We are going to ship first stage of Future is Bright project. This will come with HDR and physically “more correct” render pipeline. There is completely new way of computing neon and bloom, which is more stable, looks nicer and allows for wider glow. There also will be (drum roll) glowing neon all the way down to the lowest quality, it will have lower quality visuals,of course, but will be quite similar to the full one.
So now we want your input on this:
Neon and bloom effects will now be completely coupled and you won’t get one without the other. Take it as a trade off of a new technology and better pipeline. What we would like to know is that if you guys want to have an ability to turn off the neon&bloom effect completely or not. Meaning: without bloom instance, you wont get any neon and bloom effect
Neon & bloom are always on with a “standard” config, and can be tuned with BloomEffect (i.e neon glow & bloom cannot be turned off).
Neon & bloom are only on when BloomEffect is enabled (i.e off by default, on with an enabled BloomEffect ).
Neon & bloom are always on with a “standard” config and can be tuned with BloomEffect , and can be turned off by disabling BloomEffect (i.e opposite of B – on by default, off with a disabled BloomEffect ).
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To not only tease you guys with words, here is a video:
I do like how this looks and it most likely will come in handy for my train game since it uses neon-lit windows that automatically turn on at night; but with the current lighting settings in it, they look a bit too bright and the glow is overly intense.
As for the poll, I didn’t vote yet because I’m still kinda confused on what it exactly means (even after watching the video).
You might have to reformat the poll options or give an explanation of the consequences of each poll entry, I’ve read this through a few times now and I’m still not entirely sure myself.
If it is “always on”, where would you toggle its intensity if there is no Bloom effect instance? Would it have 0 intensity but still be “on”? Would you always have bloom in the game if there is no effect instance?
Preferably, yes, I would like an option to turn both off entirely and not have any bloom effects at all (at the cost of no neon effects either). I would probably not want there to be any bloom if I don’t have an explicit bloom effect instance. I don’t know what poll option best corresponds with this, but I assume “Neon&Bloom only with Bloom Effect inserted under lighting”.
Not sure which option to pick to let us disable place-wide bloom (hate it, along with motion blur, film grain, etc) but have specific neon instances be glowy
If you read OP you would find that this will now be linked to bloom, so the bloom slider becomes the “neon intensity slider”. The two will be linked, so no separate neon intensity slider is possible anymore. Increasing bloom means increasing neon intensity and vice versa.
Wouldn’t it be possible to have both separately? Or does the engine not handle that? This may cause problems. I don’t want to be dependant on bloom in order to gain that neon effect.
Edit: Oh hang on, I’m being stupid haha. Bloom is not equal to blur. Whoops. Never mind
but bloom caused by the sun looks pretty awful. The following video only goes up to 0.2 intensity – past that, especially at 1, it’s substantially worse:
@ConvexRumbler I strongly dislike how (by first impression from the video) black neon parts no longer glow. Many developers use black neon parts for their darker glow
I also hate the effect that bloom has on my game. I would like to have glowing neon without the effects of a bloom object…
At face value, this trade off is not remotely worth it
Just checking if I correctly understand the poll options:
A) Neon & bloom are always on with a “standard” config, and can be tuned with BloomEffect (i.e neon glow & bloom cannot be turned off).
B) Neon & bloom are only on when BloomEffect is enabled (i.e off by default, on with an enabled BloomEffect).
C) Neon & bloom are always on with a “standard” config and can be tuned with BloomEffect, and can be turned off by disabling BloomEffect (i.e opposite of B – on by default, off with a disabled BloomEffect).
Have to agree with some others on this one. I personally heavily dislike bloom, and being coupled with neon is certainly a disadvantage unless you’re able to adjust the bloom out.
Not every game style asks for Bloom. Please give us more options to stylize our games on how we want to. Isn’t that the goal anyway?
