night darkness

[DK-nme]

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]

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]

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]

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.

IMO that blue needs toned down,. theres a nice glow element but the colour is just too blue, needs to be more grey. over the sea is really nice as the cloud shadow cuts out the specular but over land there is no shadow. and the ground is still to bright during night and day,

[RedToo]

I agree about the blue - far too blue. On a moonlit night the white cliffs of Dover are now the blue cliffs of Dover. Horrible, unnatural, wrong.

RedToo.