Bright Halo Effect

[Sheriff88]

I'm seeing this glow on skins usually around cross as shown in picture. Also see it around fuselage band.

Gamma Corrections setting at .9 or 1.0 .

What graphics adjustment is need to eliminate the glowing halo effect?

[Bilbo_Baggins]

6 hours ago, Sheriff88 said:

I'm seeing this glow on skins usually around cross as shown in picture. Also see it around fuselage band.

Gamma Corrections setting at .9 or 1.0 .

What graphics adjustment is need to eliminate the glowing halo effect?

 

This game has an abysmal bloom effect implemented by default. Fortunately there is a way to disable it in your game files. 

 

Go to your config file in game directory and open it with notepad, look for bloom and set it to 0. The game will look much better but bear in mind, every time you change any gfx options you will need to reopen this file and change bloom again.

 

Regards

 

Edited July 26, 2019 by Bilbo_Baggins

[Stoopy]

Holy Cow I've been wondering if there was a way to turn that off - thank you both!

 

[Bilbo_Baggins]

4 hours ago, Stoopy said:

Holy Cow I've been wondering if there was a way to turn that off - thank you both!

 

 

Many are wondering the same thing for some time now. Godawful bloom like this should surely be set to off by default? I don't know why the devs don't sort it out or just get rid of it.

 

Sort it out please devs!

Edited July 26, 2019 by Bilbo_Baggins

[PicksKing]

This blooming seems to be connected to HDR by default. So you also can deactivate HDR and its gone. Without changing any config files.

 

7 hours ago, Bilbo_Baggins said:

Go to your config file in game directory and open it with notepad, look for bloom and set it to 0. The game will look much better but bear in mind, every time you change any gfx options you will need to reopen this file and change bloom again.

 

Which config file do you mean? I only know the gpresets.cfg in "[...]\data\luaScript". There is a line "post_bloom_enable=true" but I guess a "0" instead of a "false" would break this file.

Edited July 26, 2019 by PicksKing

[Obelix]

And you had to do this (bloom = 0 ) after each update....

[Bilbo_Baggins]

1 hour ago, PicksKing said:

This blooming seems to be connected to HDR by default. So you also can deactivate HDR and its gone. Without changing any config files.

 

 

Which config file do you mean? I only know the gpresets.cfg in "[...]\data\luaScript". There is a line "post_bloom_enable=true" but I guess a "0" instead of a "false" would break this file.

 

Sorry, I meant the 'startup.cfg' config file in the 'data' directory.

 

If you deactivate HDR, that awful bloom is still there. You can have HDR on and the bloom off at the same time. Have to to into the cfg file to disable it.

 

Regards 

Edited July 26, 2019 by Bilbo_Baggins

[Sheriff88]

Thanks for all your input. HDR Off got rid of bloom. Looks like it eliminated most of a cloud flicker I was getting also.

[Stoopy]

Agreed, I had an hour to kill this morning so I took the revamped Fw190 A-3 out for a spin on the Kuban map to admire its new 4k glory and I could not get over how good everything else looks now with this change.  

 

It's like I was flying with a light coating of oil on my contact lenses before this change.

 

 

Edited July 26, 2019 by Stoopy

[JimmySolarium_VR]

you can have HDR without bloom. Just put HDR=1 and Bloom=0 in the startup.cfg, just make sure you set the file to write protected after you made the change.

[Bilbo_Baggins]

3 hours ago, JimmySolarium said:

you can have HDR without bloom. Just put HDR=1 and Bloom=0 in the startup.cfg, just make sure you set the file to write protected after you made the change.

 

Set the file to write protected and we don’t have to keep turning bloom off? Will definitely try that, thank you. 

Edited July 26, 2019 by Bilbo_Baggins

[jasta11ace]

How do you set file as write protected? I did a normal "save" after the change.

 

[Stoopy]

Assuming you are using the windows file manager to view the folder where the file is:

 

Right click on it, go to Properties, and in the Attributes section at the bottom of the dialogue box, check "Read-only", then select "Apply" and "OK" (Apply is redundant but considered good form).

 

 

Edited July 29, 2019 by Stoopy

[jasta11ace]

Thanks, Stoopy.

[Stoopy]

3 hours ago, Rekt said:

 

We really should start calling him Smarty, amirite?

 

There ya have it - another example of how the innernet can skew your perception of reality ? Plus the nurses might start expecting me to empty my own drool cup!