Blooming Heck!

[todayshorse]

Greetings fellow screenshot fans!

So here we go looking at 'bloom' after Daube pointed me in the direction of just which version to use after the one i downloaded messed up my FSX...

Tried various settings, as it came - which was a bit too much, 'Nick N's' settings which i found far too bland and didnt really change anything other than slightly darken the screen a tad, and finally this version of settings which i found on-line somewhere. I'm pretty impressed!

Figured out the key combinations on my imac keyboard so this is the first time i've actually got this working..

Anyway, check it

Bloom OFF

Bloom ON

Bloom OFF

Bloom ON

Impressed? I certainly am

C+C Welcomed, and thanks for looking

[Fozzer]

I've got it running on my FS 2004 (Caps + F12 to switch it on and off).
It certainly brightens up my ground scenery nicely, and the blue sky, bit it does rather "wash-out" the detail of my clouds (a bit too aggressive!).
I only do day flights, so it would be nice to get a setting which just brightens up my day-time scenery textures...I need lots of Summer Sunshine!

Paul.... ...!

[todayshorse]

So yours brightens things? Hmmm i find mine darkens things ever so slightly, but these shots are from a 'dawn' setting.

It was the aircraft i was interested in seeing with it active, it adds a certain somthing, that makes them look like proper objects rather than flat pixel things i think. I wasnt really after that real 'soft' look ive seen elsewhere though.

Im curious to see the effects during various daylight settings (i dont fly at night either, i dont see the point!)  8-)

[Daube]

Fantastic comparison shots !! The first couple are especially impressive, if you ask me.
Concerning the darkening etc... one would have to take a look into the ColorCorrection (I think) section of the enbseries.ini. There are one or two parameters in there which have explicit names, like "darkening_amount_day" or something close to that. These can get negative values too, to make everything brighter instead of darker, and vice-versa.

Todayshorse, glad to see you're enjoying the bloom. Now, try to get into a dark-cockpit plane, and set the time to dawn or dusk. See the colors!

[Flying Trucker]

Thanks for the comparisons...Bloom certainly does make a difference...

[Fozzer]

[quote]So yours brightens things? Hmmm I find mine darkens things ever so slightly, but these shots are from a 'dawn' setting.

It was the aircraft i was interested in seeing with it active, it adds a certain something, that makes them look like proper objects rather than flat pixel things i think. I wasn't really after that real 'soft' look I've seen elsewhere though.

I'm curious to see the effects during various daylight settings (i don't fly at night either, I don't see the point!)