New Lighting appreciation thread.

well ive seen it all and all i can say to Luthier and Co. YOU THE MAN !!!!!!

seriously im not aware of any better looking sim or game out today. Utterly Fantastic work. from the colour bleeding at dusk, to the blinding flash from the glass materials to how the light now affects the clouds and everything else for that matter. holy shit this is flippin awesome ! thank you.

ok so now that out the way. i must ask if this is the start of the HDR options? (quoted in the manual are HDR options in the graphics settings.)

iam utterly mesmerized by what iam seeing.

what else can we expect ?



please only add constructive critiscism. this is a positive thread !. dont abuse it. show your screenshots of these new effects. And love what you see. i do.
P.S. We need more appreciation threads.

[recoilfx]

Before and after shot? I can't seem to notice the difference.

[Lololopoulos]

any screen shots??? i haven't seen it yet.

[mazex]

Agreed - after all the whining about colors before I'm amazed that there is not more talk about the new color and lighting that is a lot more desaturated than before. No more lime green!

[DB605]

Yep, looks really good now. Especially late evening, say 18:00 or 19:00 lighting is fantastic...

[samich]

If you aren't aware of any better looking games, you haven't played many games

[DB605]

Originally Posted by recoilfx

Before and after shot? I can't seem to notice the difference.

Not the best possible pics but you get the idea:

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Originally Posted by samich

If you aren't aware of any better looking games, you haven't played many games

im a graphic artist, and i have played pratically everything. and im concinced there is no better implementation of current gen shaders, both in terms of stylisation and completeness. practically everything possible is going on in dx10. and well i just appreciate it. so you take your stupid pov that doesnt add any constructive critiscim to anyone but me and leave.

[samich]

Ok, im a graphic artist to, so what?

So in your professional experienced opinion you think COD looks better then metro, crysis 1/2, bulletstorm ?

I dont think cod looks bad at all and i haven't looked into its shader usage but its a dx level behind some of the more recently released games and by 1C's own admission doesn't include half of the graphical niceties that they intend to include.

Its not even a subjective opinion, anyone whos played more recent games will agree, i mean it doesn't even have anti aliasing at the moment..

[recoilfx]

The shots look more or less the same to me, with different time of day. Were they taken at the same time of the day?