@FD - Hidden Graphics Settings ?

[Dicehunter]

I just had a little play around with a graphics tweak and mod for this game, The tweaking part was a text file basically, And the results were amazing, I started with this -


https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4vc5fn/so_i_edited_the_graphics_config_file/


And minus the galaxy map which is a tad bright now, I cannot for the life of me think why Frontier Developments would not "Turn On" these settings as they give the game a fantastic visual overhul, The galaxy actually has detail now, The HUD has a lovely glow to it, Materials have more detail in general, Stars look like stars with actual brightness to them now, Even ships look, Well, Better, Whether this is due to the surrounding environmental detail or the settings themselves I'm not sure.

The mod part of the game was the "Squeegee" mod and the "Space Dust" mod, 2 items which really clean the game up, The space dust mod gets rid of the small particles that appear onscreen when in normal flight or super cruise, Sadly only works with Nvidia cards at the moment, And it makes the game so much more realistic.

The Squeegee mod gets rid of those dirty smudges and smears on your ships windows, Making them look nice and clean.

Come on devs, I know you lot despise intercting with your customers but can you please give a valid reason as to why these things like planet detail with 4K and even 8K textures, Planet cloud detail, MUCH higher star count, Nebula size, No space dust, Clean looking ship windows etc... are not toggleable options ingame ?

It can't be peformance as I tried this on a system with an AMD RX-580 and performance was not changed much minus 1-2 FPS here and there.

The only logical conclusion I can come to is that these may be implemented in a future update and you'll be like "look at what we did" even though these have been ingame for quite some time now, OR, It's just laziness, I'm betting it's the former.


Some images that are like a whole new game -


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1181030993
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1181031170
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1181031286
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1181031343
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1181031406
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1181048067


A good before/after example of the detail gained not just on planets but the galactic background -

Before -

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1181070187


After -

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1181069365



Side by side -

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1183766688



NOTE: This topic isn't about the oversaturated and overly bright areas, It's about the details that this tweak brings out.

[Eddie Gearknob]

Cheers for this fella, very much appreciated :)

[Dicehunter]

Originally posted by VeefourLFC:

Cheers for this fella, very much appreciated :)

You're welcome, I hope FD will give us the option 1 day to do this ingame rather than through a .ini file.

[Deep Thought]

WOW i use a modified Green H.U.D. entered that setting into this new file
Looks great & even Better the mission givers/eneneers heads are the correct colour not red shifted

You should post this on the official Frontier forums

[Dicehunter]

Originally posted by Deep Thought:

WOW i use a modified Green H.U.D. entered that setting into this new file
Looks great & even Better the mission givers/eneneers heads are the correct colour not red shifted

You should post this on the official Frontier forums

Apparently it already has been by others over a year ago and FD still haven't done anything, Such a wasted opportunity on their part.

[Deep Thought]

Thats a shame

[ZombieHunter]

Those don't look better to me. The detail in the Milky Way is over the top and too wild. The brightness is overdone and everything looks oversaturated. Not sure why people seem to love overbright and over post processed images. They look terrible to me.

The Milky Way looks especially terrible and you can almost see the horrid paintbrush texture they used to blend in to create the overall effect. Probably why they toned it down a bit in the release.

[Dicehunter]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Those don't look better to me. The detail in the Milky Way is over the top and too wild. The brightness is overdone and everything looks oversaturated. Not sure why people seem to love overbright and over post processed images. They look terrible to me.

Oh I agree on the overly bright part but this is just a tweak, All the extra detail though in the background and on the planet isn't really visible in the vanilla game.

[lnomsim]

the problem with those tweaks is that thay can mess up the lights very badly.
For exemple, yes, the cloud brightness you use lookss very epic from the bubble and in space.
But....
Don't expaect to see anything on the galaxy map, there won't be any dark side on any planet now, and I don't recommend you go anywhere near the galaxy center unless you want to get blind.
though, I'm curious about what setting you changed o make the ships looks so good.

Oh, and don't simply copy paste, if I'm not mistaken it's an old file, so a lot of new graphics effect aren't included, so it could mess up with your graphics.

[Dicehunter]

Originally posted by lnomsim:

the problem with those tweaks is that thay can mess up the lights very badly.
For exemple, yes, the cloud brightness you use lookss very epic from the bubble and in space.
But....
Don't expaect to see anything on the galaxy map, there won't be any dark side on any planet now, and I don't recommend you go anywhere near the galaxy center unless you want to get blind.
though, I'm curious about what setting you changed o make the ships looks so good.

The brightness and over saturation can easily be fixed by tweaking more, the point is the extra details in the ships, stations, Galactic background that this little tweak brings to the table, All I did was copy the pastebin text and paste it where it says, I did nothing else.

[raymazoida]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Those don't look better to me. The detail in the Milky Way is over the top and too wild. The brightness is overdone and everything looks oversaturated. Not sure why people seem to love overbright and over post processed images. They look terrible to me.

The Milky Way looks especially terrible and you can almost see the horrid paintbrush texture they used to blend in to create the overall effect. Probably why they toned it down a bit in the release.

I get the same feeling.

I do a lot of landscape photography where my goal is to replicate what I'm seeing. Most people though prefer wildly overprocessed images that look horrible when I look at them.

If I overprocess somthing to the point I no longer like it I can gaurentee I'll get more "wow thats great" feedback, than if I show the actual beauty of nature etc.....

anyway....

[Dicehunter]

Originally posted by mrraybaker:

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Those don't look better to me. The detail in the Milky Way is over the top and too wild. The brightness is overdone and everything looks oversaturated. Not sure why people seem to love overbright and over post processed images. They look terrible to me.

The Milky Way looks especially terrible and you can almost see the horrid paintbrush texture they used to blend in to create the overall effect. Probably why they toned it down a bit in the release.

I get the same feeling.

I do a lot of landscape photography where my goal is to replicate what I'm seeing. Most people though prefer wildly overprocessed images that look horrible when I look at them.

If I overprocess somthing to the point I no longer like it I can gaurentee I'll get more "wow thats great" feedback, than if I show the actual beauty of nature etc.....

anyway....

The point of this post isn't about the overly saturated and overly bright areas, It's about the details in the nebula, Ships, Planets and stations that this tweak brings to the table, Over saturation and brightness can be fixed.

[raymazoida]

Originally posted by Dicehunter:

Originally posted by mrraybaker:

I get the same feeling.

I do a lot of landscape photography where my goal is to replicate what I'm seeing. Most people though prefer wildly overprocessed images that look horrible when I look at them.

If I overprocess somthing to the point I no longer like it I can gaurentee I'll get more "wow thats great" feedback, than if I show the actual beauty of nature etc.....

anyway....

The point of this post isn't about the overly saturated and overly bright areas, It's about the details in the nebula, Ships, Planets and stations that this tweak brings to the table, Over saturation and brightness can be fixed.

Ok, I would be interested to see it fixed then....

[Dicehunter]

Originally posted by mrraybaker:

Originally posted by Dicehunter:

The point of this post isn't about the overly saturated and overly bright areas, It's about the details in the nebula, Ships, Planets and stations that this tweak brings to the table, Over saturation and brightness can be fixed.

Ok, I would be interested to see it fixed then....

If the devs shift their behinds into gear we may see it done.

[lnomsim]

you can lessen the brightness by modifying the exposition setting under the hdrnode table, try to reduce it.
But it can make dark font hard to read.

You can also install a reshade preset over this tweak to reduce stauration and exposition.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Those don't look better to me. The detail in the Milky Way is over the top and too wild. The brightness is overdone and everything looks oversaturated. Not sure why people seem to love overbright and over post processed images. They look terrible to me.

The Milky Way looks especially terrible and you can almost see the horrid paintbrush texture they used to blend in to create the overall effect. Probably why they toned it down a bit in the release.

I'm guessing you don't live anywhere near a dark zone (no light polution)?