Shadows missing

[bprice]

In the latest update of OR, the terrain seems to be much darker than before and the effect of shadows is missing. Are there new settings that need to be adjusted. Adjusting the illumination seems to brighten the objects while the terrain remains dark.

The first shot is from X2930 and the second is X2903.

Thanks
Basil

[muskokaandtahoe]

Fiddling w/ the balance of light and shadow is an ever on-going exercise in OR -- the computer is VASTLY inadequate to match real world lighting and so there is constant fiddling trying to find the sweet spot that works in all situations. The latest change is intended to improve the shadows on distant terrain (including DM) and it has done that very well. OTOH it has also had the effect of darkening near terrain in the mid to late afternoon.

Only very recently has the OR team had access to formulas to calculate how much sunlight hits the earth at any given hour of the day for any given latitude and date. I expect they will be used to guide in-game brightness and that should help, but I suspect there will always be something lacking given it's just a PC trying to do 24 hours of lighting. No ETA AFAIK.

[seagoon]

Basil, you can tweak the brightness of the ambient lighting slightly by going into the "Options" facility in the OR main menu.