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zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
This question is about special effects.

Do you prefer Film Grain or Lens Flare?
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Would you Rather have... 56 votes

Film Grain
44% 25 votes
Lens Flare
55% 31 votes
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  • neos472neos472 Member Posts: 580 Arc User
    why not both where both are needed appropriately
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  • scarlingscarling Member Posts: 708 Arc User
    How about starting with some HD textures.
  • saedeithsaedeith Member Posts: 628 Arc User
    Both.
  • sharpie65sharpie65 Member Posts: 679 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    Both is good, however lens flare is more of a modern day "issue" whereas film grain is there for technicolor "authenticity"..both have their drawbacks, but their appropriate eras wouldn't look right without them.
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  • thekodanarmada#7342 thekodanarmada Member Posts: 1,631 Arc User
    :lens flare: Boo for anonymous results. :lens flare:
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 59,174 Community Moderator
    I wouldn't mind either one, but preferably as an option.
    Film Grain was optional in Aliens: Colonial Marines, and I turned that off.
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    This should be a checkbox poll so we can pick both if we want to.​​
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  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,409 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    Borg eye-laser in my own eye would be more preferable.
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  • thekodanarmada#7342 thekodanarmada Member Posts: 1,631 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    This should be a checkbox poll so we can pick both if we want to.​​

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  • lazarus51166lazarus51166 Member Posts: 646 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    I wouldn't mind either one, but preferably as an option.
    Film Grain was optional in Aliens: Colonial Marines, and I turned that off.

    Film grain was the least of that games problems
  • jahnkjahnk Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    I prefer Mayfair
  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    edited June 2016
    film grain... the quicker headache inducer. yes, for me its worse than lens flare
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    take the film grain over the lens flare anyday, especially the overpowering kind.

    OP: how does this topic fit into STO directly though?
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  • cidjackcidjack Member Posts: 2,017 Arc User
    Meh
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  • sarreoussarreous Member Posts: 336 Arc User
    Lens flare, considering that I didn't really notice them in the movie the first time around.
  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    This should be a checkbox poll so we can pick both if we want to.​​
    Yeah. You're probably right. Suddenly I feel like Colbert when he used to ask his guest the - great president or greatest president - question. :/

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  • ssbn655ssbn655 Member Posts: 1,894 Arc User
    Lens flares are an easy out to hide shoddy work. Even JJ Abrhams admits that was a huge mistake. Film grain in this game? Why? It only made sense adding it with the DS9 Episode Tribbles and Tribulations to blend the new footage and old together.
  • nikephorusnikephorus Member Posts: 2,744 Arc User
    LENS FLARES! OMG what is going on? Seriously though they could have both depending on the content.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    MY optical sensors are already calibrated to compensate for lens flare :p
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  • r5e4w3q2r5e4w3q2 Member Posts: 341 Arc User
    Film Flare? Or maybe Lens Grain!
    Lens Grain almost sounds like a real thing.​​
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    BOTH...

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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    Neither.
  • tessaravejgantessaravejgan Member Posts: 276
    I went with film grain since there is no neither as an option but honestly as long as its OPTIONAL I don't care if both are in a game.
  • trejgontrejgon Member Posts: 323 Arc User
    meanwhile I'm here wondering what the heck "film grain" is supposed to mean....

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  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 7,058 Arc User
    Lens flare can make for some cool screenshots, film grain makes me want to punch my screen.
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  • freightstopperfreightstopper Member Posts: 232 Arc User
    Poll was missing the 'neither' option so could not vote ;)

    Why neither?

    Because they both make it hard to see who's trying to shoot / throw things that will hurt at me and I need to see them to be able to dodge.
  • dareaudareau Member Posts: 2,390 Arc User
    trejgon wrote: »
    meanwhile I'm here wondering what the heck "film grain" is supposed to mean....

    Something about how the "textures" of the older film weren't perfect, so images on them are subject to a hazy or "grainy" appearance, especially once digitally transferred or transmitted in high def...

    To look "retro", anything that's supposed to have been "filmed" in that period would, now-a-days, be subject to a process to introduce an "artificial film grain" effect to the images. The TOS episodes are going to be rendered with a "film grain" effect on...
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