Simviation Forum - Polygon effect?

Dec 8^th, 2009 at 6:00pm

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How come, on generally older games, you tend to get this polygon sort of look if you're panning near the sun?

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Reply #1 - Dec 9^th, 2009 at 7:57am

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Rich H wrote on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 6:00pm:

How come, on generally older games, you tend to get this polygon sort of look if you're panning near the sun?

I get it on my FS2004 also - when looking into the sun , or near, as you said. Dont know why. But here on SimV is a few very clever ~~guys~~ ~~chaps~~ persons that knows the answer Wink

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Reply #2 - Dec 11^th, 2009 at 11:03am

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Polygon is a deceased Parrot....a dead Parrot....A Parrot which is no more... Roll Eyes

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Reply #3 - Dec 11^th, 2009 at 12:21pm

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Fozzer wrote on Dec 11^th, 2009 at 11:03am:

Polygon is a deceased Parrot....a dead Parrot....A Parrot which is no more... Roll Eyes

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Paul....Pretty Polly.... Cool

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Reply #4 - Dec 11^th, 2009 at 5:05pm

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Are you talking about a lens flare?

I believe it is typically in older games just to be an impressive feature. Through the development of games everyone was trying new things... So a lot of games had lens flare. Basically, if a new effect came out, everyone would try to encorporate it. If that didn't happen, games would still look like Pong. More recently, the effect has been improved and bloom seems to have taken over a bit. They've realised what is more realistic (as lens flare doesn't really happen through your eyes, but rather through things such as camera lenses)

Atleast, that is my thoughts about it, but I'm not entirely sure what you are referring to. My guess is just trying to keep up to date, at the time, and using the effects available.

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Reply #5 - Dec 11^th, 2009 at 6:18pm

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machineman9 wrote on Dec 11^th, 2009 at 5:05pm:

Are you talking about a lens flare?

I believe it is typically in older games just to be an impressive feature. Through the development of games everyone was trying new things... So a lot of games had lens flare. Basically, if a new effect came out, everyone would try to encorporate it. If that didn't happen, games would still look like Pong. More recently, the effect has been improved and bloom seems to have taken over a bit. They've realised what is more realistic (as lens flare doesn't really happen through your eyes, but rather through things such as camera lenses)

Atleast, that is my thoughts about it, but I'm not entirely sure what you are referring to. My guess is just trying to keep up to date, at the time, and using the effects available.

Ah that makes sense.
This picture made me think about it. And I've seen it on a few computer simulations. http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1260224208

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