Syndicate's over-the-top bloom lighting
quad damage
http://www.gamesradar.com/56-eye-melting-screens-most-hilariously-over-the-top-bloom-lighting-in-video-game-history/
Even gamers complain about the over use of bloom, its the new lense flair.
Even gamers complain about the over use of bloom, its the new lense flair.
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Blooms are almost always a post-process, so by increasing or decreasing your gamma range/option in the menu will affect the bloom a great deal.
It helps stimulate radiosity in a really cheap way.
Your eyes need to focus on light bleeding after waking up or such, so it can be used nicely in certain story cases.
With that out of the way, yeah, I have no fucking idea what the guys with Syndicate were thinking. I mean seriously, is a Clamp and Power function too expensive for the PP? Not to mention light-beams which had more glare then looking directly at the sun...
Since the author of the article clearly does not grasp this subtle yet profound deepness, he clearly is not worthy of playing games of such calibre.
*adjusts hipster glasses*
Someone also took a belt-sander to the player's corneas.
In all sincerity, unless the art director was forced to do this by a higher up, this one's on them. For it to be so consistently overkill like this, it must have been intentional.
Pretty close match:
http://binbin.net/photos/generic/mis/missile-style-toggle-switch-cover-toggle-switch-cover-.jpg
Bloom used to be cool when it was only applied to lights. That's how it was when it first started with Ico and Bridge Commander in 2001-2002... but applying to everything
is
just
argh
can it kill you to make a little buffer to render glowy stuff in for the bloom
Even worse is when bloom is referred to as "HDR" and that excessive bloom is a result of HDR...
And yeah, gotta agree with the Lost Coast comment, that one really shined well.
I wish every engine handled HDR like that demo, it was nice, walking into a tunnel and your "eyes" adjusted as the well lit end of the tunnel became over exposed looking.
Light bloom does happen in real life, at least with my eyes
Most noticeable during nights when looking at those orange coloured street lights.
Shame really ,cause what little texturework we still can see,is looking allright.No idea why they pushed the Post this far.
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How the hell could the get past QA in the first place, I cannot understand. It doesnt look good at all, and you cant see the graphic at all. Another old game which got butchered by lame reboot...
looks like they forgot oops
that looks truely shit
Yep, coming out of that building into the courtyard was epic. the adaptive exposure was great.
So the best and the worst lighting is made in Sweden?
the witcher 2 did a very good job with the hdr and bloom settings imo.
I was refering to lost coast
I saw a recent gameplay video of FarCry and I was amazed at how much it looks like the FarCry instincts predator and how much bloom they have on it. The beach scene especially has so much bloom there you can not actually see the ground textures
man I can't keep up with you kids. :P
The problem is it was, Bloom is old, but people have started using it again with a vengeance.
Problem, many people think Bloom = HDR, but forget HDR is both adaptive to the amount of exposure a Scene has, and is contrasted from there on.
We also had that period of Beehive Pattern being the new Bloom. Even a post-apocalyptic game or two has them!
Chromatic Abberation is another big one we have, but it usually 1 or 2 game using is everywhere instead of everyone in the media.
If you really want to know what we kids all like nowadays, it's Lensflare! All the way from the favela's in Brazil to the centers in Tokyo, LF is the way to go baby!
(nicked from another thread on Polycount)