I’m not saying color grading is a bad thing, but I personally prefer natural lighting in games over “cinematic” filters.

See more examples: https://imgur.com/a/z6zyTo4

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      Yes.

      There is literally no white point reference either, so the altered image is just assumed.

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    I don’t think the original is that bad honestly, but I do install reshade in just about every game I play so I can understand. Bottom picture has too high contrast though and levels need adjusted.

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      It’s a matter of taste. I set the contrast so that the brightest pixel in the scene is 100% white, and the darkest 100% black, so there is the highest possible dynamic range (and nothing is over or underexposed). The vanilla kind of looks like there is mist everywhere since it’s so washed out.

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        You may prefer that contrast but I wouldn’t call it “natural lighting”

        I don’t mean this negatively at all but it reminds me of the photo edits I would make when I first discovered that stuff looks cool if you crush the blacks a bit. That’s not how stuff looks with our eyes but it does look nice

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        But nothing in reality is 100% black except Vanta Black paint. A painter who makes realistic paintings will never use pure black except for mixing.

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          But pc screens cant show pure black either. By using the full range of colors, we have more range to show different shades of black without creating a banding effect.

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        I prefer crushing the whites (a bit of overexposure) than crushing the black. It feels more realistic.

        Do people have differences in how bright they see the worlds colors, I wonder? I know, of personal experience, that colors for a single person can literally look bleaker when one is depressed. And then theres people with better night vision than others.

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    The first one looks natural to me. The second grade looks like a 1st year film school grade where they think the full range has to be used at all times. In a soft well lit room the contrast would never be that high.

    The intention was clearly to make it look like a warm interior, adding all those grungy green tones make it look like she’s standing by a window. I dunno the context of the room, but number 1 looks way better to me…

    Edit: Final thought - crushing blacks like that, from a game perspective means you may miss details that may have been meant to be seen. But power to you! Options are always better.

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      Eyesight is wild, personally the second one looks more realistic to me.

      But you are right, options are always better

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    Lighting mods are always nice after they get good. It’s amazing how drastically lightweight mods can visually transform Bethesda games like New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Skyrim.

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    Fallout New Vegas is only playable with the piss filter disabled (via mods).

    Starfield looks ok, I think the colours add a bit of alien atmosphere.