[torc]

ok, i have installed the nighty builds, but really, i can't see the differences... can you make some screenshot just to see how post processing effect works?

[Jeff Vader]

can you make some screenshot just to see how post processing effect works?

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=25406.msg1327434#msg1327434

[The E]

You need to start it with -post_process enabled, and you need to add -bloom x (or -bloom_factor x, I don't know exactly), with x being a number between 0 and 160 in the custom flags field. I recommend starting with 160 and going down based on your personal preference.

The other post-processing effects need to be enabled in FRED by a mission designer, IIRC.

[Dragon]

Hery (the one who implemented it) put it that way:

Bloom is enabled by default.
Probably the effect is too slight so you don't notice it. Run FSO with flag -bloom_intensity 160 (or even higher but then some artifacts may occur). That should make bloom much more visible.

I'm running 160 and it works fine.
Other effects have to be enebled eithr in mission or in table, but it takes more work.

[torc]

-bloom_factor 160 or bloom_intensity 160?

[The E]

bloom_intensity

[torc]

ok, now bloom effect work really fine! thanks guys! now it's time for motion blur!  do you know if someone are working on it?

[Commander Zane]

It was tried before but was either far too laggy or too bugged to continue, unfortunately you won't be able to find that.

[torc]

is a script problem? you think motion blur in freespace never see the light of the day? 

[Vip]

Actually, with the constant manoeuvres and crazy turns and whatnot, I think that motion blur would be only confusing in FS2. I mean, even now the background gets slightly fuzzy when you turn your fighter, and gives me a real headache. With motion blur, I probably wouldn't be even capable of playing it. Besides, what's so great about motion blur ? It ain't even realistic.

[Commander Zane]

Ever look out the window of a car that's going 70mph with a nearby treeline? The trees look like green lines as you go past them, so I'd say it's pretty realistic at range.

[Killer Whale]

not if you single out a tree and watch it as it goes zooming past, like singling out a dragon

[Commander Zane]

There's that padlock target whatever-it's-called key that puts your eyepoint to whatever you're targeting so if a toggle could be made to disable the effect while using the tracking lock then you'd have that.
Either way that's getting it fairly close to what actually does happen.

[torc]

well, in any case if someone doesn't like motion blur effect,can disabilitate it anytime he want, anyway, if you play crysis, seems like motion blur effect works very good in fastest game sessions too...

[Dragon]

I'd like to see motion blur in FS2_Open.

[Rodo]

I don't understand the people that keep saying motion blur ,bloom and all those other fancy effects are not a good idea or "make them dizzy", all modern games have those functions, how is it that you play modern era games then? or you don't?.

[Dragon]

It should possible to disable some (if not all) of those features in most games, though most likely not because people may not like them, but for the sake of preformance on weaker computers.

[pecenipicek]

i was one of the testers for the motion blur originally, before hery abandoned... the effect was... odd to say the least. wasnt as laggy as i tought it might be, but it was still... unsettling...

here are some screenshots, ingame you dont notice it that much but on screenshots its quite visible.

(note, these are probably the only screenshots of it around and these screens also include the "monitor" effect (scanlines), bloom and possibly "film grain")

[Dragon]

Well, OK.
The first screen looks just weird,I assume that it's the one on which motion blur in most visible.
This is unrealistic and doesn't look good, so I think that it's not a problem that we don't have such motion blur now.
But I think that somebody should implement proper blur.

[pecenipicek]

the problem is the actual implementation. ingame it doesnt even look half-bad. screenies make the situation worse than it is.

now, implementing a shader which worked with those "instanced" steps of rendering, and averaging the blur across, would make that implementation of blur a bit better, even tho its still ways off from "true" motion blur...