New cockpit colors vs old
 

Which cockpit colors do you prefer?

The new cockpit i like

the new revi gunsight is awfull

The new colors overall on everything is better. Things are more Clearer.. The planes stick out better now on the background terrain/water as do the gauges in the cockpit. It is a noticable change and at first I was like 'what the' but after a minutes it just all made sense.

Everything seems to be really good in the patch except that one issue of course with the exploding planes that hit the ground bug crashing your game. (lol)

the new colours is better
but the colours inside the cockpits has a very very very high contrast:evil:
even the pilot that could you see in the glass of gauges in the hurri
its not visible anymore

I have no preference, I am an amateur painter and photograph and I have seen in one instant colors change due to the passing of a cloud in the skies that I shall never criticize a nature painting the old new or very new color of cod are wonderful and react very well to the light. I say good job.:grin:

New one.. +1

something between old and new colors would be just right...its ok now but maybe a bit too dark

I´m still not with the new patch... Can anyone put some photos to compare?

i don't like the new cockpit colors
but it seems the this high contrast it has something to do with the lightning and the hour you are flying
for example...
the cockpit at 9.00 o clock is aweful [to much contrast]
but at 17.00 in the evening is excellent

At first glance I thought the cockpits were hideous. But I like the way the landscape is clear up close and hazy at a distance. The cockpits are really ugly at midday and the contrast is way too high.
The cockpits were great before the fist beta patch! I wish they wouldn't fix stuff that wasn't broken...

People that are voting for new cockpit colors should try the germans at midday. That lighting is the way how to destroy the most beautiful cockpit models in any simulation till now. There are planes where you even can´t see the gauges borders, all pitch black!

i do not like the new Objects and Cockpit colors in the Beta 2, it have to many contrast, the landscape is ok.

agreed
at last someone that understands

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Same here.

Landscape is better now but i prefer the previous cockpit (109).

yap the detail in previous beta inside the 109's was excellent

there are some screenshot somewhere displaying the cockpits colors for official patch, beta1 and last beta2.

official's patch colors were the best of them three.

here you have:

Original:
http://test.ailantd.com/shots/il2test/B0.jpg

Beta1:
http://test.ailantd.com/shots/il2test/B1.jpg

Beta2:
http://test.ailantd.com/shots/il2test/B2.jpg

i like the beta1
more detail
but only for the cockpits

Not sure if anyone posted about this or not, but if you're finding the contrast on the dash too high (at least in the spitfire) turn up the instrumentation lighting. There are two little dials behind the control column in the Spit that will raise the lights and are analog. I turn em up to 60% or so and the dash looks just fine if the lighting makes it hard to see.

Not sure if there's an equivalent option in the 109 or 110.

There is in 109 too, but that is not a solution, in fact its a "problem". I don´t think in day light turning on that bulb light were seen at all in reality. Try to turn on your inside car light at midday and you will see.

What you see as a "problem" I see as a way for people who like the darker contrast to co-exist with the people who like the lighter contrast while playing the same game.

Hell, if the option was simply moved into the config options as a slider for 'dash contrast' people would probably be quite happy! But since the way to control it is supposedly part of the plane itself, people are going to complain? I'd rather the devs move on than spend more time on this if there is already a valid way to select the contrast you like. Which, it seems to me, there is.

Some people perceive reality more visualy. I didn't care much for the sounds, as sound for me is just feedback, if the machineguns are making noise, they are firing, ok for me. But I understand others hope to hear a lot better sound, ok, it's not important to me, but I understand them and do agree that the new sounds are much better.
Now some of us expect a bit more of quality to the lights.
Those who think the new cockpit is looking good, are caring just about readability of the gauges. I see this new contrast, as when amateur people adjust contrast in pictures to use in their social websites.
The red and green lights feel totally unnatural. As does the cockpit light. Optics seem too incoherent to many of us.
Is this problem less important then comms and AI? For sure!
But the patch's read me said they were changing the colours, among other topics, so we have to discuss these things.
When they say "ok, we changed comms and AI", then we discuss about that.

+1

New cockpit colors are too vibrant. The duller, flat look was more like the cockpits I have seen in real life. Is this hard coded in or can it be modded back to the original?

To me the new colors are more console game where before they were more sim.

What's the problem with turning on my inside car light on midday? I could do that any time...
Voted "New colors" without further thinking, just as promised. There's no way I'll let you guys ruin the bug fixing priorities any more.
If you got problems with seeing instrumentation, buy some stronger contact lenses so you will be able to see out to your cola-bottle-bottom glasses, please!

See? It seems you don't visualize what you read.

See? "Differing opinions must be wrong!!!111"

this screens is old
now whats wrong with this light and they have to change the whole contrast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV-k7...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptB4o...eature=related

now look closer to the RPM gauge glass in that Hurri
now thats a detail i would like to see
and this cannot happen with this crap contrast
also the smoke in this video it doesn't exist anymore in our game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTMjY...eature=related

+1 !!

I really like the new colors and especially the fact that the general views are somethink like "de-hazed". A good step in the right direction. :grin:

Btw, on this vid...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_G-a...layer_embedded

I really really like the color of the water, no more "black sea" :-P

new colours cocpit is not natural.i don't like it

The 109's cockpit has an excessive contrast, as noted by many here.

German bombers too.

There is no way in the world cockpit lights would cause that much colour fall out during the middle of the day.

Sorry but I prefer the pre-beta colours, both internal and external.

Actually I like the new crisp presentation. It however got now a somewhat comic strip like appearance to me. It just misses the black contour line :)

Perhaps something in between last patch and this patch would be great.

Does anybody has the reflections in the dials? I seem to miss them somehow now ...

yes.

and fly the he111 at 20.00 o clock, klick to the gunner, i sure you hate the new colors!

I thinked I liked the original cockpits the best. For every patch the "feeling" in the cockpit has become worse and worse. At first it was jaw dropping, now it looks like crap. :(

pseudo- 'knowledge' fact no. 245321
*yawn*

The world was alway 'in color', even before 1945! B/W guncam footage won't change that!

Agree, beta 2 is the worst tried it today and to me it looks like i lost reflection on the gauges???

dont know , beta 1 is quite OK

I forgot about the reflections in the glass canopy in the original.
Looking at this progression sums it up for me :(