On my laptop, I loose the edge after 251 and 9, but I'm happy with that result.

Thanks Winny.

On the white I see gradation between 240 to 250, the difference of the central bar, but can't make out any gradation between 254 to 251.

On the black I see difference and gradation between all blocks.

When I got my monitor (LG LED V2420) I spent a good hour calibrating based on these tests - http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/.

All done on the monitor controls, but I have 2 ATI profiles that adjust brightness slightly. One for daytime levels and one for night.

Glo

Many people have gamma and brightness too much cranked up

Good test - thought I had my monitor well calibrated but I had too loosen the Gamma a bit to get down all the way to 5 on the blacks while seeing at least the boundary at 252... I run a Samsung 2233RZ TN panel at home to get the 120Hz and fast gtg for gaming, but I'm sure my IPS at work will see all the boundarys... Hopefully

Some of you have a point, I adjusted the green channel and toned it down a bit and now at least the screen shot looks much better.I'll have to check wop and fsx.

Yes, what on earth does that have to do with my sarcasm?

Ok, I try and stay away from opinions.. But when I get CoD, I'll set it up so it looks like this...ish depends how I feel on that day.



I prefer more contrast and less brigtness because grey blacks make things feel lightweight. That would be the one word I'd use to describe the look of CoD, but that's all it is, a look. It's not something the devs need to fix, it's something the user adjusts to suit taste.

All of this 'the colours are wrong' thing is pointless because you can fix it yourself (if you think it's broke). Just grab a screen shot, open it in windows, open the Graphics properties and mess around with everything till you like it more. Save it, repeat for next game, Simple.

in Multiplayer i don't care about graphics,,,, i'll set my screen to 640x480 like in il-2 if it will help me spot cons from 6k alt

They can use flat photographs of bushes because in WoP one won't really be required to land - indeed, landing is pretty much forbidden in the game.

If CoD only did one little part of England I'd expect huge fidelity. But there's a whole lot more of the world generated in CoD. I hear the mythical land of France (noted on WoP maps as "Here Be Dragons" and "Terra Incognita") are actually in CoD.

Excellent, Winny. Thanks!

Actually the problem is that people have different RGB settings in their browsers. If you use the default settings in Firefox, the images look highly saturated compared to IE or even Chrome. Images will look highly saturated in most Microsoft image viewers. This is why I use Irfanview to look at my graphics I make in Gimp or Photoshop.

There is an easy fix I have posted in the past to fix the RGBs in Firefox.



I didn't elaborate because I figured no one would know what RAW and Light Room were. I didn't imply that a photographer should be a knuckled head and take a picture under Incandescent light with the W/B Florescent setting. However, I do often times use wrong W/B settings and have made some awesome images. I usually do that when I'm not at home to use Photoshop or Light Room or have a small memory card, which isn't good for RAW format



As a 2d/3d artist, I don't know what you mean by "flat photographs." Most games, besides avatar and vehicle skins, use images with Normal/Bump Mapping. Crysis uses something else, which I forget the name of, but its sort of similar.



That's because WoP is a console port. You are never going to see high poly models in current generation consoles. If you tried, you probably blow up your entire house once it tried to render them.

Fozzy - I think Dart is referring to WoP using aerial photography edited with houses/trees where shopping centers are today, i.e. flat photo textures illusion is broken down low (see other thread for links).

Also, since I'm here now the CryEngine 2 form of bumpmapping is the gloriously named 'Polybump' - a clever form of normal mapping.

lul, nugget the trollzor is at it again with his l33t arguments.

This is my last photoshop job, but worth looking at. If you're not bored already.



Light bands are the original, dark have very high contrast, that's all.

Most video cards have colour management, use it to get what you want out of CoD.

It's clearly a good looking game.

Winny I sent you a private message

They can use flat photographs of bushes

Dart may be talking here about the fact that one can take a shot of a bush, or create a 3D model of a bush. Then one can take two images of the bush/3d object, orthogonal/at 90 degrees. Use the alpha channel (transparency property) to have only the bush-structure now in the image. Texture a couple of polygons (at right angles to each other) with the bush images and rely on the user's graphics sub-system to show the 2D sprites as fairly decent-looking 3D bushes (from lots of angles but not from the straight down view, when there are no bushes below, just chickens)

Oleg uses this computerised tomography (as it were) technique to assemble his magnificent forests, which seen from above and from most angles look entirely convincing. Do not try to fly through the trees though because there are no trees. Just a world of hurt

Many modern graphics cards can do object cloning/instantiation and they will need to for lots of bushes or even better, hedges/bocage

Ming

I've been perfectly happy with my colour settings with rof, wop, fsx for the past year but get a few screen shots of CoD and find I need to adjust them. Any chance Oleg and team
" God bless his name don't say it in vain" may actually have had their monitors set up differently during development? I have a few screenshots as my desktop background and have adjusted them to suit.

In Soviet Russia colours saturate you.

From my time as photographer, what I see in CoD shots seems too much contrast. Could be a result of HDR, as is often the case with today's games?

Winny, that shot of the spit looks great! to me, the landscape colours look perfect. However, as you say, it isn't an exact science. Looking at the 109 shot, you have altered the colours of the paintscheme quite dramatically. Although it's way too early to comment, i think that changes like this aren't always going to work. they affect the whole game, and thus can make one area look good, and another look worse. Similarly, the paintscheme of the Spit has been altered, and to me doesn't reflect the colours which I like. Still a great job though. We'll see how it is in a few weeks time.
In the perfect world, we'd be able to adjust the colour/saturation of the lansdscape, sky etc to suit our liking, but of course that is a lot to ask!