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[No Response] Camera Effects setting produces a film grain "bug"

Discussion in '*** Bug Report Archive (After R75) ***' started by krillep95, Jul 15, 2020.

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    1. Title: Camera Effects produces film grain effect
    2. Reproducible?: 100%
    3. Blocker?: I do not know what this is.
    4. Details: Having Camera Effects enabled will make all dark areas look grainy, in some areas it almost looks like a painting filter. I think this stems from whatever the vignetting effect from Camera Effects is.
    5. Steps to Reproduce: Look at any dark areas with Camera Effects enabled.
    6. User Specs: Ryzen 7 3700x, Powercolor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Devil, Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB DDR4 3200 Mhz CL16. Windows 10 64-bit Professional.

      Grain can be seen in the grassy areas near the mountains. Anything the light touches (or shadows produced by light) seem to be "immune" to the grain effect.
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      Extremely visible grain, and again you can see there is no grain around the light sources.
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      And a third one, notice around the table and the trees.
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      Here's two threads from 2017 with the same issue:
      https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/info-needed-grainy-graphics.84615/
      https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/known-camera-effects.90125/

      According to "Attenwood" in the second thread, this is intended - but why? In my opinion, this does not look good in any way, whatsoever, borders on a graphical glitch - and judging from the threads, others agree with this.
     
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    Camera Effects applies ambient occlusion to the scene. Ambient occlusion is simply a darkening of the area where two objects intersect. It has nothing to do with "grain" (of which there is none in your screenshots) or vignetting (darkening around the edges of an image, also not present in your screenshots).
     
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    Did you check the screenshots in full size? Almost looks like my character got smallpox from behind, that's how much grain there is.
     
    krillep95, Jul 15, 2020
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    archived after at least a week of no response.
     
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