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Love the chrome on Gallente wheels! <3

Okay, only minor impact on performance...
But what about very low-end computers (like Notebooks or TabletPCs with onboard graphics)?
How does it affect players that use the lowest graphics settings?
Will it be visible at all? Is there a way to deactivate it? Will it raise the minimum specs of EVE?

(Luckily, I still have a monster desktop machine to admire PBR in all its full glory. Looks nice!)

Does that mean that... there's a chance that... Minmatar ships will be rusty again?

Is there a way to have the dark side of ships actually be dark? this is space and all. The ambient light everywhere makes everything all fuzzy. This could be fine in the nebula systems but is the more isolated system where you just have a star?

I guess you can say that the new light modeling looks pretty... Schlick.

I don't like the look of caldari hulls, they look like plastic models in space. I hope it's just bad images.

This.

Caldari and Minmatar, due to their design themes, wind up looking worse in most cases. The drake, especially, looks as you said like a slightly melted plastic model. The gunmetal gray of most caldari ships isn't going to reflect much light, so gets no benefit from the new system, and you lose the definition of its edges which is something that the new system relies on reflections to show.

Amarr (shiny red and gold) and Gallente (shiny green and silver) look way better.

Right. Any news you can share about that?

My biggest concern in the last 10 years of CGI is in the pursuit of 'realism' in graphics we lose a bit of the charm of a video game. I'd rather my game feel more like Tron then CoD. That aside there is a problem I see often in newer rendering systems:

In moving to PBR the material definitions developers have used tend to make everything look like matte plastic or crumpled up aluminium foil. The earliest problem I saw was in games that had chrome-like materials where it looked like someone took foil crumpled it up, and hammered it out to a flat surface. My guess was they early on had to figure out how to dodge a real reflection. It still is a problem in games as recent as Tomb Raider, Dark Souls 2, and most MMOs still to date. Looking at the shots of the Amarr ships for example. the gold metallic points look more like they've been dusted with glitter but that could be implementation issues on the hardware itself. Some of the shots look good, like they are plates of metal, and in some others that glitter\grainy\'crunchy?' effect seems more present. Most of the ships still look like they are made of plastic rather then a solid metal (Gallente it's much more pronounced). I am wondering if the material updates later on will fix it or if minor noise function is needed.

Q1: Does the new PBR system still allow for bump mapping data to be included? Looking at the Brutix example the plate lines on the ship seem to loose their sharpness, they look more painted on then a plate boundary. Would updated Bump Mapping data help that?

Q2: Is the plastic-esque effect something that is the result of the material data of the ship's textures?

Q3: With the advent of HDR is the max white point something that can be tuned? Looking at the Apocalypse sample often the brightest points end up a white mess washing out the image. Is there HDR data that the new rendering pipe can use to temper that effect?

Q4: Can we get a JJ Abrams option to throw a **** ton of lens flares around for no reason ; ? see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPuUiENIuPI for reference.

Oh wow...the new ships f*cking SHINE I love this!!!