Housing graphics update

[Merton9999]

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.

I play on PS5 and adjusted every setting I could but nothing helped. The closest I could get to getting rid of the haze was upping the gamma setting, which I have never had to adjust before. Increasing to max helps a little in the house but it's way too bright everywhere else, and certainly does not look good in the other rooms I've done with dark lighting. I also tried adjusting PS5 screen output settings such as RGB amd HDR but nothing made a difference to this.

There are additional color problems between objects. For example, I have a white partiton next to an open partition, both pure white. The open partition is several shades darker than the white partition now.

Pure white leather sofas look dirty grey now, with a nasty pixelated texture along the bottom border of the couch.

The mog station gold walls now look like yellow rust instead of smooth, shiny gold. They look absolutely nothing like they do on the mog station image.

The bottom line for me at the moment is that all 8 of the various rooms I've done look so ugly to me now that I never want to enter them again. Player housing used to be the most enjoyable part of the game to me and for the last day I've just been trying to ignore it completely. I was hoping it was a PS5 issue that I could change or a pending update to older zones or something I just had to wait for, but it seems over the last few days there are several posts about this.

[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.

[Merton9999]

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.

You're exactly right. The metal floor looks like cardboard now. Same with white marble. The overall lighting haze is the biggest issue, but the individual furnishing textures are wrong too. Most items in my rooms have become flat, dusty and/or pixelated.

Or colors have been completely changed. It is no longer possible for me to find any color that looks the same on a white partition as it does on an open partition, so combining them in the same room would be impossible.

I've been reading that the graphic update hasn't been applied to most old gear at this time and was wondering if the same applies to housing furnishings?

I'm really hoping that this is unintentional. I can't stomach housing at the moment due to the lighting and texture problems. The rest of the game looks beautiful to me with the update. The worst part is that I've probably spent around $300 on cash shop items (mostly white dye and gold walls) and none of them work as intended now. I never would have considered buying them if I knew they would end up looking like they do now.