[CLOSED, NO BUG] Colours of the landschape textures too bright / washed out

[BudgietheLittleHelicopter]

Thanks ED for this great upgrade of my favourite flight sim.

 

It is not so much a bug, but I find that the landscape textures are very bright. I would describe it as washed out. If the colours were slightly darker it would look much more realistic.

 

In the attached picture you can see how pale the landscape looks compared to the helicopter. Clouds look great by the way.

[sobek]

The side of the helicopter you are looking at is self-shadowed, that's why it's so dark.

[BudgietheLittleHelicopter]

Some extra pictures

 

Yes Sobek, perhaps the helicopter is not a good reference. Here are some picture with the A10c with the sun above. Don't you think it looks pale?

[*Rage*]

It was similar in DCS 1.2.

 

Hopefully some of the texture/sweetfx mods can be altered to work with 1.5

[Bourrinopathe]

So far I really enjoy the new textures but I think I understand what you mean.

 

As an unfair comparison material here's another A-10:

(not the same region, not the same lighting conditions, not the same angle, probably not the same season, and absolutely not a game)

 

Here's a Su-25 over Georgia (less vibrant):

 

My guess is that uniform color tint (the "washed out" effect) is due to the source material used by Mustang.

It's most probably a fairly high altitude photography with some atmospheric haze (and blueish tint over it).

It's particularly difficult to modify that kind of pictures. And most of the time they are a bit blurry.

 

At least the current result feels homogeneous and pretty realistic at med/high altitudes.

Just my two cents of course ;)

[Raven434th]

I noticed on the winter maps its really washed out,almost no detail at all...we need a fix or option for this IMO,as it looks terrible.

[Vandal71]

I agree the colors are to washed out, it looks unnatural.

[319th Rhino]

The colors are extremely blue, and especially when you look in the distance everything is ' hazy'.