Night time not pretty enough - Avatar
andrewc
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The day is very beautiful and great to look at from within your base but the night is a bit too dark. Its just a black window from within base.
Even in the shallows the bio-luminescence is too low.
Something I noticed is that the light from existing luminescent is not reflecting onto the ground/water around the plant/animal. Would be awesome if flora and fauna would be closer to the movie Avatar.
My wish would be that a flashlight is not required while swimming through the shallows at night. Even the moons lighting coming through the water could be increased...
Last screen shot is of a Unity light reflection demo which should be implemented?
See below some screenshots:
Day time screenshot

Night time:

Night time in Shallows with Full moon

Avatar - PANDORA night time

Having a play around myself with lighting this looks 100% better to me:
Upped the Contrast and also lightened up around glowing objects. Also lightened surfaces that the moon light would brighten naturally...

Unity Graphics engine light reflection demo

Even in the shallows the bio-luminescence is too low.
Something I noticed is that the light from existing luminescent is not reflecting onto the ground/water around the plant/animal. Would be awesome if flora and fauna would be closer to the movie Avatar.
My wish would be that a flashlight is not required while swimming through the shallows at night. Even the moons lighting coming through the water could be increased...
Last screen shot is of a Unity light reflection demo which should be implemented?
See below some screenshots:
Day time screenshot

Night time:

Night time in Shallows with Full moon

Avatar - PANDORA night time

Having a play around myself with lighting this looks 100% better to me:
Upped the Contrast and also lightened up around glowing objects. Also lightened surfaces that the moon light would brighten naturally...

Unity Graphics engine light reflection demo

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Also just throwing out some crazy filters on Subnautica, I dunno looks wierd
Cool idea with editing a photo yourself, i did my own improvements.. check my original post...
Well to be fair, I did overdo it "a bit", but a post processing injector might indeed do the trick to make it suit your taste. Hmm a more realistic water tint could be achieved with that as well...