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New lighting at Starfleet Academy

frtoasterfrtoaster Member Posts: 3,352 Arc User
edited July 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I was on Tribble today, and I noticed that the lighting at Starfleet Academy has changed. The lighting now has a yellowish hue. The San Francisco skyline has changed as well. I'm guessing these changes came from the tutorial map as part of a revamp.

Starfleet Academy: Exterior 1
Starfleet Academy: Exterior 2
I wonder if this new lighting would fix the problem with flickering bottles we had a while ago.

Holodeck ticket 4,431,534: Flickering bottles at Starfleet Academy

The flickering was fixed by changing the bottles at Starfleet Academy from transparent to opaque; the bottles on Risa were changed as well. Is the flickering still an issue with the new lighting? Can the bottles be changed back to transparent without triggering the flickering?

Starfleet Academy: Bottles (Right)
Starfleet Academy: Bottles (Left)
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  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    While it is a bit off-topic, those views remind me how funny it feels to go to the Academy map since it is about where Bug'n Chug was in Defiance :lol:

    That spot seems to be rather popular in sci-fi Terran locations.
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,596 Community Moderator
    phoenixc#0738 wrote: »
    While it is a bit off-topic, those views remind me how funny it feels to go to the Academy map since it is about where Bug'n Chug was in Defiance :lol:

    I played that for a while.
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  • gaevsmangaevsman Member Posts: 3,190 Arc User
    Why there is no shadows in that images?, no AO, no nothing! is that lighting 1??, still works???
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  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    edited April 2022
    gaevsman wrote: »
    Why there is no shadows in that images?, no AO, no nothing! is that lighting 1??, still works???

    You can turn off shadows in the options floater without turning off lighting 2.0, some people with older machines do that to get on DS9 to get better framerates yet still be able to see.
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  • kurtronkurtron Member Posts: 192 Arc User
    keepcalmchiveon wrote: »
    well they closed the test server for now, so who knows.

    That's 'cause people were being unreasonable and doing things like testing on it. :smiley:
  • avoozuulavoozuul Member Posts: 3,215 Arc User
    edited April 2022
    Slightly blue tinted fog makes more sense for distance but not close up, they did make the city in the distance look less realistic in this case.
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  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    avoozuul wrote: »
    Slightly blue tinted fog makes more sense for distance but not close up, they did make the city in the distance look less realistic in this case.

    Distance fog does make sense, but the old one seemed to have almost smog-levels of it, and without fossil fuel burning cars supplying the pollution for that it would have dropped out of the atmosphere long ago from the timeframe of Starfleet. Regular distance haze usually is not that close.
  • spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,374 Arc User
    phoenixc#0738 wrote: »
    avoozuul wrote: »
    Slightly blue tinted fog makes more sense for distance but not close up, they did make the city in the distance look less realistic in this case.

    Distance fog does make sense, but the old one seemed to have almost smog-levels of it, and without fossil fuel burning cars supplying the pollution for that it would have dropped out of the atmosphere long ago from the timeframe of Starfleet. Regular distance haze usually is not that close.

    I have to wonder how much of the IRL haze is dust and other similar particles in the air and how much is simply depth of field caused by our eyes. The blue tint would come from the way air bends the light (it's the same reason the sky is bright blue and not black during the day).
  • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    Depending on where you live, you're pretty much living with a constant haze.​​
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  • spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,374 Arc User
    legendarylycan#5411 wrote: »
    Depending on where you live, you're pretty much living with a constant haze.​​

    Most of the time that's the smog mentioned above which shouldn't be a thing in the 25th century anymore (at least in Trek, who knows if this Planet is even habitable in the IRL 25th Century)
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  • spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,374 Arc User
    Heat and size of the body of water effects the haze as well as I live quite close to the coast of the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Finland to be exact. However the haze isn't as strong here and fogs tend to be rare here.

    Granted it's a lot colder here and the Baltic sea isn't anywhere near as big as the Pacific Ocean.
  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    Looks like they want to actually make the sky above SFA blue, instead of the current overcast/grey look
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  • timelords1701timelords1701 Member Posts: 556 Arc User
    Yeh there does seem to be quite an upgrade in the hues down on starfleet academy, I hope that comes through to holodeck.
    Also while i was in tribble i wanted to see something at the captains table to see if anything may have changed and came across these strange looking NPC placeholders..
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  • strathkinstrathkin Member Posts: 2,666 Bug Hunter
    frtoaster wrote: »
    I was on Tribble today, and I noticed that the lighting at Starfleet Academy has changed. The lighting now has a yellowish hue. The San Francisco skyline has changed as well. I'm guessing these changes came from the tutorial map as part of a revamp.

    Starfleet Academy: Exterior 1
    • buTmpJJ.jpg (Holodeck 04/26/2022)
    • RBwHdKF.jpg (Tribble 04/26/2022)

    Starfleet Academy: Exterior 2
    • QIVWD11.jpg (Holodeck 04/26/2022)
    • xhhWEmd.jpg (Tribble 04/26/2022)

    I wonder if this new lighting would fix the problem with flickering bottles we had a while ago.

    Holodeck ticket 4,431,534: Flickering bottles at Starfleet Academy

    The flickering was fixed by changing the bottles at Starfleet Academy from transparent to opaque; the bottles on Risa were changed as well. Is the flickering still an issue with the new lighting? Can the bottles be changed back to transparent without triggering the flickering?

    Starfleet Academy: Bottles (Right)
    • iuc1pJC.jpg (Holodeck 04/26/2022)
    • rSLjXzO.jpg (Tribble 04/26/2022)

    Starfleet Academy: Bottles (Left)
    • khGFANO.jpg (Holodeck 04/26/2022)
    • 47hxlOC.jpg (Tribble 04/26/2022)

    Made it easier to view with the BBCODE IMG tags inserted by the photo icon. :)
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