Bloom effect must go!

falcon409

falcon409

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I get that the bloom effect is cool for "Glamour Shots" of your airplane, but it looks ridiculous for real world operations. Every time I load my current flight, I have this surreal "glow" or haze over everything. How do I get rid of it so things look realistic and not washed out?
 
Well, after checking the cfg file, I found an entry for Bloom=2 (for which there is no specific setting in the setup in the sim). . .I set that to "0" and it lessened it somewhat, but it was still noticeable. The only way, it appears, to eliminate that effect is turn off HDR lighting. After doing so, I'm beginning to wonder what the big deal is about that particular setting. I still have cockpit shadowing, which I thought was part of that and ground shadows and cloud shadows also appear unaffected, so until I'm flying and realize that something I saw before suddenly isn't there any more I'm going to go with this rememdy. . .HDR=Off.
 
The HDR will impact the colors and the lighting of the picture on the screen, creating more "vibrance", kind of.
It is sometimes a bit exagerated, but most of the times it reproduces quite well the darkness in the cockpit after looking outside thought the windows. Sometimes I even wish the effect was stronger... When I'm in a liner and I watch the surrounding clouds (without sun glasses), and then I watch back the inside of the plane, I can barely see anything for a few seconds. The HDR is supposed to reproduce that to a certain level...
 
Daube said:
The HDR will impact the colors and the lighting of the picture on the screen, creating more "vibrance", kind of.
It is sometimes a bit exagerated, but most of the times it reproduces quite well the darkness in the cockpit after looking outside thought the windows. Sometimes I even wish the effect was stronger... When I'm in a liner and I watch the surrounding clouds (without sun glasses), and then I watch back the inside of the plane, I can barely see anything for a few seconds. The HDR is supposed to reproduce that to a certain level...
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Thanks Daube, I can do without that to get rid of the Bloom effect.
 
Turned off HDR lighting and that bloom effect is gone. I agree that the interior cockpit effect that replicates your eyes getting used to the darkness after looking around the outside is pretty cool. It's just a shame that they decided to tie the bloom effect directly into the HDR settings rather than making it a separate effect on it's own that can be adjusted to suit.
 
To be honest, I thought that bloom effect was supposed to be adjustable.... at least through the Prepar3D.cfg...
I was surprised to read that your modification bloom=0 had no effect...

One question: after performing that modification, did you try to regenerate the shaders of the sim ?
 
users\yourname\AppData\Local\LockheedMartin\Prepar3dV2\Shaders

Delete the entire folder "Shaders"

When you restart P3D, be patient as the screen will start out black and then the image will appear, most likely with some flashes. Some objects may load slowly at first but they will load! I find that it takes a couple of times starting P3D to completely rebuild the shaders.

Lyn
 
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