heyas

i had reported long ago before the last ezquake stable was released
that bloom was not working right, and was "flickering" or "flashing" when i moved around

well, after messing with my setup today, i found that the cvar "r_bloom_alpha" effects this

now, im not sure if this is a bug in ezquake itself or possibly with my hardware, as it was not fixed in 1.9 when it was released
im wondering if anyone else sees this when r_bloom is on with r_bloom_alpha set to 0.5 or higher

Yeah the effect kinda "lives" when you move around, it's not really a bug.

seriously? i cant stand it, it moves to much
im going to play with it some more and see if i can make it somewhat better

i notice less flickering basically by diminishing the effect , r_bloom_intensity 0.3 ; r_bloom_alpha 0.3

i tried that out, but i still notice it alot
bloom rocks, but not like this.

alright! i have a solution to the problem. the problem is actually the cvar r_bloom_sample_size
im thinking that somewhere down the line, the default for this setting was set to 32

this setting is waaaay too low. and in the 1.9 release of ezquake, the default value was changed to 256 which is perfect

so, no more flickering

EDIT: ahh this setting always reverts back to 32 no matter what. it seems there really is a bug after all

in my setup it's always at 256

well thats odd, i wonder why it always does this to me
ill have to ask one of the ezquake guys