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Lighting and textures in .24 vs .23 - vertical light shadows are missing, hc texture quality is reduced and ambient light through the roof

The new ambient light is a terrible idea. We've lost any ability to create 'dark' areas. The 'dark seedy understation' on Utopia is now just an overexposed nightmare. It looks like Todd Howard showed up, told everyone that the dark is scary and now we've just got this permanent dusk at night.
 
Areas that are completely hidden from the sun are no longer dark. No doubt this has ruined countless builds.
 
If you're having trouble with light on planets or underground, fine.. but why bork up the shadows on constructs? Quite honestly, the lighting on the constructs was the best in the game, and now it's just Fortnite. Space is dark.. that's the thing about the absence of light.... it's dark.

This is a completely enclosed room.. where is that light coming from?

The new ambient light is a terrible idea. We've lost any ability to create 'dark' areas. The 'dark seedy understation' on Utopia is now just an overexposed nightmare. It looks like Todd Howard showed up, told everyone that the dark is scary and now we've just got this permanent dusk at night.
 
Areas that are completely hidden from the sun are no longer dark. No doubt this has ruined countless builds.
 
If you're having trouble with light on planets or underground, fine.. but why bork up the shadows on constructs? Quite honestly, the lighting on the constructs was the best in the game, and now it's just Fortnite. Space is dark.. that's the thing about the absence of light.... it's dark.

This is a completely enclosed room.. where is that light coming from?

The new ambient light is a terrible idea. We've lost any ability to create 'dark' areas. The 'dark seedy understation' on Utopia is now just an overexposed nightmare. It looks like Todd Howard showed up, told everyone that the dark is scary and now we've just got this permanent dusk at night.
 
Areas that are completely hidden from the sun are no longer dark. No doubt this has ruined countless builds.
 
If you're having trouble with light on planets or underground, fine.. but why bork up the shadows on constructs? Quite honestly, the lighting on the constructs was the best in the game, and now it's just Fortnite. Space is dark.. that's the thing about the absence of light.... it's dark.

This is a completely enclosed room.. where is that light coming from?

The new ambient light is a terrible idea. We've lost any ability to create 'dark' areas. The 'dark seedy understation' on Utopia is now just an overexposed nightmare. It looks like Todd Howard showed up, told everyone that the dark is scary and now we've just got this permanent dusk at night.
 
Areas that are completely hidden from the sun are no longer dark. No doubt this has ruined countless builds.
 
If you're having trouble with light on planets or underground, fine.. but why bork up the shadows on constructs? Quite honestly, the lighting on the constructs was the best in the game, and now it's just Fortnite. Space is dark.. that's the thing about the absence of light.... it's dark.

The new ambient light is a terrible idea. We've lost any ability to create 'dark' areas. The 'dark seedy understation' on Utopia is now just an overexposed nightmare. It looks like Todd Howard showed up, told everyone that the dark is scary and now we've just got this permanent dusk at night.
 
Areas that are completely hidden from the sun are no longer dark. No doubt this has ruined countless builds.
 
If you're having trouble with light on planets or underground, fine.. but why bork up the shadows on constructs? Quite honestly, the lighting on the constructs was the best in the game, and now it's just Fortnite. Space is dark.. that's the thing about the absence of light.... it's dark.

The new ambient light is a terrible idea. We've lost any ability to create 'dark' areas. The 'dark seedy understation' on Utopia is now just an overexposed nightmare. It looks like Todd Howard showed up, told everyone that the dark is scary and now we've just got this permanent dusk at night.
 
Areas that are completely hidden from the sun are no longer dark. No doubt this has ruined countless builds.
 
If you're having trouble with light on planets or underground, fine.. but why bork up the shadows on constructs? Quite honestly, the lighting on the constructs was the best in the game, and now it's just Fortnite. Space is dark.. that's the thing about the absence of light.... it's dark.

The new ambient light is a terrible idea. We've lost any ability to create 'dark' areas. The 'dark seedy understation' on Utopia is now just an overexposed nightmare. It looks like Todd Howard showed up, told everyone that the dark is scary and now we've just got this permanent dusk at night.
 
Areas that are completely hidden from the sun are no longer dark. No doubt this has ruined countless builds.
 
If you're having trouble with light on planets or underground, fine.. but why bork up the shadows on constructs? Quite honestly, the lighting on the constructs was the best in the game, and now it's just Fortnite. Space is dark.. that's the thing about the absence of light.... it's dark.

This is amazeballs!!!! look at them trees!

This is amazeballs!!!! look at them trees!

Hello Noveans,

The upcoming 0.24 Update includes a plethora of enhancements to elevate the look and playability of Dual Universe. Today, we’re going to take a closer look at two of these: biomes improvements and new voxel features.
 
BIOMES IMPROVEMENTS

In this first phase of a significant, ongoing graphics update, we are improving the biomes of our planets to make them more visually diversified. Combining Speedtree, a procedural generation software, with the Quixel Megascans assets library for the textures and meshes, we now have many new tree models!
 
The Quixel Megascans library also provided many new rock models, which our artist team has then reworked.
 
Moreover, to achieve maximum realism, our ground textures now utilize scans of authentic terrestrial soils. In addition, we have improved the rendering to increase the textures’ visual quality and performances even further.
 

 

Rendered models from our Engine Editor.


These new rock assets will replace all the previous ones and add variety to the environments.
 

 

We have a new night lighting! To offer a better visual by nighttime, the tree models have been calibrated in order to fit the new night lighting.
 

 

All tree and rock assets are placed in the game world using procedural generation spawning.
 

These scans ground textures are the materials from Quixel Megascans used to replace previous ground textures.
 
NEW VOXEL FEATURES

One of the most compelling aspects of Dual Universe is its fully editable world. Through the art of manipulating voxel structures known as voxelmancy, the possibilities for channeling your creativity are endless. Our goal is to provide the players with as many tools as possible to edit voxel shapes, and we want these tools to be user-friendly and efficient.
 
 
The suite of voxel tool shapes is now even sweeter with the addition of the cone shape. Using it is similar to making cylinders. Use the mousewheel to increase the size of the base, and drag up or down to increase or decrease the height.
 
 
The new line tool allows you to select an area using any of the available voxel shapes and then hit the Alt key to delete them. Hopefully, you will now find it less tedious to remove voxels than with the previous system!
 
SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS

Are you looking forward to being surrounded by the luscious new sights and textures of the graphics update? How will the new voxel tools compliment your constructs? Let us know in this discussion thread. ?
 
 

It'll be a temporary warp beacon. Or a front line that needs fighting on. I can't imagine you're gonna be expected to slowboat 3000SU for one fight. 

I've skimmed through this entire thread and it seems you are all so busy complaining about PvP you have all failed to see a glaring Easter egg.. 
 
The attached image is from the Aphelia missions, the target is Thousands of SU away, the value is huge and the mission is to destroy them all. 
 
If I'm not mistaken, this is a hint at future PvE. 

Alrighty, let's talk about today's DevBlog!
 

What do you think of the plans so far? Is this a good starting point or are there additional functions you think wallets will need?

----------WELCOME TO UTOPIA STATION----------
-----brought to you by the Utopia Spacing Guild-----
 
The future of humankind is in the stars, and we present to you the first of many steps to broaden the horizons of all Noveans.
 
The first of it's kind, a 2.6 kilometre long space station right in the middle of the safe zone. Less than 80SU from Alioth, Madis and Thades, this new commercial hub offers free access to the station's Warp Beacon and the future USG Warp Network.
 
Phase 1: The Ring, offers 4 KM of space over 192 medium space cores, ideal for shops, display rooms, factories, storage and offices.
 
Core rentals start from just 1,000,000h a month, equivalent to just 1 week of NQ pocket money. (below prices are incorrect)
 
Visit the station via VR: "Utopia Station Visitors" or request a tour via our associates discord: https://discord.gg/BUm8ceYv78
 

 
 
Phase 2: To begin construction - Central commercial 'high street' core of the station with markets & storage.

 
 



 
*Utopia Station is not affiliated with any political parties or associations and remains neutral in any military conflict.

I moved the Idea Box up in 'ranking' so it now appears right under the Beta Announcements/Updates section.
 
If you would like it higher up, let me know.

Where would you like me to put it? Is General a better place in terms of visibility? More than happy to shuffle it.  

----------WELCOME TO UTOPIA STATION----------
-----brought to you by the Utopia Spacing Guild-----
 
The future of humankind is in the stars, and we present to you the first of many steps to broaden the horizons of all Noveans.
 
The first of it's kind, a 2.6 kilometre long space station right in the middle of the safe zone. Less than 80SU from Alioth, Madis and Thades, this new commercial hub offers free access to the station's Warp Beacon and the future USG Warp Network.
 
Phase 1: The Ring, offers 4 KM of space over 192 medium space cores, ideal for shops, display rooms, factories, storage and offices.
 
Core rentals start from just 1,000,000h a month, equivalent to just 1 week of NQ pocket money. (below prices are incorrect)
 
Visit the station via VR: "Utopia Station Visitors" or request a tour via our associates discord: https://discord.gg/BUm8ceYv78
 

 
 
Phase 2: To begin construction - Central commercial 'high street' core of the station with markets & storage.

 
 



 
*Utopia Station is not affiliated with any political parties or associations and remains neutral in any military conflict.

You know what to do.  Share your thoughts about today's DevBlog here!
 

Don't forget to respond to the call to action at the end: Which do you anticipate doing the most: creating missions, doing missions, or pirating missions?

Why not begin your very own server?  Choose your fave planet and go to town!

----------WELCOME TO UTOPIA STATION----------
-----brought to you by the Utopia Spacing Guild-----
 
The future of humankind is in the stars, and we present to you the first of many steps to broaden the horizons of all Noveans.
 
The first of it's kind, a 2.6 kilometre long space station right in the middle of the safe zone. Less than 80SU from Alioth, Madis and Thades, this new commercial hub offers free access to the station's Warp Beacon and the future USG Warp Network.
 
Phase 1: The Ring, offers 4 KM of space over 192 medium space cores, ideal for shops, display rooms, factories, storage and offices.
 
Core rentals start from just 1,000,000h a month, equivalent to just 1 week of NQ pocket money. (below prices are incorrect)
 
Visit the station via VR: "Utopia Station Visitors" or request a tour via our associates discord: https://discord.gg/BUm8ceYv78
 

 
 
Phase 2: To begin construction - Central commercial 'high street' core of the station with markets & storage.

 
 



 
*Utopia Station is not affiliated with any political parties or associations and remains neutral in any military conflict.

----------WELCOME TO UTOPIA STATION----------
-----brought to you by the Utopia Spacing Guild-----
 
The future of humankind is in the stars, and we present to you the first of many steps to broaden the horizons of all Noveans.
 
The first of it's kind, a 2.6 kilometre long space station right in the middle of the safe zone. Less than 80SU from Alioth, Madis and Thades, this new commercial hub offers free access to the station's Warp Beacon and the future USG Warp Network.
 
Phase 1: The Ring, offers 4 KM of space over 192 medium space cores, ideal for shops, display rooms, factories, storage and offices.
 
Core rentals start from just 1,000,000h a month, equivalent to just 1 week of NQ pocket money. (below prices are incorrect)
 
Visit the station via VR: "Utopia Station Visitors" or request a tour via our associates discord: https://discord.gg/BUm8ceYv78
 

 
 
Phase 2: To begin construction - Central commercial 'high street' core of the station with markets & storage.

 
 



 
*Utopia Station is not affiliated with any political parties or associations and remains neutral in any military conflict.