Light sources have shimmering godray (annoying)

[Rejlive]

I never noticed this before, but is there away to get rid of this?

I turned bloom almost all the way down but it didnt affect it.

Hope this isnt something added on purpose, its immersion breaking for me

 

I saw it in Crucible of omens BCD

 

I have Windows 10, 4790k I7, GTX 980, 16GB Ram latest drivers all

[SteveL]

That's a particle effect added (yes, on purpose) by the map designers to indicate a murky damp atmosphere. It's not bloom. Afaik, the only way to turn it off is to set r_skipParticles via the console, but doing that would also remove weather and torch flames, so not really a possibility.

[Spooks]

The way this effect works is there is an emitter that shoots down particles really fast to simulate a godray. Unfortunately it does produce shimmering as you said, but it's the only way to fake volumetric light currently. The mapper can make the particles shoot out faster to hide the shimmering but that usually tanks the FPS.

[nbohr1more]

There are options to remove the particle effect. If it's just a targeted entity then remove the target arg from the base entity in the map file. If it's part of an entity def, make your own replacement def. Finally, if you aren't inclined to learn some entity arg basics, you could edit the map in Dark Radiant and remove the light entity with the problematic particle then replace it with a light entity without one.

[Rejlive]

Thanks, it would look better if the surrounding area was actually murky and damp. If im going to learn how to remove stuff i might as well learn to be a mapper.

Other than that i really enjoy this map, and look forward to many more.

[Melan]

If im going to learn how to remove stuff i might as well learn to be a mapper.

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