New Landscape Colors vs Old

[philip.ed]

+1 to Orville. These colours are nothing like England. Clearly there a ton of completely uneducated, blind individuals taking part in this poll. Regardless of aesthetic clarity, the colours are so far off it's laughable. England isn't like a multi-coloured patchwork quilt. Grass colours may vary lightly, but you won't look over your fence and see vivid, dark green grass in your neighbours lawn when yours is yellow and sun-bleached. In England, field patterns are fairly ordered and even. It's rare to see field layouts looking like some colour-blind God chucked a load of sprinklies over the terrain.

[Trooper117]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

+1 to Orville. These colours are nothing like England. Clearly there a ton of completely uneducated, blind individuals taking part in this poll. Regardless of aesthetic clarity, the colours are so far off it's laughable. England isn't like a multi-coloured patchwork quilt. Grass colours may vary lightly, but you won't look over your fence and see vivid, dark green grass in your neighbours lawn when yours is yellow and sun-bleached. In England, field patterns are fairly ordered and even. It's rare to see field layouts looking like some colour-blind God chucked a load of sprinklies over the terrain.

You can't tell em ed.. some of em don't even live here in the UK, most have never seen the south of England from several thousand feet or lower..

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

+1 to Orville. These colours are nothing like England. Clearly there a ton of completely uneducated, blind individuals taking part in this poll. Regardless of aesthetic clarity, the colours are so far off it's laughable. England isn't like a multi-coloured patchwork quilt. Grass colours may vary lightly, but you won't look over your fence and see vivid, dark green grass in your neighbours lawn when yours is yellow and sun-bleached. In England, field patterns are fairly ordered and even. It's rare to see field layouts looking like some colour-blind God chucked a load of sprinklies over the terrain.

I agree with the colours being too pastel thought not as bad as they were pre beta, but seriously the highlighted part LMAO im not too sure if your from the UK now.... the fields over hear are NOT orderly or even and the different colours could be attributed to the different kind of stuff they were growing then.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll...h&z=14&vpsrc=6

Some places even most just random!

[Bpdslayer]

So funny, we see so many people complaining about the new landscape colours, but the polls show that most of us like the new colours. Looks like the dissatisfied amongst us are the more vocal ones.

I for one prefer the colours in the new beta, they dont look so bright like pastel colours compared to before.

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

+1 to Orville. These colours are nothing like England. Clearly there a ton of completely uneducated, blind individuals taking part in this poll. Regardless of aesthetic clarity, the colours are so far off it's laughable. England isn't like a multi-coloured patchwork quilt. Grass colours may vary lightly, but you won't look over your fence and see vivid, dark green grass in your neighbours lawn when yours is yellow and sun-bleached. In England, field patterns are fairly ordered and even. It's rare to see field layouts looking like some colour-blind God chucked a load of sprinklies over the terrain.

Some of what you say is laughable.

I've just spent the last 3 months cultivating 3000 acres in south-east Kent, mainly driving this,





I'm now contact Avadexing all over south-east Kent, currently down on New Romney Marsh and must of driven over 6000 acres of fields so far this year in Kent, and can assure you the fields are definitely not fairly ordered and even.

Oh, and just for kicks this is from about 2 weeks ago,

over Caple Le fern,





Some picks from last week,







In my most humble opinion, i feel i'm probably more qualified than most to comment on the fields in south-east Kent.

Now as to the colours, well, i agree they're wrong, but they've always been wrong.

imo however they are the least wrong they've been so far.

However, it is impossible to create a map that represents how SE England looked during the BoB, simply because thats when the landscape is changing the most, the start of the battle the crops are beginning to ripen, and by the end, they've been harvested, and the fields re cultivated, so what 'time' do you pick?

[bw_wolverine]

Great pics and an informative post Fruitbat.

Agreed that they're still "wrong" but I can LIVE with it. To be perfectly honest, I could have lived with ANY version we've had so far. All of these colour/contrast debates are very nice to have and an interesting scholarly debate, but considering the kinds of terrain we've had in games we call classics and remember with reverence, the terrain we've had at all patch levels has been just fine for me.

Put it this way. Would you rather they continuously tweak the colours until they're just the way you like them, or would you rather that they search for and find a way to make the trees have collision detection. Or fix the comms. Or make the AI better. Or ANYTHING.

It's obvious the colours are never going to be perfect for everyone. Especially evident by this poll. I think enough time has been spent on the colours, though. Time for us all to say "okay, thanks for adjusting it, now move on to the next thing and return to this later if and when there's time to make further tweaks."

EDIT: Actually, now that I think more on it, we might have a lot of people voting that they like the new version simply because they want the devs to move on.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

Great pics and an informative post Fruitbat.

Agreed that they're still "wrong" but I can LIVE with it. To be perfectly honest, I could have lived with ANY version we've had so far. All of these colour/contrast debates are very nice to have and an interesting scholarly debate, but considering the kinds of terrain we've had in games we call classics and remember with reverence, the terrain we've had at all patch levels has been just fine for me.

Put it this way. Would you rather they continuously tweak the colours until they're just the way you like them, or would you rather that they search for and find a way to make the trees have collision detection. Or fix the comms. Or make the AI better. Or ANYTHING.

It's obvious the colours are never going to be perfect for everyone. Especially evident by this poll. I think enough time has been spent on the colours, though. Time for us all to say "okay, thanks for adjusting it, now move on to the next thing and return to this later if and when there's time to make further tweaks."

EDIT: Actually, now that I think more on it, we might have a lot of people voting that they like the new version simply because they want the devs to move on.

Agree with everything you just said , but they are a little too bright.. I am fed up with neon nuclear green statements being shoved down my throat!!!

[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Agree with everything you just said , but they are a little too bright.. I am fed up with neon nuclear green statements being shoved down my throat!!!

*nods*

I would keep in mind that almost every picture I've seen that shows the "real" colours (photos, etc) is typically on an overcast day. fruitbats pictures seem to mostly be on clear days, but some of the greens in those are pretty "green" too.

If your PC can do it, try creating a mission with the weather features turned on and take a few screen shots. You may be surprised at how right the colours look if you actually have cloud cover. It's possible that the devs are tweaking the colours with that in mind. I'm sure it's very tricky to manage the colours when so many things can have an impact on them (shade, sun, glare, glass tint, haze, etc).

Wouldn't we hate to have to do all of this over again once the weather features are implimented and everyone complains that the ground is too dark when the sky is cloudy?

[fruitbat]

yep although the greens are subduing now, a month or so ago, much more 'green' on a clear day, this is from last years harvest in early aug i think, and when the sun is shining its quite vibrant.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

*nods*

I would keep in mind that almost every picture I've seen that shows the "real" colours (photos, etc) is typically on an overcast day. fruitbats pictures seem to mostly be on clear days, but some of the greens in those are pretty "green" too.

If your PC can do it, try creating a mission with the weather features turned on and take a few screen shots. You may be surprised at how right the colours look if you actually have cloud cover. It's possible that the devs are tweaking the colours with that in mind. I'm sure it's very tricky to manage the colours when so many things can have an impact on them (shade, sun, glare, glass tint, haze, etc).

Wouldn't we hate to have to do all of this over again once the weather features are implimented and everyone complains that the ground is too dark when the sky is cloudy?

LMAO, thats exactly what I thought with Beta patch 1.. clearly great minds think alike