The Nebulas look awesome however the darkness behind stations and likely other objects sometimes make it rather difficult to navigate my ship... When Im flying behind a station sometimes I panic and can't even see my ship

the art department can take care of the nebs. devs can work on gallente.

1. gates should be rotated to fire in the direction of the nebula. to hell with people's BM's. if you do this, at least everyone is starting off at the same level. you cant let a minor inconvenience totally destroy the immersion. you've worked hard on this.

2. a different nebula snapshot per constellation is required to give people a sense of traveling through the things.

3. please add the nebs on the starmap; this cant be hard. this way, after 7 years, traveling through solar systems will actually mean something

with these 3 changes (and fixed glitches), EVE's environment will be beautiful. you have a great asset, plz dont half-ass the implementation.

love you. thanks.

I haven't read the thread much but some quick points, probably repeats:

-+ Camera stuttering here too.
-+ Some of the colour banding is seriously heavy. Is it impossible to address at this point? I can't unsee it.
-+ Space definitely too dark in many areas. Simulation is one thing, eye strain going unnoticed is another. Eve is not a quick-session game.

Imho I think these 3 points need work before going live.


I definitely am of the opinion that ships simply look worse. I am not sure if this is a known technical point or my personal taste. It was mentioned in the dev blog but I thought nothing of it, but now I do feel disappointed. Using my shinier ships - Anathema and Malediction - I feel like three things hurt the looks:
-+ The busy-ness or something about the reflections give the ships a rough, scruffy look.
-+ Getting a lot of green & yellow on the ship, which eh, sounds silly but it's kind of army/compost feeling all the time.
-+ The sleek look of the ship now seems to be turned into plastic? I don't know the inner goings-on here but yeah, now the Anathema looks like a lot of grey plastic. Smeared with green at times. This plastic look is really pretty bad for the Anathema at least. =/

Are the different light colours from each system's star not working. I don't know, just registering impressions here.

Don't get me wrong, the nebulae look really good but personally I would rather keep my ships looking really good. I love how good the Anathema looks on TQ, but now it's kind of taking a visual nerf.

The last build has far too many stars in it. I lked the previous version, darker and with less stars more.

Edit:

Right now it is totally over the top, even more stars then on TQ at moment which is just silly.

I'm not a fan of the new nebulae at all. I feel like it's too dark and much less, well, invoking than the colorful backgrounds as they are now. I like how current backgrounds change their color and arrangement from sector to sector (maybe not system to system, but they're good as they are now).

To reiterate comments by previous posts, indeed, the new nebulae lacks depth. Effectively, it seems like it's one big blotch of colors on a black background and that's it. For me, it's actually boring.

Call it artsy, but I actually enjoy the backgrounds as they are now. The new nebulae being all black and only a big splotch of colors in one position doesn't make me feel too involved in the universe and actually makes me cringe a little bit-almost as if it makes me feel more vulnerable.

I know, call it "lacking a warm and fuzzy feeling," but the new nebulae does exactly this to me. I like the backgrounds as they are.

That's Verge Vendor. I pass through it all the time. It looks like that.

I do agree with you on the nebulae lacking some depth. This is probably due to compression or resolution. I think if the in-game nebulae looked more like the nebulae in the Crucible wallpapers, there wouldn't be a problem.

I'm a little shocked that this hasn't been said yet (or I missed it), but the background stars are simply TOO BRIGHT.

The new nebulae are perfect, literally perfect, but the star-field was overdone. Stars are not this bright in space, not even close. Yes, of course I also understand that nebulae are also not this bright and must be generated with false coloring applied to long exposure photographs outside the visible spectrum, but there is NO reason to make stars appear as they do in these type of pictures as well. Simply put, for this, this just doesn't fee like space. And, as a rocket scientists, I really care about these types of things :x

I don't believe that we need a complete return to what is on TQ right now, because I like the more viable field, especially now that is reflect real-eve-world positions of the other star systems. AND I do like that the close systems appear much brighter, but the BACKGROUND field is too bright. Please, please pass this along to your art dept and consider toning it down. It would be a three-fold improvement: 1) more realistic 2) highlight your addition of representative stars in the field 3) make the nebulae stand out more.

I have one question...
If we have stars of different colors in systems...
why thats not the case on sky?
why all stars on the sky have the same color???

Now you jump to white star and end up in system with star of some other color...

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1111/Allskynebulaesurvey113.11.pdf

can someone please validate this