Modding Discussion REQUEST: Better Night Lighting

Hi, I really enjoy the art of this beautiful game, but there's something not quite right about the night colors.
I believe that it applies an overall color correction on the whole image. The problem is, the colors at night are really saturated and contrasted. They should be desaturated and blueish just like in the last image (Photoshop)

Is there a way to edit the values applied to the color correction?

Thanks!


DAY LIGHT


NIGHT LIGHT


CORRECT NIGHT LIGHT

 

This is to do with the games ambientLight and eveningColor scaling factor.
In UpdateGameClock(), the game checks if it's "starting to get dark" or "truly dark", and applies a scaling factor based on that, first, then it modifies outDoorLight based on ambientLight or eveningColor, depending on if it's raining or not.

tidbits here,
for truly dark:

Code:

if (Game1.timeOfDay >= Game1.getTrulyDarkTime())
            {
                int num = (int)((float)(Game1.timeOfDay - Game1.timeOfDay % 100) + (float)(Game1.timeOfDay % 100 / 10) * 16.66f);
                float scale = Math.Min(0.93f, 0.75f + ((float)(num - Game1.getTrulyDarkTime()) + (float)Game1.gameTimeInterval / 7000f * 16.6f) * 0.000625f);
                Game1.outdoorLight = (Game1.isRaining ? Game1.ambientLight : Game1.eveningColor) * scale;
            }

for evening:

Code:

    else if (Game1.timeOfDay >= Game1.getStartingToGetDarkTime())
            {
                int num2 = (int)((float)(Game1.timeOfDay - Game1.timeOfDay % 100) + (float)(Game1.timeOfDay % 100 / 10) * 16.66f);
                float scale2 = Math.Min(0.93f, 0.3f + ((float)(num2 - Game1.getStartingToGetDarkTime()) + (float)Game1.gameTimeInterval / 7000f * 16.6f) * 0.00225f);
                Game1.outdoorLight = (Game1.isRaining ? Game1.ambientLight : Game1.eveningColor) * scale2;
            }

An SMAPI mod that changes the eveningColor based on the season like the game itself does would probably be a quick fix, winter looks alright, but could be a tinge darker or so, it uses these values for the RGB:

Code:

Game1.eveningColor = new Color(245, 225, 170);

 

soooo can this be made a fix or mod?

 

lol, also I agree.

@OP
The last image you photo-shopped looks great and as it should be btw.

 

This should be moddable with SMAPI yes, unfortunately I am a bit to busy to make such a mod atm, but I will add it to my "mod ideas" list for when I have time

 

You, are amazing!

 

I have been looking at messing with this, and unfortunately, it seems that with the current limitations, there is no easy way to do better then CA is already doing >_<
I will keep looking into it, since if I manage to finaggle a fiddly bit about how XNA works, I can do some proper post-processing on the world rather then the hack-job that CA made out of it, either cause he didnt know any better or got lazy after 4 years of finaggling himself...


Edit: I managed to finaggle it, then XNA chose to screw me over, so yeah, turns out this is majorly difficult to even try

 

Aww haha, well at least now we know

 

Hoping this thread can be revived and bump the mod idea? The colors for night really are muddy and hurt my eyes. Would love to see a blue saturated night instead of what currently happens.