[2020] Friday Facts #358 - Alien decoratives & Polluted water

Originally posted by CorrettoSambuca

The polluted water is really genius.

Pollution really has no effect on game appearance right now; the decaying trees are barely noticeable anyways and they typically get cleared out soonish anyway. Having that green dirty water near your powerplants will surely make a difference.

One small gripe I always had with the game is that there's no incentive in playing "green"; even in deathworld the solution is not less pollution but more firepower.

Krastorio, with its air filtering, actually gave me enough of an excuse to go green that for the first time in my life I had efficiency modules in beacons - not to save power (beacons eat too much of that) but to save pollution.

Originally posted by Pike_27

I don't really like the look of the polluted water. The difference is too stark. We don't ever put waste on it, our pollution is only on air, so there is no reason for such a drastic change to happen. If only we had some kind of subproduct we had to get rid of...

Will there be a way to turn this effect off, besides pollution itself? I really hate how it looks, and I would rather not have to look at my world with such a difference.

Edit: I would not mind if it was a subtle change. It is way too drastic, the contrast is horrible right now.

Originally posted by morhp

I love it, but I would prefer some other color for polluted water. The green doesn't look quite right, it looks either like algae (which are a sign of pollution, but mostly pollution with nutrients like fertilizer or manure) or like comic-radioactivity.

I think it would look better if it were more on the gray/brown/black side and not as extreme. Maybe like this. (Left side is clean, right side is polluted.)

Originally posted by Misha_Vozduh

Is something like in this picture (fff 340) still planned? The current version doesn't look like that at all and tbh I'm having trouble telling hat's new/different on that pic.

Originally posted by motdidr

considering they're using the pollution value in order to do the interpolation it should be dynamic based on the pollution's value.

Originally posted by Hanakocz

Do I get it right that the water going green is just graphical thing, while the tile is technically still same? So with pollution disappearing, water turns back to normal?

Originally posted by youtheone1

Haha I only just realised that v453000 is actually a dev. Before I had no idea what it meant in fff