Is it just me?

[AVGWarhawk]

Is it just me or does every screenshot/video for SH4 look dark and colorless? The water looks black. The ships have very muddled colors. The sky is not much better looking. The game just looks like a colorless world to me. I use two different computers so I know it is not the computers. Last time I looked the Pacific waters around HI are light blue. It is a bright and sunny place with lush green vegetation. Why does the harbor in the one video showing cranes moving etc look like the Exxon Valdez has spilled oil all over the place? Is it just me or do other see this as well:hmm:. To my eye, SH3 has more color and does not seem like horror movie is about to start when I look at it.

[TDK1044]

I think this will be a question of which Graphical settings and filters are applied in SH4.

[AVGWarhawk]

I do not see this affecting what I see now. Even the ships shown on the SH4 website are all muddled and colorless. Color is color. Most of the colors I see are dark and dirty looking. The water looks almost black

[ReallyDedPoet]

I've noticed this as well. Some of the screens are really impressive, others not much different then SH3, in fact are a little gloomier as you mentioned.

Just have to wait and see.

[TDK1044]

Take into account though, Guys, that many of the screenshots and videos came from an early version of the game.

[Barkhorn1x]

No worries.

Gamma adjustment is a slider option - you will have to play around with it until it suites you.

[mookiemookie]

I kind of like the fact that the ships look dark and dingy. Makes them look more weathered and realistic.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I kind of like the fact that the ships look dark and dingy. Makes them look more weathered and realistic.

Well, that is fine but it seems all are like that for the most part. Anyway, I just looked at the new video that was posted from the developers. Much different than the earlier versions. Water looks blue. Maybe just early developement. Like Reallydedpoat said gloomy. Seemed a little less gloomy on the new video.

[badaboom]

The ship model detail looks fantastic from what I could see in the new video.....come on 3-20-07!!!!

[Iron Budokan]

I noticed it, too. It looks pretty bad. But frankly this is one aspect I'm not worried about. Prolly early shots or badly photoshopped or something, that's all.

[Barkhorn1x]

Gamma baby! Just think gamma.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Well, that is fine but it seems all are like that for the most part. Anyway, I just looked at the new video that was posted from the developers. Much different than the earlier versions. Water looks blue. Maybe just early developement. Like Reallydedpoat said gloomy. Seemed a little less gloomy on the new video.

Let's just wait and see. I'm sure things will look pretty on a sunny South Pacific day.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Let's just wait and see. I'm sure things will look pretty on a sunny South Pacific day.

Thats what I'm hoping for. The Pacific is nice and sunny. Water is clear. Sure, the ships can rust buckets like they are supposed to be but the early screenshots everything was looking like a rust bucket.

[Mylander]

I agree, AVG

I'm also hoping that this is just a function of screenshots not conveying the true colors in the sim. Yes, the deep Pacific waters should be blue; shallows mostly turquoise with some dark for reefs, and some turbulent areas are kind of a murky green, but mostly the blue and turquoise colors. On a sunny day, the sky should be that cerulean blue with big white pelagic cumulus clouds! But I wax poetic. The Ubi guys are from Romania, right? their own experience of oceans proabably "colors" their sense of what looks right. Maybe they should have done some "research" in Tahiti or Hawaii first.

I hope the environment looks awesome, but I also think that we can tweek some colors fairly painlessly if we don't like it. Ubi seems to always do such an excellent job, some fine-tuning can be a lot of work but also fun (in a sick sort of way).:hmm:

Mylander

[hyperion2206]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Is it just me or does every screenshot/video for SH4 look dark and colorless? The water looks black. The ships have very muddled colors. The sky is not much better looking. The game just looks like a colorless world to me. I use two different computers so I know it is not the computers. Last time I looked the Pacific waters around HI are light blue. It is a bright and sunny place with lush green vegetation. Why does the harbor in the one video showing cranes moving etc look like the Exxon Valdez has spilled oil all over the place? Is it just me or do other see this as well:hmm:. To my eye, SH3 has more color and does not seem like horror movie is about to start when I look at it.

It could be that the "Hollywood effect" or however it is called was enabled. This effect makes things look like they were filmed during the war e.g. less color.