Spring RTS Engine

yeh some maps give off to much bloom

Falcrum wrote:Works on GF7800GT well =)
But bloom is too heay for me... It is posible to change this ?

http://www.darkstars.co.uk/downloads/vi ... _BLOOM.lua

there you go, better?

edit : to edit yourself add .txt to the widget and open with standard windows thing, in one of the first lines youll see blur and bloom amount, try tweaking them, blur needs to be really close to 1.0 and id use amount oif bloom 0.8-1.4, try to balance them

Reason is some mappers here */me glares* don't understand how to control the sun (regardless of the fact that I have tried and tried to explain it ).

The majority of my later maps look great, some of the earlier ones when I was first starting out don't look so hot.

It is most definately the mappers fault. Not the shader's fault.

It seems that the quickest way to reduce overbloom is to increase illumThreshold. If the comments are correct, the default turns everything that is at least 50% bright into a glow source O.o.

Evil4Zerggin wrote:It seems that the quickest way to reduce overbloom is to increase illumThreshold. If the comments are correct, the default turns everything that is at least 50% bright into a glow source O.o.

false, its perfect at 0.5 if you make it like 0.55 your 'bloom' will switch bloomed-not bloomed every few secs

But then you get almost no bloom on maps whose creators actually knew what they were doing with sun settings.


hmmm if only there were a way to override the smd with a mod. All it would take is a few lines, you wouldn't need to change the direction or anything...

Forboding Angel wrote:But then you get almost no bloom on maps whose creators actually knew what they were doing with sun settings.


hmmm if only there were a way to override the smd with a mod. All it would take is a few lines, you wouldn't need to change the direction or anything...

i think im just going to rename the widgets so i can use more than one,ill use 3, normal, more bloom, less bloom

Actually, that's really not a bad idea. Too bad it can't be done automagically tho :-/

The default seems to look great on all of my maps that I could think of, except the really really old ones (It took me some time before I understood how the sun worked too). Damn shame that it's tough to change that many smd's.

You should post some teasing pics of bloom on your maps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AWwq7a6Wdc

Actually, that would make for a good map effect, a scorched planet in orbit of a highly active sun. or even a planet thats undergone a major readioactive disaster that stripped off its protective upper layers of atmosphere..

if we could query the map lighting with lua, we could make bloom adjust to the map..

Masure wrote:You should post some teasing pics of bloom on your maps.

Not a bad idea masure. I'll do it when I get home.

We already have this problem without bloom on some of these maps as you can see if you turn on reflections.

One map that springs to mind is sunken outpost. I would say mappers should be more observant of lighting.

also affects skyboxes to much and maps with no white wat so ever seem totally unaffected (my map coldsnap has way to much bloom) this pic of my map hightops has no bloom on the ground but a ton on the units skybox

We also have a huge issue with latest drivers for the 8000 series, if you update it, it just goes pitch black.

i edited my lua config for the bloom shader and got a much nicer subtle result made of epic win

i can upload my version if anyone is intrested all maps seem to look decent

still tinkering some more but some more screens to show difference with and without bloom still working on it to get an overall better look

without


with


an IP free (well core logos need to be removed but 99 percent IP free) screenshot of CA with bloom on amazon river delta



arm roy gets stuck in a puddle

Otherside wrote:i edited my lua config for the bloom shader and got a much nicer subtle result made of epic win

i can upload my version if anyone is intrested all maps seem to look decent

could you upload that version?

Masure wrote:You should post some teasing pics of bloom on your maps.

there you go, its on post 1