- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: jim5
the chiefs visor is polarized, which will make lens flares. at the same time it will reduce light saturation, so lens flares are realistic for this situation
Man, you have got to be kidding me! I have polarized sunglasses, and let me check... nope, no lens flare.
Look, for all of you that think that lens flares are realistic, you are fooling yourselves. Lens flares *ONLY* occur in compound glass lenses (i.e. cameras, video recorders, etc.) A compund lens means that there are multiple glass lenses.
Polarizing cuts down on the angles that light that passes through the lens, and would actually minimize lens flaring... but that's a moot point because a visor is not a lens, it's a visor. It doesn't work like a lens, nor does it effect light like a lens.
You have never seen a lens flare out of your own unaided eye. You have never seen one through sunglasses or visors of any type. You should not see them in first person video games unless you are playing a robot with cameras for eyes.