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Costumes not the same as dev screenshots

perfectcrypticperfectcryptic Member Posts: 266 Arc User
edited October 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Is it my imagination or something I am doing wrong that can not match the colours/look of the costume screenshots that are posted of all of the costumes? It is really misleading if you can not achieve what is advertised.

http://priorityonepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/TIS_002_04.12.13.jpg

I also have the Vedek costume and can not match the colours to what are in the screenshots. Is it because the dev's are using an unlimited colour palette??
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  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Hmm, I never really noticed or cared to get the colors exactly like what the store screenshots are.

    It's possible the screenshots were spruced up a bit to make them look nice for the store page, and that they do use the same color palettes. Branflakes might know, as he's the one usually doing in-game promotional screenshots and whatnot.
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  • perfectcrypticperfectcryptic Member Posts: 266 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I don't care that much if I get the colours exactly right, just want the costume to look half decent, my temporal jumpsuit looks pants at the moment. The vedek uniform is okay. The screenshot of the temporal jumpsuit I can not get close.

    I realise there is different lighting but the screenshot of the temporal uniform is on ESD and mine looks nothing like that. Just spent a lot of EC on the temporal.. glad it wasn't lobi.
  • tekehdtekehd Member Posts: 2,032 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    perfectcryptic wrote: »
    I don't care that much if I get the colours exactly right, just want the costume to look half decent, my temporal jumpsuit looks pants at the moment. The vedek uniform is okay. The screenshot of the temporal jumpsuit I can not get close.

    I realise there is different lighting but the screenshot of the temporal uniform is on ESD and mine looks nothing like that. Just spent a lot of EC on the temporal.. glad it wasn't lobi.

    Graphics settings can have a big difference too..... the graphics settings used for the screen shots it shows a lot of shadows and details that may be missed if your own graphics aren't (or can't) be set as high.
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Also, lighting plays a part in what colors look like.
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  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited October 2013
    The devs also use the renderscale command to take screenshots.

    Give it a try. /set renderscale 2 essentially makes the game render twice the size it normally does.

    I wouldn't go beyond 2. set it to 1 to get it back to normal.
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  • ufpterrellufpterrell Member Posts: 736 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    From experience there are many differences. For one the TOS romulan uniform is still bugged and uses the wrong colour palette. Also the Vadek off duty uniform has the wrong palette it's impossible to get the orange colour used in the DS9 bundle image and that the NPCs use on Bajor. It's pretty lazy not to fix it boardering on false advertising, if I see something in the store I expect to be able to match it, not just make it somewhat close.

    TOS medical uniforms can't use the same shade of light blue the ones in the Starbase display ones have.
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  • angelphoenix12angelphoenix12 Member Posts: 116 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    to me I have never really cared. They should a few things we cant get. this way they standout.
  • srafaoraspsrafaorasp Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I don't know but most of the time i think it is artist rendering of the uniform you see. but i could be wrong. but if i had to guess that would be my guess.
  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Any officially-released screenshots have had a pass through Photoshop to touch them up.
  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    futurepastnow wrote: »
    Any officially-released screenshots have had a pass through Photoshop to touch them up.

    I doubt it. That would be too much effort and two easy to spot. I'm sure they're just using better computers to render than most people. (This game can look very pretty indeed when on max graphics)
  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99
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         Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    My reading on the 29th century uniforms is that they shouldn't be black anyway.

    Look at any shot of them with Voyager crew. Not only are the 29th century uniforms lighter than the Voyager jumpsuits, they's a bit darker than the Voyager undershirt.

    Actually, the Future's End uniform is black and bright blue. But the Relativity uniform?

    Here's some good reference:

    http://reggi.com/2013/05/21/star-trek-relativity-costume.html

    http://www.tvrage.com/Star_Trek-Voyager/episodes/162978
  • perfectcrypticperfectcryptic Member Posts: 266 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Thanks for the comments. Looks like it was the graphics settings.

    It was the shininess of the under layer on the temporal jumpsuit that was bugging me. Due to my lighting settings it seems. Forgot I lowered them.
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