I feel really sorry for your poor AspX being all depressed. All the color has gone.
Here, see what they did to the poor Acceleration White. My gold. She's DED!
Oddy vs. Not Oddy
Odyssey space has "too much contrast" - breaking down the rendering of a frame
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Here, see what they did to the poor Acceleration White. My gold. She's DED!
Oddy vs. Not Oddy
ewww poor thing!!I feel really sorry for your poor AspX being all depressed. All the color has gone.
Here, see what they did to the poor Acceleration White. My gold. She's DED!
Oddy vs. Not Oddy
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I know, it's REAL BAD. It's super obvious SOMETHING is wrong with the lighting for ships. The gold isn't GOLD anymore. It's just an ugly yellow now. It's so unsatisfying. Where's the gold leaf? How am I supposed to feel like I'm flying a stunt ship when it looks like someone covered it in matte paint that doesn't SHINE.
I don't mind the darker space, it's everything else that makes me kinda sad, especially nebula and the milky way effect.
There are some incredibly talented people that play this game.. It is an immense pool of knowledge so I'd not be amazed if they didn't help out quicker than the average!
I suspect this isn't just an Odyssey thing. The ugly banding has been around for a very long time.
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To the "Space should be dark!" people. Let's consult an expert on what space should look like FROM SPACE, NOT FILTERED THROUGH OUR THICK ATMOSPHERE FILLED WITH LIGHT POLLUTION
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaUCMzgidvs
Could you even imagine? Multiple atmospherics worlds with tweaked flight mechanics, comets would be in, two star systems with 2 light points, animated and interactive gas giants, an insame amount of mission story lines, Powerplay that evolved and changed, improved piracy and punishment, Thargoid war zones not locked off in USS's.
Then Fdev sell Legs DLC and in 6 months we'd have EVA, ship internals and exploring ghost ships out on the rim...
Someone should show this to David Braben, like STAT! (tho' I like dark space, just not black internals and washed out planets).
FDev - a developer that has a community able to reverse-engineer their product and show errors but ignores their input in alpha stages and does not do beta stages because why would you.
And charges 10$ for Alpha participation.
But, you are only able to do that if you have fanboys that say things like:
There is so much stupid in that sentence above one has to wonder if that's not a paid clacker.
And charges 10$ for Alpha participation.
But, you are only able to do that if you have fanboys that say things like:
There is so much stupid in that sentence above one has to wonder if that's not a paid clacker.
Not sure if this is related (most of OP's post went whizzing over my head) but I noticed when sneaking around a dark base that in the open, I was able to see enough of the outlines of things by the ambient light (stars?), but when I went under any overhead building (walkway, exterior corridor or awning) everything went pitch black. I couldn't even see the objects in the open that I was able to distinguish easily before. This really breaks the immersion for me.
I guess it's supposed to be adaptation of human to different lighting conditions.
It's called "dynamic exposure adjustment" and this has been around for some time. If you want a nice, interactive explanation of what it does and how it works, I suggest you download and play through the "Half-Life 2 – Lost Coast" chapter with developer commentaries enabled. This level was cut from the original Half-Life 2 and was later used by Valve as a testbed for their HDR integration into the Source Engine, and the developer commentary is quite educational. And there's one specific segment (shortly before you arrive at the plaza), where it goes into some length the why and how of HDR tonemapping.
If so - that does not work at all.
In deep deep space you should see everything brighter, because adaptation makes eyes more sensitive to any light.
But you are NOT in the "dark space" you are on a surface of planet, moving next to artificial light sources that impact your eyes sensitivity.
All you have to do is go the FSS scanner and scan an atmospheric Ice planet and be blinded by the glare. I can play for about half an hour before I start getting a headache.
That's does not matter if you are not in direct light.
Technically all space that is not in direct light (or scattered light from atmosphere from any source) of star is dark space.
If there is no atmosphere there is no light scattering in gas, so it does not impact anything.
And if in space is dust, dust absorbs light. (but it is so minimal that you can't really observe in microscale. Dust can be seen in macro scale.
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