landscape of official storm of war trailer

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Ataros

I think if modern lighting system is removed from CloD the colours would look the same as in the video, i.e. darker.

We do not have enough clouds or high-altitude overcast ingame to reproduce normal weather and therefore have colours more natural for rare bright sunny days in mid summer when atmosphere is absolutely transparent for sunlight.

When we have hardware to run the weather system or it is optimised enough the lighting would not be as bright and landscape colours would change naturally.

On sunny days colours become very acid. Just Google it
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--kt3jjW13s...inKurogane.jpg

http://www.wallcoo.net/nature/sz194-...A094_photo.jpg

http://www.wallcoo.net/nature/sz194-...A089_photo.jpg

Open in separate tabs and compare to this or any other CloD screenshot https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-r...5-12_00061.jpg

Thus, I would not dramatize current state of landscape colours based on personal perceptions. Perception depends on what you compare the colours with. Older games just do not have as advanced lighting system and may look darker even without high-alt clouds\overcast which is wrong.

Personally, if i see, everyday, what some people here claims how Britain, grass on a sunny day etc look like (im pretty sure grass on a sunny day anywhere in the northern hemisphere look pretty much the same) , i would have my eyes checked asp.

The grass for ex, some people say it should look like is more how grass looks after 1 straight month of blistering sun and no rain what so ever.

And no, Britain colours isnt specially in any way what so ever compared to say Sweden.

The colours look darker and more toned down only when there is complete overcast.


The layout is another matter.


Colours in Cod.

Pic. 1 at 06.00
Pic. 2 at 12.00
Pic. 3 at 16.00


Sometime i wonder if people forgotten that CoD have Dynamic Lighting and colours change depending on time of day. But hey, maby we should go back to no Dynamic Lighting so the colours "feel" better.

[CrazySchmidt]

You don't have to be a pilot to now what the ground looks like from inside an aeroplane at any altitude, you just simply have to have flown and looked out the window.

I've seen it, CloD is not close.

Originally Posted by Baron

Personally, if i see, everyday, what some people here claims how Britain, grass on a sunny day etc look like (im pretty sure grass on a sunny day anywhere in the northern hemisphere look pretty much the same) , i would have my eyes checked asp.

The grass for ex, some people say it should look like is more how grass looks after 1 straight month of blistering sun and no rain what so ever.

And no, Britain colours isnt specially in any way what so ever compared to say Sweden.

The colours look darker and more toned down only when there is complete overcast.


The layout is another matter.


Colours in Cod.

Pic. 1 at 06.00
Pic. 2 at 12.00
Pic. 3 at 16.00


Sometime i wonder if people forgotten that CoD have Dynamic Lighting and colours change depending on time of day. But hey, maby we should go back to no Dynamic Lighting so the colours "feel" better.

this is the reason it doesnt look as good in your opinions. For me its exactly the same. the issue is artistry ! and solely artistry. when you have no shaders over your work your work is raw. It looks how you designed it. when you add more and more shaders over the art it distorts the art and the artist can not work in the perfect static enviroment anymore. Its a comprimise in order to incoroporate the fact that your image has to look different at different times of day and enviromental situations.

heres the Fact: 90% of the time of day the colours work as they should they are colours you see out over a landscape through direct and non direct lighting. Most of your opinions are incapable of understanding the ART has to look good over a 24 hours period and be affected by cloud cover and lighting angle. IMHO there is a period of time between 1 to 2 hours that most of you fly at that does appear incredibly wrong. thats about 20% of the day to night schedule and funnily enough the time of day your all flying. Out with those times the scenery is absolutely stunning in its presentation.

The Scenery is not going to get better because its as good as it will get. you guys must fix your conceptualisation on the matter.

If i want to get critical i would be criticising a few factors. the scale of the fields. the lack of a wild urban tile representing wild countryside. the scale of the fields affects the colours believe it or not. more smaller scaled fields with a selection of say 5 colours. when your eye sees this it affects the relationships between the colours. in not so many words its these relationships that bring you to the wrong conclusion that the colours are off. wether you believe what i say or not. it is not the colours that are wrong.