Comment on [OC] I think the first mod I'll be installing / making will be one that removes the Instagram-esque filter Bethesda has chosen to apply everywhere

JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• apinanaivot@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a matter of taste. I set the contrast so that the brightest pixel in the scene is 100% white, and the darkest 100% black, so there is the highest possible dynamic range. The vanilla kind of looks like there is mist everywhere since it’s so washed out.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You may prefer that contrast but I wouldn’t call it “natural lighting”

    I don’t mean this negatively at all but it reminds me of the photo edits I would make when I first discovered that stuff looks cool if you crush the blacks a bit. That’s not how stuff looks with our eyes but it does look nice

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  • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But nothing in reality is 100% black except Vanta Black paint. A painter who makes realistic paintings will never paint pure black.

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    • emptyother@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But pc screens cant show pure black either. By using the full range of colors, we have more range to show different shades of black without creating a banding effect.

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      • Graylitic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        OLEDs can get damn close.

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  • emptyother@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I prefer crushing the whites (a bit of overexposure) than crushing the black. It feels more realistic.

    Do people have differences in how bright they see the worlds colors, I wonder? I know, of personal experience, that colors for a single person can literally look bleaker when one is depressed. And then theres people with better night vision than others.

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