Friday Facts #168 - Nightvision Nightmare

[BlueRaja]

Guys, settle down. The pictures are clearly out of order. I think the first and third images are supposed to be swapped.

[mophydeen]

Heat vision would not work because bitters are cold blooded animals.

[bk5115545]

Heat vision would not work because bitters are cold blooded killers.

Fixed.

[mestoris]

How about a simple desaturation filter? Well-lit areas appear as they normally do at night, and dark areas appear just as bright but in grayscale.

[thereaverofdarkness]

How about a simple desaturation filter? Well-lit areas appear as they normally do at night, and dark areas appear just as bright but in grayscale.

I was thinking something like this.


Try leaving the lit areas unfiltered (because that really is best), and then set the unlit areas to a flat color scheme of 0.4/0.6/0.4 so that everything looks like a slightly-darker gray-green.

It'd also be nice if darkness (without night vision) had some visibility, desaturation effects, a slight blue tint, and if the light from light sources would peter out more gradually instead of going straight from half light to zero in the same distance it went from full to half.
Example desaturated color setting for night: 0.06/0.06/0.08

[Metebacsi]

Hi,

I never used nightvision after I found out the ugly green effect, so I'm glad that the devs are taking a step towards fixing the issue.
But I'm sad that the third image was considered the best outcome
The second image with the dark bits being only green seems to be a pleasant middle-ground. Some people mentioned being able to set the color in settings with a hue would be a great addition.
So let the player set the rgb values for it as we are all different in what we see as pleasant. I would go with r:35% g:80% b:35%, but I might change it based on seeing the end result.

Thanks for the good development work!
Cheers,
Mike

[Arucard]

Guys, settle down. The pictures are clearly out of order. I think the first and third images are supposed to be swapped.

Well it's not that clear since he describes the glow transition in the third part which corresponds to the third image. So I have to add my two cents, the idea of the third image is cool, but needs to be toned down. Otherwise I vote on the second, ignore lighted areas and affect dark areas, which is the ideal way making it better than even real life night vision. Either way, I'm sure there will be mods to change it to various preferences, if there aren't already.

[torham]

Ok, I know this is a bit late, but I just watched David Attenborough's Africa, and I immediately thought of factorio. There is a section where they film Rhinos with a new night vision camera, and it just looks like normal day light footage in gray scale. The scene was filmed in complete darkness, with only stars providing the light ( no Moon).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HEUcCj5cLU

This is year 2013 night vision.

[Escadin]

I realize this is late but for what it's worth here is my input on the subject and I REALLY hope you read and consider it! It's pretty important.


The current night vision may look somewhat unpleasant but whatever you did to it in that last picture is far worse than that. It makes me outright sick! The blurry light and high contrast hurts my eyes and I don't feel like I would be phyiscally capable of playing more than 5 minutes with such a night vision without having a seizure or something.

I'm sure you've had some valuable input about the subject by now but whatever you do, don't release it in this state please.


Now, to be a little more constructive here is my take on night vision. I own a cheap night vision scope (cheap but it does it's job pretty well). I clearly remember the most stunning / impressive part about using it the first time was how absolutely cutting-edge sharp everything appears through it.
There is absolutely no difference to plain view in daylight except for the single coloured hue every has.

Perhaps you could create a similar effect if you first added an effect to darkness which blurrs vision more and more the closer an entity is towards total darkness. Then make it so that night vision disables this effect.