[2020] Clear Vision Update

UPDATE: We have just deployed a which will temporarily revert the new jump animation that was added in today’s Clear Vision update. We will do more work on the feature to address concerns about the jump cloak timer starting before the animation has completed. Please restart your launcher to receive the update and then any running clients.

Greetings,

Today with our Clear Vision update, New Eden just got more beautiful! Please use this thread to discuss the graphical changes introduced with in the patch.

We have just deployed a patch which will temporarily revert the new jump animation that was added in today’s Clear Vision update. We will do more work on the feature to address concerns about the jump cloak timer starting before the animation has completed. Please restart your launcher to receive the update and then any running clients.

The new jump animations do look fantastic and they will return! However the the issue with the jump cloak timer was not intended and can have a significant effect on gameplay in certain circumstances. We need to address that.

The zoom on the planet is supposed to be showing what bad sharpening looks like

…to illustrate the type of issue that can occur when sharpening is applied incorrectly. There is artifacting at the edge of the planet, the gradient has lost its smoothness and the surface of the planet is starting to look too pixelated.

There was a problem with the moon image in the devblog. It seemed that the dimensions / zoom went a bit wrong. We’ve replaced it with a better version. Thanks for flagging it

Hi
Thanks for flagging.
I’ve just tested with and without CAS, and it’s very similar with it disabled:

I’d love to see higher resolution textures in the future

Hey sorry, only just noticed this. We’re actively working on making the world news more prominent on our website.