Odyssey in game graphics too bright.

[ravenstar68]

In Odyssey the in game graphics seem too bright. It's almost as if the default gamma setting has been cranked all the way to 11 out of 10. Ice planets are washed out both when you view them in the FSS and also when you get close to some planets. Take Cubeo 2 for example when you leave Adelman station.

Horizons

The same scene in Odyssey

If you turn the in game gamma down as far as it goes, you can eliminate some of the effect, but it's still not right.

Edit - to clarify the in game gamma setting was not changed between the two shots - it was set to the middle.

 

[Morbad]

What's 'right' is pretty subjective and they radically adjusted the tone mapping and other aspects of Odyssey's lighting. It's not just a gamma shift and messing with gamma alone will not change the effect in the desired way.

You can try reverting to the Horizons HDR/tone map settings and/or reduce the GlareCompensation value.

 

[ravenstar68]

For me the issue is that if the default glare and tone issues cause such a washed out effect as seen in the second picture, then there's something drastically wrong.

 

[Gungan]

This makes the game unplayable for me. I'm not playing it. It's like they're trying to fake HDR or something.

 

[Scubadog]

It's even worse in VR. This game is unplayable in VR, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[ravenstar68]

What's 'right' is pretty subjective and they radically adjusted the tone mapping and other aspects of Odyssey's lighting. It's not just a gamma shift and messing with gamma alone will not change the effect in the desired way.

You can try reverting to the Horizons HDR/tone map settings and/or reduce the GlareCompensation value

Can you point out how to do this? I'll give it try.

 

[Morbad]

Put the attached GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml (remove the .txt from the end) in your "%LocalAppData%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics" and see if that achieves the desired effect.

 

[ravenstar68]

Put the attached GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml (remove the .txt from the end) in your "%LocalAppData%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics" and see if that achieves the desired effect.

Sadly that doesn't work.

+1 for trying though.

 

[ravenstar68]

I think I might try and take a trip to Sol later and compare Earth and the Moon using Horizons and Odyssey.

I appreciate that the devs may have been trying to improve the lighting, BUT when you look at the effect of the changes, I find it doubtful that this was what they wanted to achieve.

 

[Cirrus]

Not sure if it's been posted elsewhere, but how do you turn down the terrible glare on the ships HUD projectors, in particular the on for the central scanner? It's so bright that I can hardly see anything behind the ship. Why did they change this? It was great as it was. Now it looks like some cheap FX and unplayable.

I was looking forward to playing Odyssey but will stick to Horizon for now.

 

[ravenstar68]

I made it to Sol - I haven't done a pic of the Moon yet but here's Earth
Horizons

Odyssey

Lets compare both with a real life image:

Now tell me which of the two is better.

 

[rennarda]

Somewhere between the two would be best. The planets in ED have always seen too dull to my eyes. It's a tough ask trying to render bright reflections from white clouds against the pure black of space, unless you have HDR. I quite like the Odyssey rendering of bright objects. They should be washed out - you're in space looking at something in unfiltered sunlight.

I'd like to see some kind of adaptive exposure, the same way MS Flight Sim 2020 does it (when you look down at your instruments, the outside scene gets brighter and washed out, then when you look up it fades back into range, but the instruments look darker. Very natural, and a good approximation of what your eyes do in real life).

 

[BDelacroix]

I've seen some planets that appear to be super brightly lit.
Most of the game for me is dark.
The HDR transitions from a dark area to "lit" area are particularly black.

 

[Cosmo]

I made it to Sol - I haven't done a pic of the Moon yet but here's Earth
Horizons

Odyssey

Lets compare both with a real life image:

Now tell me which of the two is better.

Pretty sure this is a bug. Just report it and hope they fix it.

 

[Nadreck]

Yes, I noticed that too. I'm in the LHS 3675 system, two ELW's, looking as above.

Also, Broderick Gateway station orbits one of those, and it has one of those nice "tourist" interiors, with green parkland. But in Odyssey it's looking pale and washed-out.

 

[OriginalBadBoy]

Lol most people are saying the game is too dark!

What is going on .....

 

[Bob McBobblehead]

Odyssey is too dark, maybe I should just play with my monitor off.

 

[Oztig]

I made it to Sol - I haven't done a pic of the Moon yet but here's Earth
Horizons

Odyssey

Lets compare both with a real life image:

Now tell me which of the two is better.

Hmm - tricky one - somewhere between the two I reckon.

Edit: I did some of the moon in Odyssey on the Screenshot thread (Odyssey one). It looks a bit too bright to me -, unfortunately I don't have a Horizons image to compare it with, and can't be bothered to go back to Horizons to compare, so look forward to seeing you images

 

[PontifusRex]

There's this too:

 

[Miller-UK]

At the time of writing this, this thread is sitting right below another titled "Odyssey Still Very Dark". LOL