'SHARP

CMDR RAY-ZOR'SHARP
AndyJ said:
The problem is that the decals aren't meant to be reflective -other than the golden Founder decal which is now generally not golden.
Something got broken way back in 2.3. It was reported in beta but the issue still hasn't been fixed. [blah]
e.g. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...m-to-have-picked-up-a-strange-metallic-effect
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...t-still-not-reflecting-what-seen-in-the-store
etc.
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OK, thanks for that, what a pity that something broken shows what could be done.
 
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