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

lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,914 Arc User
edited January 2 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
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?


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  • protoneousprotoneous Member Posts: 3,278 Arc User
    That blue glow looks amazingly nice :smile:
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 59,012 Community Moderator
    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.
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
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  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
    phoenixc#0738
         Member Posts: 6,013 Arc User
    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):
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  • tribbulatertribbulater Member Posts: 307 Arc User
    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.
  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,914 Arc User
    edited December 2024
    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):
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    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
  • crm14916crm14916 Member Posts: 1,540 Arc User
    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...
    "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science." - Edwin Hubble
  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,574 Arc User
    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.
    "You don't want to patrol!? You don't want to escort!? You don't want to defend the Federation's Starbases!? Then why are you flying my Starships!? If you were a Klingon you'd be killed on the spot, but lucky for you.....you WERE in Starfleet. Let's see how New Zealand Penal Colony suits you." Adm A. Necheyev.
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 59,012 Community Moderator
    I forgot the Crossfield has em too... kinda don't even pay attention to those lights anymore.
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
    The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
    normal text = me speaking as fellow formite
    colored text = mod mode
  • spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,424 Arc User
    I'm guessing those lights are suppose to represent the hazy lens flare DSC had since STO has somewhat limited lighting system.
  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
    phoenixc#0738
         Member Posts: 6,013 Arc User
    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.
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