Housing graphics update

[StrangeSkirt]

I was neutral about the other graphics updates when I first logged in yesterday. Then I entered my house... The lighting changes in player houses looks absolutely terrible, to the point that I no longer enjoy even being in the house I spent a year designing.

It's the harsh shadows and textures you mentioned, eapecially on textured partitons and wallpapers... but worse. There is an overall hazy look to everything. The best way I can describe it is that it looks like a vacuum bag exploded in the room and everything is covered in dust. This is especially bad in my bright (lighting 5) medium, where half my walls and furnishings are dyed pure white.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I had that same feeling when I visited my house for the first time after the update went live

I think that after the patch many furniture items are missing certain material qualities that they used to have. Especially metal-like qualities, which might lead to everything feeling like it is covered with dust, as you described. For example, originally the Gaol Partitions, which are supposed to be made out of metal, used to be very shiny, you could even see highlights around individual rivets in the texture. However now it looks more like a painted-over wood surface, it's just not as shiny as before and contains barely any highlights. Similarly, a lot of other furniture items look very washed out as well, with metal parts not providing any highlights.