EVE General Discussion

Oh. That's too bad! Well, whatever lighting model Trinity is using, it's used to great effect since the lighting in EVE is some of the best I've seen.

While the lighting can certainly play a role in how demanding Carbon can be, there are a lot of unoptimized elements in its code, and that probably plays a larger role in it being so stressful on GPUs than anything else. The new lighting effects that Incarna will be receiving this Winter don't really affect performance for me (the effects were present in the Duality and Singularity builds that had the other three CQs), but this could be due to some optimization of the Carbon builds on those servers.

That fake new Crow model is fugly, keep the old one.

I remember during last fanfest it was mentioned that CCP wanted to introduce more complex lighting for FIS, so that there would be multiple lights acting in the environment in a more realistic way. For example if you were over a planet, the planet would illuminate the side of your ship, that kind of thing.

Sounded pretty exciting but I got the impression that tech was a while off. Shame really, lighting is an extremely important part of the visuals and could be used to great effect in EVE.

If you approach Jita from four different directions over a long enough distance - yes.

When you are in Jita, approaching different gates within the system will NOT yield a different background image.

They are updating the backgrounds, not the way the backgrounds are rendered - they are still going to be 'boxes', just jaw-droppingly beautiful and specific to the system you are in.

I believe the company that were hired to create the backdrops is framestore

AK

For areas like that, I think a soft particle effect and color grading could go a long way in tandem with crepuscular rays. Ice fields could give a star's light a shade of blue, and veldspar could give a shade of brown/orange. Color grading can be changed depending on a field's contents. Furthermore, a soft particle effect could be given volumetric and light scattering properties to reflect a turret's effects. The result would be really cool looking.


Just because lighting is static doesn't mean it can't look good. Take RAGE for example. Environment lighting in that game is static, but each area is beautifully lit. (Play this game if you haven't done so already!)

Your second point is agreeable. Turret effects definitely should have some lighting effects on the ships they're equipped to as well as their ship's surroundings.

See this new vid

A method that wasn't mentioned yet was the skyboxes could be streamed off of a server as needed and cached with the client.


What I am wondering is this: CCP, will you be realigning the stargates? The problem is, they all point south! This is going to be glaringly obvious once there are external reference points. You'll be traveling north and each time you jump you'll get shot south.

+1 to using the inverse square law (or whatever is artistically suitable) for ambient lighting. This should also drown out the nebula's relative intensity when the scene is bright.

While we are on the topic of graphics, gas giant rings needs to cast shadows.

bla bla blabla......WHEN!!!!!


gieff nebulae

Could we have a nebulae view/tab in the map window? literally learn to navigate by the stars lol. also it would look AWESOME!

edit: for example... open map, i am....here, i need to go to where the red nebulae looks like a sideways pineapple