What happened to the graphics / textures?

[S3B4ST13N]

Actually I find many of your screenshot images inferior to the current stages. For example, the planet with zillion craters, looks totally artificial. Now it's much more "natural".

Going to have to disagree. There's nothing unnatural/artificial about a crater riddled planet. Especially ones without an atmosphere; in fact, IIRC, it's quite normal.
Example, The moon:

 

[maboleth]

^ Yeah but look how was it implemented in the first screenshots.

Looks totally "beta" to me. Same craters copy-pasted throughout the whole planet, not even part of the dents - just pasted on top of it. They look like raindrops.

 

[S3B4ST13N]

Ah, I was looking at this one: https://i.imgur.com/ksmisLJ.jpg
I agree, on that image, it looks very beta.

 

[CmdrKull]

Yeah, converting to .jpg or .png might help It's not SweetFX tweaks, right?

They’re png by default I believe. I don’t use sweetfx or anything like it, just graphicsConfiguration.xml tweaks.

 

[Cosmo]

Hi, back to the game after 2 years hiatus

I just been pointed out at how the graphics where https://imgur.com/a/eu2lB#Wutj6gx

Is there a fix coming any time soon? It's very dull at the moment...

Consoles happened. We need such higher graphics settings on PC and Xbox One X.

 

[Daffan]

Hopefully it won't return to the frame rates that went with them.

never had a problem, even when I had an r9 290 running supersampling back in pbeta

 

[Skizomeuh]

A cmdr tweeted these shots:
https://twitter.com/CoolerKingV/status/915639371738615810?s=09
Sorry, can't embed the pics.

Cobra can make marvels... I can't believe FDEV won't fix this beige syndrome.

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

A cmdr tweeted these shots:
https://twitter.com/CoolerKingV/status/915639371738615810?s=09
Sorry, can't embed the pics.

Cobra can make marvels... I can't believe FDEV won't fix this beige syndrome.

That looks superb. To be honest, I was on the planets the other day and I thought they looked fantastic, apart from the beige issue. Get that fixed and I will be much happier.

 

[CmdrKull]

I mentioned that I would post my settings for the galaxy color and brightness, so here they are:

<GalaxyMap>
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    <High>
      <LocalisationName>$QUALITY_HIGH;</LocalisationName>
      <NebulasCount>30</NebulasCount>
      <NebulasInBackgroundCount>100</NebulasInBackgroundCount>
      <LowResNebulasCount>200</LowResNebulasCount>
      <HighResNebulasCount>200</HighResNebulasCount>
      <LowResNebulaDimensions>64</LowResNebulaDimensions>
      <HighResNebulaDimensions>256</HighResNebulaDimensions>
      <LowResSamplesCount>276</LowResSamplesCount>
      <HighResSamplesCount>552</HighResSamplesCount>
      <MilkyWayInstancesCount>16000</MilkyWayInstancesCount>
      <LocalDustBrightness>-0.12</LocalDustBrightness>
      <MilkywayInstancesBrightness>0.1</MilkywayInstancesBrightness>
      <MilkywayInstancesSize>3.9</MilkywayInstancesSize>
      <MilkyWayInstancesOffscreenRTEnabled>false</MilkyWayInstancesOffscreenRTEnabled>
      <StarInstanceCount>240000</StarInstanceCount>
    </High>
</GalaxyMap>

The important nodes for color are LocalDustBrightness and MilkywayInstancesBrightness

Spoiler

[imgur]W0e3x[/imgur]

 

[Oktusha]

A cmdr tweeted these shots:
https://twitter.com/CoolerKingV/status/915639371738615810?s=09
Sorry, can't embed the pics.

Cobra can make marvels... I can't believe FDEV won't fix this beige syndrome.

Any idea what their settings are to achieve that?

 

[Qohen Leth]

I mentioned that I would post my settings for the galaxy color and brightness, so here they are:

<GalaxyMap>
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.
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    <High>
      <LocalisationName>$QUALITY_HIGH;</LocalisationName>
      <NebulasCount>30</NebulasCount>
      <NebulasInBackgroundCount>100</NebulasInBackgroundCount>
      <LowResNebulasCount>200</LowResNebulasCount>
      <HighResNebulasCount>200</HighResNebulasCount>
      <LowResNebulaDimensions>64</LowResNebulaDimensions>
      <HighResNebulaDimensions>256</HighResNebulaDimensions>
      <LowResSamplesCount>276</LowResSamplesCount>
      <HighResSamplesCount>552</HighResSamplesCount>
      <MilkyWayInstancesCount>16000</MilkyWayInstancesCount>
      <LocalDustBrightness>-0.12</LocalDustBrightness>
      <MilkywayInstancesBrightness>0.1</MilkywayInstancesBrightness>
      <MilkywayInstancesSize>3.9</MilkywayInstancesSize>
      <MilkyWayInstancesOffscreenRTEnabled>false</MilkyWayInstancesOffscreenRTEnabled>
      <StarInstanceCount>240000</StarInstanceCount>
    </High>
</GalaxyMap>

The important nodes for color are LocalDustBrightness and MilkywayInstancesBrightness

Spoiler

[imgur]W0e3x[/imgur]

Hmm, I used to tweak those similarly (2 releases ago) but I don't recall much convincing results. I'll try again.