[Raven2001]

I usually have my bloom set somewhat high (200). However, at this level, the backgrounds and beams loose a lot of definition and over-expose, so to speak.

Is there any way that I can turn off or tone down the bloom effect only for the BG's and Beam weaponry?

[pecenipicek]

no

[General Battuta]

Postprocessing is sort of an orphaned feature right now. We would love to, for example, get control over skybox bloom, but it isn't in the cards.

[The E]

To elaborate, Bloom and other post-processing effects are applied on the entire framebuffer. There is currently no way to exclude objects from processing.

[Raven2001]

Allrighty, thanks for the heads up on this

Any plans to make it so in the future?

[General Battuta]

Not unless we get a coder who knows how to work with PP.

[Raven2001]

Ok, thanks a lot for the info

[DaBrain]

Just to answer the question, it should be possible to exclude the background from the bloom.

However we would have to use a different shader for the background.


Think of it as a mask. Some elements are added to the mask others aren't.

[The E]

Which would require a rewrite of the shader system to separate background rendering from foreground objects.

Now, one thing I have been thinking about would be to extend the shader pipeline in order to do multiple rendering passes (that is, separate lighting/texture/post passes). But I have just been reading the necessary documentation for two days, so don't get your hopes up.

[DaBrain]

From what I understand you can have the shaders write into a frame buffer, which can be used for the area the bloom will be applied to and simply don't have the shader from the backgrount not write into the buffer.



... then again I'm not a coder, so don't rely on what I say.

[The E]

Well, as Taylor just said elsewhere, it's not going to happen anytime soon anyway due to performance considerations.