Friday 2011-01-28 Dev. update and Discussion

If you want to see some horrible HDR, go play the original Brothers in Arms. It seemed that everyone's skin produced light instead of absorbing and reflecting it. Sort of like how people portray angels in movies. Glowing skin with light blooms all around them. Now days they've toned it down quite a bit, but I think that Oleg probably has a better system that that "cut and paste" effect.

[The Kraken]

Yes I remember how after the Lost Coast tech demo for Half Life 2 (which was actually quite well done) many developers went crazy with HDR & bloom. Results were often unbearable, but they could at least claim to use the latest and greatest technology. And for many people that seems to count more than the actual result.