I’m not saying color grading is a bad thing, but I personally prefer natural lighting in games over “cinematic” filters.
See more examples: https://imgur.com/a/z6zyTo4
[OC] I think the first mod I'll be installing / making will be one that removes the Instagram-esque filter Bethesda has chosen to apply everywhere
12 Comments
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social · 43 pts · 2y
Doesn’t the original make sense because they are in a room full of warm light sources?
pwnstar@sopuli.xyz · 30 pts · 2y
Yes.
There is literally no white point reference either, so the altered image is just assumed.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee · 21 pts · 2y
I don't think the original is that bad honestly, but I do install reshade in just about every game I play so I can understand. Bottom picture has too high contrast though and levels need adjusted.
apinanaivot@sopuli.xyz · -5 pts · 2y
It's a matter of taste. I set the contrast so that the brightest pixel in the scene is 100% white, and the darkest 100% black, so there is the highest possible dynamic range (and nothing is over or underexposed). The vanilla kind of looks like there is mist everywhere since it's so washed out.
glimse@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2y
You may prefer that contrast but I wouldn't call it "natural lighting"
I don't mean this negatively at all but it reminds me of the photo edits I would make when I first discovered that stuff looks cool if you crush the blacks a bit. That's not how stuff looks with our eyes but it does look nice
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social · 10 pts · 2y
But nothing in reality is 100% black except Vanta Black paint. A painter who makes realistic paintings will never use pure black except for mixing.
emptyother@programming.dev · 0 pts · 2y
But pc screens cant show pure black either. By using the full range of colors, we have more range to show different shades of black without creating a banding effect.
Graylitic@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
emptyother@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
I prefer crushing the whites (a bit of overexposure) than crushing the black. It feels more realistic.
Do people have differences in how bright they see the worlds colors, I wonder? I know, of personal experience, that colors for a single person can literally look bleaker when one is depressed. And then theres people with better night vision than others.
beta_tester@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 2y
apinanaivot@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y
That's how you know constellation headquarters are in Mexico.
Graylitic@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
skankhunt42@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y
Luckily for us gamers New Vegas is not a Bethesda game
cloudless@feddit.uk · 0 pts · 2y
Fallout New Vegas is only playable with the piss filter disabled (via mods).
Starfield looks ok, I think the colours add a bit of alien atmosphere.
massive_bereavement@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
But if there's no piss filter, how do you know you're playing Fallout?