Is there any way/setting to get rid of all these little blue lights?

lianthelia

When I warp into other systems they disappear and I think it looks so much better without them....is there any ways to get rid of all these glowing tips on the S31 ships permanently?

protoneous

That blue glow looks amazingly nice

rattler2

Not to my knowledge. Admittedly though I don't have any of the S31 ships (Unless you count a Vengeance but that's Kelvin Timeline) so I don't know if some of the Vanity Shields have an affect on the blue running lights.

phoenixc

The ships in the show have those blue lights, they just don't smear like that (which STO seems to be using to show direction of motion instead of using the warp and impulse drive lines like they do with most other ships):

tribbulater

I don't have any tips for ship cosmetics because I rarely fiddle with mine. I think the only ship I enjoyed changing was the forcefield bubble on the Horizon/Olympus class. So of course they removed that and replaced it with some kind of glass mesh insect barrier or something. Because yeah, you don't want bugs slamming into your windscreen at warp speed, I guess.

However, from the graphics side of things, you could try fiddling with things like Post-processing, Bloom, Lighting sources, things like that and see if any of them make a difference. Normally I trim 5 or 6 likely options at a time, then turn each of them back on one by one to see if it makes a difference to the final view.

lianthelia

phoenixc#0738 wrote: »

The ships in the show have those blue lights, they just don't smear like that (which STO seems to be using to show direction of motion instead of using the warp and impulse drive lines like they do with most other ships):

But those are subtle, if they were more like that in game I'd be fine but these things are as bright as signal lamps almost

Be happy if they were even toned down, but yeah also like I said sometimes they don't even appear and it just looks better

crm14916

The stupid lights around the saucer of the Discovery bother me more than those blue lights do... No matter what vanity shield I put on it, they are always there and they never change color...

leemwatson

crm14916 wrote: »

The stupid lights around the saucer of the Discovery bother me more than those blue lights do... No matter what vanity shield I put on it, they are always there and they never change color...

Actually, the more annoy aspect of those types of lights is that they are all visible through the ship no matter the angle you look at them.

rattler2

I forgot the Crossfield has em too... kinda don't even pay attention to those lights anymore.

spiritborn

I'm guessing those lights are suppose to represent the hazy lens flare DSC had since STO has somewhat limited lighting system.

phoenixc

True, it would go with the whole idiotic "space fog" idea that Abrams is so fond of.

The TOS idea of the viewscreens showing a sensor-eye view of the ships (essentially amplified to make the starlight from every direction work like a photographic lighting box) instead of an actual optical one made a whole lot more sense to anyone who actually understands that there is no significant atmosphere in space so there no significant light scattering.