Excessively Bright Spell/Combat Effects

teflons7 · May 2017

Am I the only one who has had things get much brighter since the last mod? I dunno what happened, but it looks like Midnight Rok'n'Bowl threw up all over my screen. :P Especially in Master Spellplague. At times I can hardly see a thing in any given combat, let alone what my own character is doing. I really enjoy how the game looks and would hate to have to start turning off stuff, but on the other hand I'd love suggestions others may have

forumnamesuxs · May 2017

You should be able to make some changes in gfx settings for this issue.
"Bloom intensity" or something like that perhaps?

teflons7 · May 2017

None of the settings does much of anything to help. I'm honestly incredibly surprised I haven't seen more complaints about this. It is absolutely ridiculous. And it's made even worse in the Spellplague dungeon somehow. I don't know what sort of filter or effect or what they have going on in there, but it's literally blinding; I CANNOT see a thing that is going on in the entirety of my party or own toon.

beckylunatic · May 2017

Original Spellplague always gave me performance issues and the inability to see doodlypoop and the solution for my case was turning max physical debris particles way down. Honestly, I don't find that setting even has a significant impact on how the game looks.

I had debris turned a good way down after the 11b build that reset everything, but Siege PE with the floating ash was a slideshow so I dialed it down to 50 and it's seemed fine since then.

dragoness10 · May 2017

I had to turn down the Shading to Low so I'd stop seeing certain banners and furniture with a "floating particles in structure" effect.

That may help.

strathkin · May 2017

At time's I find the UI slow to refresh when first logging into a toon. I open professions or others and sometimes it takes a while for the graphics window to fully populate which never used to happen... at times I also notice an excessive amount of whiteness to many graphical effects that look horrible. Other times however it's not present at all and seems to mostly display fine???

teflons7 · May 2017

No, it's not quite the same as the gfx issues that occur from texture streaming and loading in. It's almost like the Bloom effect got turned WAY up. Like the brightness and saturation on spell/power/combat effects went up almost. I put Bloom Quality to Off (only option is on or off) and it seemed to help a bit. I also don't like that it's so inconsistent. I.E. much worse in mSP than anywhere else. Their whole current obsession with neon colors seems to have gone a bit overboard, IMO.

teflons7 · May 2017

beckylunatic said:
Original Spellplague always gave me performance issues and the inability to see doodlypoop and the solution for my case was turning max physical debris particles way down. Honestly, I don't find that setting even has a significant impact on how the game looks.

I had debris turned a good way down after the 11b build that reset everything, but Siege PE with the floating ash was a slideshow so I dialed it down to 50 and it's seemed fine since then.

I turned the physics debris setting down and, while it didn't do anything for the overall brightness, it helped with performance a bit; thanks!

Excessively Bright Spell/Combat Effects

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