Night too "light"?

[derstosstrupp]

I second this. Night time needs fixing. The spotting range is too high, and yes the ships are too bright. Historical accounts describe surface shooting sometimes at dark shapes, and the U-boat commander’s handbook explicitly mentions how difficult estimating AOB is at night. Plus, once we can get reasonably close, as in 1000 m or less on a dark night, that will allow this very important tactic, the night surface attack, to be finally possible in the game.

[VonHoffman]

I third, fourth, and fifth this.

Night time is too light! It must be drastically darkened.

It seems the sim already accounts for visibility distance, but graphically it is far too bright.

[Fidd]

What I was driving at was the great contrast between the white-upper-works and masts etc, and the darkness behind. I figure if the dark was less dark, and the white of the ships much darker, then it would appear visually consistent.

As it is, the ships appear to be painted with luminous paint!

[VonHoffman]

Originally Posted by Fidd

What I was driving at was the great contrast between the white-upper-works and masts etc, and the darkness behind. I figure if the dark was less dark, and the white of the ships much darker, then it would appear visually consistent.

As it is, the ships appear to be painted with luminous paint!

Yes!

The visibility fog needs a tweak, too. The gradient is too steep. They should fade out sooner and more gradually, loosing contrast first.

There also seems to be a weird graphical artifact with smoke.

[gurudennis]

The ships are too bright indeed. I think Onkel is aware (we talked about it before) but whether the developers are treating it with priority is another matter. It's been broken for several patches now.

Conversely, the spotting range is fixed at least as of 0.20. In pitch black conditions you are only spotted at 200 m (!).

[Fidd]

So here's the question, if the ship upper-works are more of an escort-grey - I attach a couple of admittedly black and white pictures my father took crossing the Atlantic during the war - where he was trained to fly before returning to the UK. These pictures are thought to have been taken circa February 1945. Note the very dilapidated appearance of the majority of ships, and the general, but not complete absence, of white upper-works.

A following reply will attach others. which I hope will be of some interest

[Fidd]

Hmm can't post remainder due some limit or other.