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Jumped on Sisi to check this out for myself!

CCP pls. C1-C5 are cream colored with slight variations.

C1 Cream
C2 Cream + black spot in middle
C3 Cream + red spot in middle
C4 Red + cream spot in middle
C5 Creamy red
C6 wasn't in my chain so can't comment

Another thing to note is the nebulae is smaller taking up a smaller portion of a hemisphere. This makes it easier to distinguish where your wh leads to but it makes it take long because you have to turn the camera until the nebulae is shown. Currently you can glance at wh and know where it leads. C5 wh without nebulae in focus vs C5 in focus. Since all the wh's are black when nebulae isn't in focus you'll spend more time ID'ing whs.

Please add more contrast between wh classes!

+1 the old backgrounds had certainly more color variation which made them easier distinguishable

Could you also please check on lower videosettings because most likely noone in the artteam every tried that?

I am very happy we are finally getting improved grafics, but there are some buts:
It was already easy to confuse a c1 and a c2 hole (pic for reference) and it now still is. Ofc this is only for frigholes since normal holes have different shipsizeeffects. Same for c6s and minmatarspace (textbox solves this since one is deadly unknown and the other known).
Rest seems to be ok through the hole but not that easy to differenciate in system. They are really kinda small and it takes away the feel of being in a wormhole system. Right now you jump in and often think "Yeah, this is not k-space it is really blue/green/red in here".

Also, is it implemented the same way the k-space skyboxes are with being bigger/smaller depending on the location of the system or is it just 6 different looks for the 6 classes? Do some of the systemeffects interfere with the points of interest(I am looking at you huge blackholespacetoilet)?

Just beautiful. Definitely going to have to go exploring through w-space soon! CCP's graphics team is one of the best in the business, keep up the good work!

Everything disabled or on low EXCEPT shader which is at medium. If shader is on low wh's just look static and a blob in space

C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6 not in chain

No difference between high and low settings in my opinion.

Bonus! Cloak effect on low settings shader @medium

I have some feedback regarding colours of the wormholes.

I know you guys actually looked up sience behind what a wormhole is and how would it look like if it was to occur. why not make the colours that denote maximum jump mass be scientific as well?

Let's assume frigate sized wormhole produces shortest wavelengths, so it should remain blue, or even violet
Now the middle size wormhole should be green, as it produces medium wavelengths. Battleship sized WH should be yellow or gold, and the biggest one that allows capitals should emit longest wavelengths, so should be red.

What do you think? AFAIK this shouldn't be much of a problem to change (my guess is this shader takes this colour as parameter), and would keep the "scientific" feel.

I have to say, overall I like the changes, but there are some things I'm not happy with.

I do like the new strands indicating the size of ship that can pass through the wormhole. It might take a bit to get used to, but it's good visual information.

The lack of distinguishing color in each wormhole class seems like a loss. It was a nice way of quickly identifying the class of the wormhole from the outside, and also comfortable on the inside.

I really enjoyed the blue/green/aqua color of the C1 and C2 wormholes - they were just pleasant to be in, and felt like you were underwater. The dusky color of the C3 and more vibrant C4 let you know where you were. The more dangerous C5 and C6 colors in red were a bit tiring after a while, but relayed the additional danger.

With the new nebulas, it seems this was really scaled back. Having to identify based on the nebula alone doesn't make a lot of sense. Here's a sample video of the inside of the wormholes for perspective.

Also, the Black Hole still looks like a gaping anus. Please for the love of Bob change it, I can't stand to look at the animation.

Those nebulae... They're amazing... Many thanks CCP for the update!

Now, some feedback. They look really nice, and they still keep some "cloud-looking" feel they had before the update. Also, it seems you did put some purple in there!

There is a problem though, which is they look too similar. Perhaps those systems are not that far away betwee each other. However, those colors did add variety and helped identify the classes. These are some small possible tweaks that would help identification, while keeping the new colors and theme (we don't need the old colors, we just need them to be different from each other). I'm using the provided link as reference; later I'll check them in SiSi.

C1: white, blue and black. Simple and ominous for what should be new player's first view of unknown space. Looks great as it is.

C2: changes C1's blue into brown/gold. Looks very nice, but perhaps could use more enphasis on brown.

C3: more white, black, and now maroon. All that white and maroon reminds of the old C3 nebula, but perhaps could use more color saturation.

C4: that green and yellow clouds remind of the old C4's, but the ones put it close to C3's. I'd say make those green and yellow clouds more dominant.

C5: looks good, although I'll have to check an ingame one first.

C6: also nice and reminds of the old nebula, although I'd like it to be a bit more different than the old one. I'll also have to check it out ingame.

Hopefully these tweaks could help identification. On the other hand, while writing this list, I've seen I can now identify their new colors and shapes fairly easily; perhaps it's just a matter of getting used to it. I'll have to see them through WH's too, though.

And, those new WH animations are cool as hell :)

Excellent job, art department!

EDIT: I' ve seen 2 of the nebulae ingame.

C4: I couldn't find the green cloud. Might be because of the Black Hole that was in there. I'd suggest to try an put System Effects on the empty areas of the background, so they don't cover the nice nebulae. [adittion from another C4] The previous Black Hole was covering an enormous white cloud. It looks fantastic, and makes you wonder which natural conditions would make it appear in there, so contrasting with the rest of the nebula. That white nebula is easy to spot when looking at WH's, making the class easy to identify.

C5: [editing an error; I was first looking at a C4] A pinkish nebula with inner brightness diffused by a closer cloud. Looks... misterious. Like there's a big danger inside it, but covered by a difusing veil that keeps you from knowing too much about it. The ambient music helped to that effect. Too much H.P. Lovecraft lately. Apart from that, the nebula looks nice. The general pink-red color makes it easy to identify when looking at WH's.

These are pretty, but as others have said, the nebulae are not distinct enough for C1-4.

The ship class information is cool to have I guess, but tbh it's only relevant in extremely rare cases in practice.

What I personally missed from wormholes is the idea/look of spacial distortion.

In nature we don't know of any wormholes but the theory says it would warp spacetime much like a black hole. As such it would be awesome to introduce a lensing effect around the wormhole, like this:

http://www.strings.ph.qmul.ac.uk/~bigdraw/penrose/slide2.html

Of course I have no idea whether this is technically possible in the game, but it would reinforce the idea that wormholes are strange, anomalous objects. I'd really love to see that introduced.