Bloom effect seems to be related to what color format is used

[latent estuary]

I'm making a small game with a more retro feel but still want bloom and stuff, with the color format I want to use the bloom effect is barely noticeable, ideally I would want to keep the bad looking color format but keep the bloom effect at its intensity, possible?

thank you in advance.

[bold mango]

Color formats that are HDR capable, meaning they support color values outside of 0 to 1 range, are required to not lose the HDR color information of the material

[latent estuary]

ah

[bold mango]

Not sure what type of "bad looking" you mean, but all those can be recreated with a post processing shader or a shader applied to the RT

[latent estuary]

with this one you dont have enough colors to fully display some distances

which the flashlight reveals

i like that look

[bold mango]

Limited color depth like that can be recreated with a shader that rounds color values to increments, or "posterization"

LUT post processing can also do it, but I'm not sure if it's considerably easier than a custom shader

[latent estuary]

hey! wanted to give an update.
just got it working and the results are better than i could imagine, thank you so much.

if anybody's curious here's the shadergraph i came up with after watching a couple of videos

first make the graph
then the material

then add a render feature to your current renderer settings with it applied

[bold mango]

also the math of posterization is very simple
Multiply by steps, round, divide by steps
So you can easily customize it for different varieties of posterization