Visual Upgrade Poll

Added an important clarification below.

Let me start with a bit of a background. I’ve been talking to other devs lately, and jealously comparing the visuals of our games at the same time.

I got some coaching from a certain person. And a couple of suggestions from another.

And then I got this.

Scene 1.

My base “realistic” lighting setup, the primary light comes from a set direction depending on the time of day. This is a morning scene, and the sun on the other side of the house:

Adjusted “pretty” lighting setup. Screw the sun direction, this looks better:

New set of postFX. Shiny:

Added some decor that wasn’t there before:

Scene 2.

“Realistic” lighting, basic postFX:

“Pretty” lighting:

+ updated postFX:

+ new decor items:

Now, an important caveat. If you think the visual improvements are worth it, I’m going to only enable them for the new scenes. Same with the new decor elements. All the new scenes will feature the new furniture and stuff, and I'll update the navigation screens, but the old scenes will remain barren.

We will keep remastering the older scenes, so eventually the whole game will look like this. IF we are doing this. I’m not sure. It looks better. But it’s going to be another case of older scenes looking drastically worse when compared to the new ones. I don’t know. Pls vote.

The poll is multi-choice if you are fine with whatever. If the previews are too small, there's an album on Imgur - https://imgur.com/a/ojLdO6L

Important clarification: the new postfx stack and the prettier lighting won't slow down the content delivery much, if any. The new decor is going to take a few days to sort out, but it's a one-time thing.

So the question is more, do you like the new look, and if you do, are you alright with it only appearing in the new scenes for the time being?