What's wrong with the colours

[steel carter]

I just started playing Under the Waves, on an RTX 3070, and I was expecting Subnautica or better graphics. Under the Waves is far, far from that quality. As it is a much newer game it should really beat Subnautica's graphics hands down, but its graphics are well inferior.,

What's worse there seems to be green and red colour banding and outlines, reminding me of those 3D glasses you need to wear to watch 3D movies, it's making me dizzy. I even took the magnifying glass to make sure, and yes, there are red and green bands, outlines and more, and it is a terrible effect.

[Greed Is Addiction]

You can play this game in genuine stereoscopic 3D using Nvidia 3D Vision and Helix Mod (Geo-11 works too).

[(Clever Name Here)]

It's an stylized game. Not a triple A game meant to be Cyberpunk 2077 graphics. And the game is more about story then anything else. As with most of their games. To be fair this game also has little in common with Subnatica aside form being underwater.

[steel carter]

I took screenshots. You can views them here. https://postimg.cc/gallery/VmNMmHX

I zoomed in, for example to his face. You can clearly see a red and a green line around the outlines his eyebrows, eyes, mouth etc. Those reg/green lines are literally everywhere,

What on earth is happening? Luckily, I refunded the game. Thank you, Steam.

[chrisaverage]

This is an effect called chromatic aberration. It's something that most Unreal Engine games have, since it's enabled by default. Some games let you disable it, but this one has very limited graphics options.

[steel carter]

Thank you for explaining this "effect". As I am having problems with my eyes, double vision from astigmatism, as well as a bit of longsightness both ailments requiring I wear glasses, with acrylic lenses these days, which diffract light into colours, unless you are looking right through the centre of the lens. The result is I am not sure if my eyes are getting worse, if my glasses are not squared on my head or is it the damn game ... Glad it is the stupid game!

[chrisaverage]

Sorry to hear that. I wear glasses too, but it doesn't bother me. It's one of those things a game should have an option for IMO. Since it's pretty much a single line in a config file in UE I don't see a reason not to include it. Same as film grain or motion blur. Some people like it, some can't stand it.

[INKEDinARIZONA]

Not one person gave info on if the game has a option to turn off chromatic aberration??Maybe in the .ini files? No UW support and possible hard coded CA is a tough sell.

[AFatalPapercut]

Chromatic Aberration is a stupid feature anyway, replicating an error you find in camera photography.

[chrisaverage]

Originally posted by AFatalPapercut:

Chromatic Aberration is a stupid feature anyway, replicating an error you find in camera photography.

You can't change FOV with your eyes. FOV slider simulates an error of a camera lens and everyone want it in their games. Is that stupid too? How about flaring, bloom and a long list of other graphical effects? All stupid? Should all games just look the same vanilla and hyper realistic? IMO that would be boring.
It's a question of taste. CA does give the game a specific look. Be mature about it. You don't like it - fine. Doesn't mean it's stupid.

[_APA [~sudo]]

Originally posted by steel carter:

I took screenshots. You can views them here. https://postimg.cc/gallery/VmNMmHX

I zoomed in, for example to his face. You can clearly see a red and a green line around the outlines his eyebrows, eyes, mouth etc. Those reg/green lines are literally everywhere,

What on earth is happening? Luckily, I refunded the game. Thank you, Steam.

I am not sure what is the art style of this game anymore. The more I Read, more I get confused. I might stop following this game once for all and drop it from my wishlist as I Was waiting for UW support but it seems like a lot of people have other issues such as film grain etc also. Until these things are addressed, it makes the game look ugly unless this is the actual style they are going for.