#MASS EFFECT FILM GRAIN MOVIE#

Usually it's used for adding godawful tonemapping to Skyrim. There are little tools for some games that can inject various shader.stuff into the render pipeline through voodoo I don't pretend to understand. It drives me nuts when I can't individually disable post process effects because so many games look fantastic except for one effect that's just stupid, like the odd posterization in shadows in Far Cry 3. So basically I agree that the game badly needs some additional sliders. One of the magical parts of game development is that users are extremely unlikely to have the exact same hardware as devs, which is precisely why games have had gamma correction sliders since forever. I haven't tried playing MWO at work, but it wouldn't surprise me if film grain would be invisible on the second monitor, but SUPER annoying on the first. The other has terrible contrast, to the point where I couldn't tell that some of the icons in an app I work on had broken transparency and ugly white backgrounds. One has weird, blown out contrast that makes some bright colors indistinguishable. It has really accurate colors, and the grain doesn't really bother me, whereas the grain in Mass Effect bugged the hell out of me on my old monitor.

For example, at home I have a Dell Ultrasharp with an IPS display. Some monitors have different degrees of color accuracy, better or worse contrast, more linear brightness, etc. Personally the only game where i liked the film grain effect was Call of Cthutlhu: Dark corners of Earth If with DX11 we get the option to remove it i'll be happy but it's not something who bothers me much. I for one run a 2560x1080 monitor and it's just annoying ( mostly i dislike it) since i like high defined surfa es and a clear view ( example it annoys me notice it in forest colony but on the other side the snowstorm in fozen city it's ok) I'm not advocating a slippery slope argument or anything, but this looks to be an artistic decision, not a gameplay one, and I'd like to play in their pond, not one where everything is fullbright locked and all the tricks are removed to make things look 'clean.' the film grain in MWO isn't terrible, and is intended to give everything a more gritty tangible feel, its removal would reinforce the artificiality of the game world. In this day and age where film is dying the look provided by grain may no longer be needed, but other tricks will still be used to create the 'cinematic effect.' Motion blur, simulates the effect of a 24FPS film reel, etc. The use of artificial sharpening settings or dramatically altering contrast may make things 'look' better, but in fact alter the original image away from the designers intent.

For this reason film grain has been used to create a 'Cinematic' experience in games for some time now. Grain could still be detected in high lighting conditions if a slower speed of film was used. The grain became more apparent as a film was shot in low light because of the required exposure times. Film grain is a relic from an era when movies were shot on film, and the grains of silver on a given piece of film could be detected by the naked eye. The film grain in MWO pales in comparison to the film grain in Mass Effect. It wouldn't surprise me if DOF were used to conceal the lack of detail in the most extreme distant LOD levels, or possibly the transition from 3D model to billboard.ДЄs an aside, I wonder what monitors some of the people who find MWO's grain really obnoxious are using, and how many are using sharpness adjustments (which will make any high-frequency detail look awful) Really, there needs to be a slider to adjust the amount of grain, and it needs to default at a fairly low setting. This is the same reason you sometimes see people complain about HDR lighting and talk about how it should go away completely, not realizing it's used in literally every recent reasonably graphically sophisticated game. It can be frustrating to talk about because lots of people don't realize how common it is, thinking the games that do it wrong are the only ones using it. Thing is it's one of those effects where when it's done right you don't consciously notice it unless you're specifically looking for it, like with vignetting and bloom. I see film grain effects in games serving the same purpose, in addition to sometimes being used specifically to make a game look like a movie.

#MASS EFFECT FILM GRAIN MOVIE#

Perlin Noise was originally developed for the movie Tron to add some noise to otherwise too-smooth CG surfaces, making them more believable.

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