it looks dead with that styling phillip, it looks stylised, just like wop. people want the colourfull summers day pleasant green (&yellow) lands. not the browns the saturation changes make.

light isnt about whats hitting the object its more about what light the object is emitting in our game environment of course. !

lets take a rich yellow corn field. whilst viewed at ground level from a distance of say 10 metres its this colour, and bare in mind you also view everything between the corn field elements, that maybe the ground, the atmoshphere , its shadow against another element ! But...... when viewed from say 2000 metres its a different story, the mass of area of the cornfield has a further influence on the colour, brightness and contrast, in its mass it reflects more light back at the lens.

along side that rich colurfull yellow we pick 1 shade of green in abundance. at ground level we see much similar to the yellow from certain persepctive. but at height and in abundance or mass of green colour, that dark green colour does not get brighter because of various reasons. shadowing is enhanced thats an absence of light ! so its not quite as reflective of light in general thus it retains its dark quality. but with both colour examples you can throw all this theory out the window depending on the angles of light. so its a very dynamic arena, one we cant simulate in this game.

a tree or forrest has the same qualities as above but in scale everything is much bigger including the shadow generation qualites. its much darker.

each colour operates independantly in reality. in our beloved flightsim things are not and never will be so dynamic. so were left playing with this incredible balancing act thats pretty hard to manipulate with the tools we have. and basic shader use thats set with such an awkward colour base at various times of day.

any VU fans out there ?

White light, Aww white light it lighten up my eyes
White light, don't you know it fills me up with suprise
White light, Aww white heat tickle me down to my toes
White light, Aww white light I tell you now goodness knows, now work it