No "darkness" in the game anymore

[›Kolanaki]

As I play off and on, I don't know what update did this, but recently there is no shade/darkness anywhere in the game. I could be on the dark side of a planet, but everything is still illuminated as if I was in the sun.

It's making getting nice lighting in my ships and stations a problem since I can't see what anything looks like when it's dark.

[dino_inc]

what direct x version are you on in settings? i seem to remember something like that in options messing with my lighting

[›Kolanaki]

DX11.

[dino_inc]

Originally posted by › The Cool Side of the Pillow:

DX11.

maybe not, then. have you tried changing around some of the graphics settings?

[icecold951]

Been a problem, actually. At least two updates, as far as I know. Annoying and emersion breaking. Why they aren't fixing it, I don't know. Last update, they focused on sounds. Because the firist thing a person thinks is, "I hope it sounds cool."

[Twelve]

#bringbackthedarkness!

there was a post on ksh forum from a dev acknowledging the issue but no estimation on a fix.

[Ω Spriggan Ω]

i feel you....

my engineer seems to have perfect night vision and its annoying removes the need for any lights.

[Arran Chace]

If you want to fix this quickly, go to SHIFT-F12 dev menu, go to renderer settings (middle Button), then go to SSAO setting (allmost last option on the list), and turn contrast a bit down (remember to use alt to move the sliders)..
If its still to bright, then close the SSAO tab (unchecking the radio button) and open the
imageFX setiing (think its called that, atm not on a PC with SE, doing this on top of my head) and fiddle there with the Contrast and Brightness setting to you'r liking..

Now dark is with me really DARK again, cant see crap without lights...
Somehow makes the whole game prettier too again with deep dark shadows.

[icecold951]

Originally posted by Arran Chace:

If you want to fix this quickly, go to SHIFT-F12 dev menu, go to renderer settings (middle Button), then go to SSAO setting (allmost last option on the list), and turn contrast a bit down (remember to use alt to move the sliders)..
If its still to bright, then close the SSAO tab (unchecking the radio button) and open the
imageFX setiing (think its called that, atm not on a PC with SE, doing this on top of my head) and fiddle there with the Contrast and Brightness setting to you'r liking..

Now dark is with me really DARK again, cant see crap without lights...
Somehow makes the whole game prettier too again with deep dark shadows.

Shift F12 doesn't do crap.

[Arran Chace]

Turn on Creative mode first... (Alt-F10) if your in survival mode..

[icecold951]

Originally posted by Arran Chace:

Turn on Creative mode first... (Alt-F10) if your in survival mode..

Tried it, the dev mode does not recognize it as creative, even though was fully able to drop a block. I've tried the dev mode in creative, but I was unimpressed. Looked like crap.

[Twelve]

Originally posted by Arran Chace:

If you want to fix this quickly, go to SHIFT-F12 dev menu, go to renderer settings (middle Button), then go to SSAO setting (allmost last option on the list), and turn contrast a bit down (remember to use alt to move the sliders)..
If its still to bright, then close the SSAO tab (unchecking the radio button) and open the
imageFX setiing (think its called that, atm not on a PC with SE, doing this on top of my head) and fiddle there with the Contrast and Brightness setting to you'r liking..

Now dark is with me really DARK again, cant see crap without lights...
Somehow makes the whole game prettier too again with deep dark shadows.

you are awesome, ive been playing around with this and got my game to be really dark and everything seem to work ok (lighting etc)

what i changed was the following..

image settings - exposure = -2.876
ssao - contrast = 0.836

if you want to go super dark then also the following

render overides - untick tonemapping.


also as icecold951 said it doesnt work in survival even with alt f10 i had to switch the game to creative mode in world settings to open dev console (make sure you depower your base first to avoid inventory loss)


again thanks to Arran Chace for suggestion this method! <3

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=685201625

[Twelve]

♥♥♥♥. all settings are not saved after you quite the game.. this fix is too much of a ball ache for survival games : /

[R3n@n8R]

It's not the same thing. This is no different than changing the settings of your monitor. All the light sources are affected. The bright side is dimmed, it is not like the old days when only the dark side was very dark. When I'm inside some asteroid, it should be completely dark but it is still very clear.

[Anunnaki_65355]

News:
Press LCTRL + F12, then tab RENDER then:

1) HDR settings needs to be tweaked, because in some cases, it works exactly opposite as it should be.

2) BUT main problem is in VERY TERRIBLE setting in "IMAGE SETTINGS" menu. Via this, now we can make DARK underground bases in case of power/light failure completely BLACK, just control lights shining ...

I am experimenting with this little bit ... trying to find best realistic option ... let you know my findings and values later.

[R3n@n8R]

Originally posted by Anunnaki EN/CZ/SK:

News:
Press LCTRL + F12, then tab RENDER then:

1) HDR settings needs to be tweaked, because in some cases, it works exactly opposite as it should be.

2) BUT main problem is in VERY TERRIBLE setting in "IMAGE SETTINGS" menu. Via this, now we can make DARK underground bases in case of power/light failure completely BLACK, just control lights shining ...

I am experimenting with this little bit ... trying to find best realistic option ... let you know my findings and values later.

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As I said...
It's not the same thing.
I've dealt with these settings before.
If you mess with contrast, brightness, etc., every shadow get dark, along with what should not be different. This is no different than changing the settings of your monitor.
"All the light sources are affected"
Developers need only bring the lighting system and previous shading right back again.

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In this video we can see how good the game's lighting system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6a482wtVwI