Infestation is UGLY, when will there be a graphical update to infestation? (FOR THE LOVE OF GOD)

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  • .trixX..trixX. Budapest Join Date: 2007-10-11 Member: 62605Members
    jrgn wrote: »
    ChrisStark wrote: »
    Kouji_San wrote: »
    Alright, made another nostalgia mod. The downside is that in order to use it, servers need to run it... The infestation material is protected by consistency checks

    ?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside|268:268&composite-to=*,*|268:268&background-color=black

    For anyone who wants to see this ingame its currently online on Wooza's Playground.

    Oh you mean the guy who organized bad reviews on ns2 on steam to promote his own servers?

    No, the guy who got pissed off after spending a lot of effort and money to build up a community around ns2large. And at time, those reviews were kinda valid. Im glad UWE reverted the browser tabs.
  • RevanCoranaRevanCorana Join Date: 2015-08-14 Member: 207125Members
    edited February 2018
    BeigeAlert wrote: »
    It's just super super difficult to make something like infestation look good AND run smoothly.

    o rly?

    https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=205856132
    https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=118075981

    no imo its just a weird looking texture with a strong vivid color that pops out a lot because it is completely unmatched with the rest of the games color palette
    (should be darker, less vibrant or purple, purple looks really great)

  • killer monkeykiller monkey Join Date: 2010-02-26 Member: 70743Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    BeigeAlert wrote: »
    It's just super super difficult to make something like infestation look good AND run smoothly.

    o rly?

    https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=205856132
    https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=118075981

    no imo its just a weird looking texture with a strong vivid color that pops out a lot because it is completely unmatched with the rest of the games color palette
    (should be darker, less vibrant or purple, purple looks really great)

    That organic one looks so much better than default holy crap
  • Soylent_greenSoylent_green Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11220Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    What made NS1 infestation look better is a combination of being lovingly placed by the mapper, not covering 100% of surfaces (pre-NS 2.0 infestation textures were made by baking a transparent texture to your texture and compressing it to 8 bit indexed palette), looking more diffuse and mold-like rather than coated in slime/vegetable oil.
  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    edited February 2018
    BeigeAlert wrote: »
    It's just super super difficult to make something like infestation look good AND run smoothly.

    o rly?

    https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=205856132
    https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=118075981

    no imo its just a weird looking texture with a strong vivid color that pops out a lot because it is completely unmatched with the rest of the games color palette
    (should be darker, less vibrant or purple, purple looks really great)

    That organic one looks so much better than default holy crap

    TBH I actually prefer the look of those over my nostalgia mod. Mine was a tribute to the oldschool infestation with higher contrasting green, pinks and orange. However @L34D's Organic-Infestation seems to fit better into NS2's aesthetics...


    The issue with infestation is still that is doesn't properly align to some surfaces, so you still end up with those weird vertical lines... And it also doesn't look... 3D enough?
  • RevanCoranaRevanCorana Join Date: 2015-08-14 Member: 207125Members
    In reality, the default texture looks rather good, even great... IF you play with all settings on MAX... which no one does EVER.
    For example if you look at promotional NS2 screenshots infestation looks good.

    BUT when you play with all settings on medium/low like 99% of people do the texture becomes aweful. As if its properties makes it NEED the bloom, ambient occlusion, etc in order to look as intended. While on the other hand textures like organic and swarm somehow manage to look decent regardless of graphical setting.
  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    edited February 2018
    @RevanCorana it's simply too green for my taste :tongue:

    But in any case, NS2 could definitely benefit from a more sophisticated anti-aliasing (FXAA blurs everything), some color correction and contrast/gamma settings...
  • NintendowsNintendows Join Date: 2016-11-07 Member: 223716Members, Squad Five Blue
    Kouji_San wrote: »
    @RevanCorana it's simply too green for my taste :tongue:

    But in any case, NS2 could definitely benefit from a more sophisticated anti-aliasing (FXAA blurs everything), some color correction and contrast/gamma settings...

    It has had gamma settings for a while...
  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    Nintendows wrote: »
    Kouji_San wrote: »
    @RevanCorana it's simply too green for my taste :tongue:

    But in any case, NS2 could definitely benefit from a more sophisticated anti-aliasing (FXAA blurs everything), some color correction and contrast/gamma settings...

    It has had gamma settings for a while...

    I'm sorry, I didn't know! You're talking to someone who is only here in spirit (on team spectator) :tongue:
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