Colors

[flyingblind]

As Anders And says the colours are better early and late but then that is the way it is in real life. Although it probably could look a bit better mid day in game, photographers try to avoid working at this time because colours tend to look flat and washed out especially with any degree of haze.


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[Ataros]

It is possible to change colors as described here http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...change+colours

[Anders_And]

Originally Posted by Ataros

It is possible to change colors as described here http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...change+colours

Now THAT looks good!

[Jaws2002]

Beside the fact that your new look has way to strong red hue, that doesn't fix anything. That's just a filter thrown over everything. Just like puting on your sun glasses and saying the color of the world changed.

[philip.ed]

Jaws, I honestly think that CloD has a green filter to it though. I use the FXAA mod with the colour 'tweaks', and increasing the red a bit has made a world of difference. It looks great at sunrise and sunsets (the colours are incredible) and even during the day it brings out the browns a bit more. The look is more autumnal, but then again the English terrain has look like that since the colours were changed.

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Jaws, I honestly think that CloD has a green filter to it though. I use the FXAA mod with the colour 'tweaks', and increasing the red a bit has made a world of difference. It looks great at sunrise and sunsets (the colours are incredible) and even during the day it brings out the browns a bit more. The look is more autumnal, but then again the English terrain has look like that since the colours were changed.

From what I see on this droid 3, your second screenshot has way too much Magenta/Red.

What I'm trying to say is that we are talking about a speciffic colors of a certain region, during a certain season, while affected by certain speciffic weather effects.
You shouldn't try to fix this speciffic look with changes to the general lighting engine.

You change ground textures to that map to match the season, you add weather effects like clouds, haze mist, and your lighting engineshould give you the exact look you need, without affecting how your other maps look.
This is where the developpers messed up after clod was released. The original lighting engine was almost perfect. It was tuned by Oleg, who is a proffessional photographer and it showed. No other game had the general lighting rules so refined.
The changes that came after tried to fix local speciffic looks with changes to the general lighting engine and they messed up everything.
That tropical map we have shouldn't look like the southern England during a crappy day. Yet it does.
The problem now is that they will make the new maps for BOM, with the lighting set up for southern England and will mess up the colors even more.
The best solution would be to go back to the original lighting, and adjust local textures and weather to match the region.

[Ailantd]

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

From what I see on this droid 3, your second screenshot has way too much Magenta/Red.

What I'm trying to say is that we are talking about a speciffic colors of a certain region, during a certain season, while affected by certain speciffic weather effects.
You shouldn't try to fix this speciffic look with changes to the general lighting engine.

You change ground textures to that map to match the season, you add weather effects like clouds, haze mist, and your lighting engineshould give you the exact look you need, without affecting how your other maps look.
This is where the developpers messed up after clod was released. The original lighting engine was almost perfect. It was tuned by Oleg, who is a proffessional photographer and it showed. No other game had the general lighting rules so refined.
The changes that came after tried to fix local speciffic looks with changes to the general lighting engine and they messed up everything.
That tropical map we have shouldn't look like the southern England during a crappy day. Yet it does.
The problem now is that they will make the new maps for BOM, with the lighting set up for southern England and will mess up the colors even more.
The best solution would be to go back to the original lighting, and adjust local textures and weather to match the region.

+1000
You know what you are talking about.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

From what I see on this droid 3, your second screenshot has way too much Magenta/Red.

What I'm trying to say is that we are talking about a speciffic colors of a certain region, during a certain season, while affected by certain speciffic weather effects.
You shouldn't try to fix this speciffic look with changes to the general lighting engine.

You change ground textures to that map to match the season, you add weather effects like clouds, haze mist, and your lighting engineshould give you the exact look you need, without affecting how your other maps look.
This is where the developpers messed up after clod was released. The original lighting engine was almost perfect. It was tuned by Oleg, who is a proffessional photographer and it showed. No other game had the general lighting rules so refined.
The changes that came after tried to fix local speciffic looks with changes to the general lighting engine and they messed up everything.
That tropical map we have shouldn't look like the southern England during a crappy day. Yet it does.
The problem now is that they will make the new maps for BOM, with the lighting set up for southern England and will mess up the colors even more.
The best solution would be to go back to the original lighting, and adjust local textures and weather to match the region.

+1, I completely agree. I simply use the post-effects as a temporary solution. If I feel the colours look wrong I press 'pause/break' and it all returns to normal.