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You might want to adjust your monitor.

When in warp you get a play of light and shadow across the hull, simulating the light distortion from the warp tunnel effect. It doesn't really flash, or strobe... more like shadows flicking quickly across the hull.

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Just to add some information to the discussion:

I just sat with the artist responsible and another QA and showed them the Providence in a long warp, along with several other ships. We were all happy with the effect, including the Providence. Please understand that these are personal opinions that obviously contradict your own, and may come to pass that they contradict the opinions of the community at large.

As this is the first that I have heard of someone having issue with the effect out of anyone posting in the relevant feedback thread or this forum at large, and since the feature has had QA work done on it, we have to take the stance that the feature is "Ready".

However, this does not preclude anyone from having issues with the effect and as such we always invite people to submit a bug report if their EVE experience is negatively affected by the introduction of features.

Please do not take this post as a "Case closed" statement, merely an indication of the development team's stance at the minute.

Without being overly disturbed, I was, too, puzzled when I saw the warp reflexions on my crow for the first time. It doesn't look like reflexion from the warp tunnel, it looks like a (subtle) light blinking randomly to light the whole ship.

The effect would be much better, in my opinion, if we saw the little "water reflexions" that make the warp tunnel. Instead of some bonus lighting alternating with no lighting.

That's what I've been trying to reproduce today but haven't seen it. Can I ask what hardware you run EVE on and if your graphics drivers are up to date?

Also, if you could jump on Singularity if you have a chance and see if that still occurs I would be indebted to you.

The effect does stay crazy if you enter warp while having the old map opened until the ship stops instead of gradually toning down.

My concern would be that more intense colors from the sun in each system would render the look of the ships more muddy and indistinct, overwhelming color variations and making ship detail harder to see. It's not too much of a stretch to suggest that camera drones have exceptionally good auto-white-balance and auto-exposure, given tens of thousands of years to solve such problems. :)

Edit: Just to keep things orderly, please try to keep discussion in this thread on the topic of the warp tunnel animation and put other lighting feedback in an appropriate existing thread, or a new one if you can't locate a good place.

No problem, clearly expressed ideas and feedback like yours are most welcome. I just didn't want to drag the thread too far off the OP's topic myself. :)

I think this is more or less the answer. I haven't had time to record but as I said above, I don't expect that anything is working in a way other than what was intended. But the effect itself is quite bright and doesn't look good (hence my asking if we can have the option to disable it like with the new belt effects - although nobody in their right mind would disable the belt effects, those look amazing!).

This. It plain looks terrible, and very disengaging. Yes it might be "neat" during the first warp, but after that it looks uninteresting and not-good.

It seems like this is just one more of those "lets see how much shiney we can code before something breaks" sorta things, with no regard to how it really looks and feels in-game.


Actually, i would, since they make some deadspace pockets almost unbearable with them added on top of the already ridiculous gas cloud and other environmental effects that tend to white/brown-out the entire screen and melt video cards...