High Quality Post Effects

You are comparing screenshots from entirely different times of day.

 

The old bloom was far too unrefined and unbalanced. It washed out, burned and gleamed off of everything and I got distracted (if not slightly nauseated) by the fact driving anywhere near midday caused the sky to burn apocalyptic white. Without there's something obviously missing but with there's something obviously distracting. Nuance in the color of light is actually a problem all around with the game's graphics. One of the reasons cars have a certain plasticity to them is because reflections and glow are just a bit too washed out, which, in turn, the devs seemed to try to correct by over-saturating everything else. The lower screenshots aren't nearly as dynamic looking but they're far better composed in terms of light and color balance.

 

I agree about the washed out - and have spoken of it before - but between having a game that only worked if ingame clock was set between 4-6:30pm, and the current (and also hopefully not final) look, I'd rather have the current. We unfortunately still have burn on the clouds and sky, or whatever it's called.

 

I would love to see whatever adjustment is needed to reduce the whiteness in the sky. I have a bad feeling it would mean other things would be worse, since it's all a dynamic and interlinked system, and based on real world measurements. Maybe they could unhook the sky from the system a little bit? I don't know. In this case I don't mind the idea of corrupting full scale real world data for the sake of the illusion of a real sky.

 

When real world numbers don't output the real world result, I think it's fine to fiddle so you get real world results with adjusted values

 

hehe, i think this is about to turn into a tyre/ffb/physics thread... restrain yourselves people, we're talking about the sky

 

Yes I agree the old look was far from perfect. But I would have thought a game developer would refine these things to perfection instead of simply switching them off. Which is why I think Tosch's theory might be right. He seems to know what he is talking about and taking away gfx features seems odd.