New lighting system, before and after comparison

[DjVortex]

When the new lighting system was announced, I got out there to take some pictures for a before and after comparison. Here are some of them:

 

[DjVortex]

 

[Garix]

Looks far, far better. Excellent

 

[lridikron]

Looks far, far better. Excellent

No, definitely not. Still far too white.

 

[Garix]

No, definitely not. Still far too white.

In your opinion. I'll stand by comment.

 

[-Crasher-]

The lighting itself looks great, but what I don't get is why did they make the galaxy background blue? I get that they based it off of real world images but it doesn't even look like that irl.

 

[thistle]

The lighting itself looks great, but what I don't get is why did they make the galaxy background blue? I get that they based it off of real world images but it doesn't even look like that irl.

I think it's far more realistic than the muddy brown previously.

 

[DjVortex]

The lighting itself looks great, but what I don't get is why did they make the galaxy background blue? I get that they based it off of real world images but it doesn't even look like that irl.

I replied to this question in the other thread. It looks quite blue from space.

 

[Lyamecron]

The changes are great for blue stars and brown dwarfs, all the other star classes were sadly left out of this lighting upgrade...

 

[DjVortex]

The changes are great for blue stars and brown dwarfs, all the other star classes were sadly left out of this lighting upgrade...

Yeah, I noticed that for yellow/orange stars the change in lighting is significantly subtler, if not identical.

 

[Stealthie]

Blue is the new brown.

 

[Valorin]

Nooooo... They restored the horrible background tinting to its full horror it seems... Damn!
The Skybox is tinted by the light of the main star of a system (Milky Way, nebulars, even starts... everything). I was under the impression, it's gotten at least better, and was hoping, this update would fix it. But it seems it didn't.
So far I was really looking forward to the lighting changes and the more realistic galaxy. Now I fear I'm not anymore. We'll see how things look on my screen later.

 

[Cosmo]

Can you make a YouTube video of the lighting changes?

Blue is the new brown.

The removal of the muddy colors from the galactic plane makes it much better.

 

[SixthVG]

Adjusted galactic background colouring. for better visuals

• Using real world reference images we have rebalanced the Galactic background lighting.
  
  
  Literally in the patch notes, real world images were used, like cmon.​

 

[CMDR Lefty Jackson]

Hmm, it appears that just a couple color values were changed, from orange/brown to more blue. I can't call that a "Lighting change".

 

[DjVortex]

Nooooo... They restored the horrible background tinting to its full horror it seems... Damn!
The Skybox is tinted by the light of the main star of a system (Milky Way, nebulars, even starts... everything). I was under the impression, it's gotten at least better, and was hoping, this update would fix it. But it seems it didn't.
So far I was really looking forward to the lighting changes and the more realistic galaxy. Now I fear I'm not anymore. We'll see how things look on my screen later.

What? I have never noticed the system's star having any kind of effect on the skybox.

The Milky Way looks blue now because they changed it. It was announced months ago and it's in the patch notes.

 

[TRIGLAVIAN EXPLORER]

who need this lighting if we can't log in xD

 

[DjVortex]

And for reference, this is a photo taken from the ISS (source: NASA's own website):

 

[Tifu]

I'll be visiting some nearby brown dwarf systems soon to see what it looks like from a landable planet's surface. Maybe I'll find a good candidate for my third colony

 

[MPL3D]

For the human eye everything would be mostly black and white, all these colors, after and before, are just unrealistic