Well then they lie because they've said on multiple streams that they do so....
Odyssey space has "too much contrast" - breaking down the rendering of a frame
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That must explain why nothing we ever suggest on the forums and issue tracker ever gets dealt with.
On a related tangent, every analysis I've ever read from any third party looking at how this game does rendering has commented on various seemingly bizarre/inefficient UI issues.
I have a feeling the FDev is still struggling with the loss of official Scaleform support, which they mentioned once in passing years ago, right around the time various pieces of the UI started to stagnate and fall apart. Just speculation though.
I have a feeling the FDev is still struggling with the loss of official Scaleform support, which they mentioned once in passing years ago, right around the time various pieces of the UI started to stagnate and fall apart. Just speculation though.
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Yeah I see, thanks very much for the explanation. I always knew there were many types but didn't realise their importance in setting the colour space.
It's a very interesting topic, if I had my time over I'd would have loved to go into this field more deeply
Yamiks made one on similar subject, so at least word is getting out to more people.
This just isn't true. Here's one example. They might not often reply but just looking at profiles will show you many of the well known devs do read it. Maybe others read without being logged in, who knows.
Again, just not true.
So I learned a lot from your post and found the shader you mentioned here
Plus four other shaders that provide general rendering effects to the whole scene.
I did a rebalance and found a result that's not too dissimilar to the original Horizons lighting. It's not perfect and requires fine tuning of individual elements on the HUD, but I'm happy with the image for just a small amount of work
It's probably easier to see the changes if you overlay the images on top of each other (Note, you probably won't be able to see the differences on mobile devices)
ED Odyssey: Default
ED Odyssey: Enhanced
ED Horizons: Default
As you can see I didn't add back the low contrast / gamma filter from Horizons as I prefer it turned off (and would take me a while to find). But it can always be added as an option
Anyways, just a quick demo to show improvements can be made
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Yeah, you can try to make the in game experience less "noir", but it doesn't help with the excessive blackness part.
Nulls are post-processing resistant
You can add back the Horizons skybox as well .. fills in those gaps of black space
Or do you mean another element?
ED: Odyssey Enhanced, with Horizons Skybox
Sky is not bothering me, blackness in the sky feels "normal".
It's excessive blackness in shadowy areas in your surrounding that seems to be off.
It's like a reality where photons don't "bounce back" from any non-mirrored surface, making any surface not exposed to DIRECT light source pure black.
If feels wrong, light is more "leaky" then that.
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I'll have a look at that tonight, it might be possible to adjust the floor levels of the shadows. But if you're flying around and notice an example then please post so I can see what you mean.
But all that aside, even modding is just a temporary fix. I'm hoping FDev see the OP's post and can make some adjustments to the lighting so these workarounds aren't necessary
Is it too early to tell you how much I love you dude, because we know, if it's anything like the orange UI, Fdev aren't going to rework it if it's too much hassle (no offense to the hard working devs but this would be a management decision).
