night darkness

Mikmak · #1 05-23-2011, 11:09 PM

Hi,

With the version 1.01.14588, I would like to know if the night rendering has been modified or not ?
It's seems to be less dark than before the patch...

before the patch 1.01.14588 :

after the patch 1.01.14588:

#2 05-24-2011, 01:05 AM

Yeah I noticed this too, looks really bad. I noticed that there was a full moon out when the bright landscape and cockpit showed up though I dont know if this has anything to do with it. No matter, even with a full moon up it is still far too bright at night now.

Jatta Raso · #3 05-24-2011, 01:20 AM

s**t i only flew nighttime couple days ago and saw like the second SC, never even knew that it was like the first (as it's more supposed to be i think)

1C add it to the "put it back as it was" please (as you did when the water splashes had disappeared)

louisv · #4 05-24-2011, 02:26 AM

When your eyes are accustomed to low light, a full moon can be very bright, and it looks like a full moon is lighting the cockpit...I'm not saying it can't be made better, but to me it looks like a full moon...

#5 05-24-2011, 04:20 AM

The first one looks like a pilot who just previously looked into a flashlight during a moonless night. The second one looks like a pilot who's eyes have adjusted to the darkness during a night when the moon is visible. Please post external views to show the outside of the plane and the state of the moon and sky, or these screen-caps have little weight as to whether or not it's correctly rendering the appropriate lighting.

louisv · #6 05-24-2011, 04:39 AM

+1

DK-nme · #7 05-24-2011, 05:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mikmak

Hi,

With the version 1.01.14588, I would like to know if the night rendering has been modified or not ?
It's seems to be less dark than before the patch...

before the patch 1.01.14588 :

after the patch 1.01.14588:

First picture is sooo awesome (very atmosphaeric and the night immersion is very good - like a soft sommernight).
Second picture - well, it's horrible, artificial and overall bad looking (Check out the terrain gfx - it's awful in that light). But hopefully Luthier and 1c will get this sorted out and that quickly.
If not, it will be a very big leap backwards (gfx regression wise)...

Ploughman · #8 05-24-2011, 06:47 PM

Looking at some of those shots of the moonlit landscape, and the aircraft skins, I can see different colours. As the reflected light from the moon is monochromatic there should not be any discernable variety of colour. I guess they haven't got moon light textures for the landscape so it's understandable but perhaps something to be addressed in future.

Vorondil · #9 05-25-2011, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Ploughman

As the reflected light from the moon is monochromatic there should not be any discernable variety of colour.

Moonlight is typically white, and as such contains the full visible colour spectrum, similar to the sun. This is evident from such phenomena as Moonbows. The faintness of the light however makes color perception difficult. When given time to adjust, the human eye can usually detect stronger longer-wavelength colours, such as red or yellow. To quote Wikipedia.

"It is difficult for the human eye to discern colors in a moonbow because the light is usually too faint to excite the cone color receptors in human eyes. As a result, they often appear to be white. However, the colors in a moonbow do appear in long exposure photographs."

Redroach · #10 05-25-2011, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Ploughman

Looking at some of those shots of the moonlit landscape, and the aircraft skins, I can see different colours. As the reflected light from the moon is monochromatic there should not be any discernable variety of colour. I guess they haven't got moon light textures for the landscape so it's understandable but perhaps something to be addressed in future.

LOL! Awesome, made my evening!

Also, apart from moonlight , being lit up by flak searchlights should look quite similar; just in case someone sniffles a bug on a moonless night.