Quick question about terrain and colour

[Dudester22]

With all the colours you can pick from in Photoshop, to the point where you can click on any colour from any picture in Photoshop, and then add it as a colour to your paint pallet. Why is then that an every flight sim I come across the grass and terrain never seem to look the right colours? The grass always the main culprit and seems to look a totally different green to real grass. Why is this? Or am I just colour blind or something?

[Flagrum]

With all the colours you can pick from in Photoshop, to the point where you can click on any colour from any picture in Photoshop, and then add it as a colour to your paint pallet. Why is then that an every flight sim I come across the grass and terrain never seem to look the right colours? The grass always the main culprit and seems to look a totally different green to real grass. Why is this? Or am I just colour blind or something?

I think, one aspect is that there is no such thing as "the grass". There are thousand types of grass growing on thousand different types of soil in thousand different areas of the world ...

 

(and then there are also thousands of non-calibrated monitors in the world, too ... :o)

[cichlidfan]

For example, here is a Google Earth shot of a golf course in my area. Which grass is the right color?

 

[Luzifer]

(and then there are also thousands of non-calibrated monitors in the world, too ... :o)

 

Not to mention millions of uncalibrated photographs with endless variations of film/sensor spectral sensitivity, different white balance settings and not the least manual or automated image processing to make it "look good".

 

It's an art to make your graphics look good and/or natural (more specifically, to make it be perceived as "natural"). I'm always a bit amused at the suggestion that to make the colours "realistic" you just have to take a photograph and pick the colors out of it. :doh: Also, didn't the devs mention once that they go for the hyperrealism style in graphics?

[Dudester22]

Do I have to say anymore? this gets it about right to prove it can be done.