The Grass and Vegetation colours are too light: Yes or No

[leggit]

totally and utterly subjective discussion. colour particually within a light and landscape context is constantly changing....there are NO correct range of colours....given some of the photographic evidence being used to illustrate different points of view....a number of people need to go and get their eyes tested.

[RocketDog]

Originally Posted by leggit

totally and utterly subjective discussion. colour particually within a light and landscape context is constantly changing....there are NO correct range of colours....given some of the photographic evidence being used to illustrate different points of view....a number of people need to go and get their eyes tested.

I think it is not unreasonable to expect the game to attempt to reproduce what one sees with the naked eye when flying over the South of England. Arguments that if it doesn't, it's our fault, rather than that of the game are a bit contrived.

[ChrisDNT]

The two screenshots of SigurRos are cruel !

[ChrisDNT]

"there are NO correct range of colours"

Simple minds do not understand that if a boundary may be indistinct, it nevertheless exists.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by Gamekeeper

11 pages and nobody has posted real life and COD side by side:

Excellent post if I may say so, and worth repeating.

[Katana1000S]

It does seem a bit too light/pastel shaded, but you cant argue with the picture comparison above I guess.

I've yet to see some of our dark dank miserable UK weather in the sim yet though, just enough to keep the aircraft flying and not grounded

[RocketDog]

The majority of the field colours aren't bad, although I have never seen the "acid green" colour that CloD uses for a minority of fields. The main thing CloD gets wrong is the colour of the trees. If the game is meant to take place in the late summer months of the BoB, then the trees should look darker than the surrounding fields. You can see in the above screenshots that WoP gets it right, but CloD makes the trees too pale and bright. The effect is quite clear in these images of Wiltshire in summer taken from about 2,000' - 5,000'.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by Katana1000S

It does seem a bit too light/pastel shaded, but you cant argue with the picture comparison above I guess.

Maybe this shows the real reason for the colour pallette.

See Wellington Bomber thread for how Biltongbru modified it to his liking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjZ8kwQr1so

[Friendly_flyer]

The Wellingtons look "good on film" (actually very good), but the South English countryside in august, looks a lot more lush. The film looks more apprpriate for a hotter and drier (Spanish?) climate.

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by sigur_ros

Besides the desaturation, Wings of Prey gets very close to real.

You can't be serious. The WoP image looks like crap. Everything is puke green.