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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2014.11.17 21:51:26 -
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Just chiming in to say that I love everything I've seen so far. I'm looking forward to being able to see ships that are supposed to look impressive and grand. I'm tired of piloting indistinct brownish blobs around, no being able to appreciate them unless I dock in an Amarr station, and having to enhance every screenshot I take so that people can actually make out the ships in the picture.
The Absolution! Mind. Blown.
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Dersen Lowery
Drinking in Station
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Posted - 2014.11.24 15:52:22 -
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Arronicus wrote:Ouch. Already realized just how bad they made the Sansha line of ships look now, but I'm kinda shocked to see how much worse the new blood raiders paint job is too. This actually makes me really sad to see both Sansha and Blood raiders losing their paintjobs for shiny/dull greys. The 'new' versions look like what you would IMPROVE into looking like the old versions...
I like them. They look like cyborg beetles.
I don't mind if Gallente are bright and shiny; we should be glad they don't have laser light shows and disco balls, too. (That should be the Erebus' doomsday weapon.)
The one obvious downgrade, for me, is that the blood red of Blood Raiders ships is a more washed-out brown now. The red on the SoE ships also gets desaturated, which doesn't necessarily look worse, but it's less striking.
Caldari hulls come out well, and Amarr Victor.
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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2014.12.05 16:07:23 -
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Arthur Aihaken wrote:Xindi Kraid wrote:The problem is it hasn't been properly taken advantage of yet. The ships that look drab aren't that way because of PBR specifically, it's because the ships themselves could use some work. it's these textures that need to be worked on rather than the system itself. None of us disagree with this assessment. Our point has been that until the textures are updated (hi-res?) and tweaked to look ideal under PBR, it shouldn't be released as it will be perceived as a step back.
Counterpoint: unless they deploy PBR, we can't give meaningful feedback on whether the tweaks to the ships look good.
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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2014.12.31 20:35:35 -
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Alvatore DiMarco wrote:My only real concern with the PBR is that if they're going to do it, ships should look approximately the same artistically and the PBR should just make them look more realistic.
Instead we're seeing significant artistic changes to some of the ships being done at the exact same time as significant rendering changes are being implemented (such as Serpentis being changed from black to grey)[.]
That's because when you change the lighting model, the colors change. The colors you're seeing under PBR are the ones they had to fudge or exaggerate in order to get a close-enough color under the old, more approximate lighting model.
It's sort of like if you got yourself dressed in some wild multicolored fluorescent light, then stepped out into daylight and realized that everything you were wearing on clashed horribly.
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