standard shader and flickering HDR bloom

So is there any way around this issue?

The one I mean is if you have have high reflection and high smoothness on a material it creates a strobe light of flickering highlights with HDR bloom on.

If you shut off HDR just on the bloom script the blinking goes away, but then you get low quality bloom.

update: thankfully user makeshiftwings has created a solution script and shader I found here:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/bloom-pop-under-hdr.281656/#post-1956674

 

Use Tonemapping on your camera, just make sure it's above Bloom.

 

That works too although I don't really like using it since I can't get it to not look hazy. I suppose that could be countered with even more post effects though.

 

Unity gonna provide a new Glow/Bloom effect in future release. It fixed all the HDR/PBL glow shimmering/flickering artifact, still on WIP phase...

 

I found another solution in a different thread where someone created a max luminance clamp script that you can apply before your Bloom effect. Works much better than Tonemapping. http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/bloom-pop-under-hdr.281656/

 

Wait, don't you want the bloom to pick up the very high HDR values and bloom them greater? Isn't that the purpose of HDR? If you clamp the brightness, you're not getting any of that HDR data. It sounds like the shimmering effect may be a separate issue with the bloom effect.

 

Well I think it is a photo-realistic concept (I actually witnessed the strobing effect on a swimming pool being hit by the sun the other day in real life) BUT it's just one of those things that is different when you're using gaming like a stage where the audience has to look directly at it. In real life you just turn your head and body easily to avoid uncomfortable aspects of light (or wear sunglasses), in gaming nobody really wants to play a game where they're concerned with turning their character away from lights

 

you can use the technique based on this to reduce that

 

The flickering is much more noticeable in Unity than in the "real world", because in Unity the highlights that cause it are so small that they can literally exist "between" pixels. When the highlight hits a rendered pixel the bloom flickers. When the camera is moving this flicker is only visible for a single frame creating a strobe effect that is extremely distracting and looks like an error. If it was just always present it might look like a normal bloom effect.

 

Old thread I know but I'm still having this problem with the post processing stack V2 on emissive materials. If you're still around, any idea what this fix ended up being?