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i believe thats the point of coronas, they are supposed to fade out slowly as coronas do in real life, a simple example: try staring into a lightsource for a minute then move your eyes away

although to a certain extent i agree with you: with smaller lights you'd expect them to fade out faster, however  i guesss this is because coronas are very limited in their properties and just about everything in them is predefined.

i think in its current state coronas are quite accurate and simulate fake HDR/bloom effects pretty well.

since we're on the subject of lens effects anyway i was wondering if there would be any way to "fix" the broken/unfinished lens-flare support?

basically all light actors have this variable blensflare that doesn't work (not to confuse with bcorona that DOES work)
it is supposed to create a lensflare that can be defined in the zoneinfo, which contains the other properties of the lens flare;
lensflare-> defines lensflare textures (up to 11)
lensflareoffset-> defines the offset/distance of the individual coronas
lensflarescale-> the scale of the individual coronas

some other ue1 games did have this feature working (wheel of time in particular)

i'll try to get some comparison shots up... later

urhm, turboman, you added a picture in your profile which is in an intranet, i needed to change it because of login messages to enter this intranet, which was pretty annoying because it asked everytime anyone opened a message from you.

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well here is a screenshot from wheel of time, notice that WoT uses the exact same settings as unreal does, meaning it probably works the same, except in WoT it actually appears and in unreal it doesn't 

**edit removed picture because of problems with forums - Smirftsch (saved it before)

to set a lensflare in WoT (or unreal if it worked) you need to do these things: 

***first i advice you to open softwarerenderdevice and set bcoronas to true, so you can see corona effects in UED in realtime preview***

you need to place a zoneinfo and light actor, BOTH MUST BE IN THE SAME ZONE, then open the properties: 


    * under the light actor properties under lighting you must set bcorona and blensflare to true, then under display you must give the light a corona under "skin" found under display (i can't see why the lensflare needs the light to have a corona in the first place, but else it won't appear) 
     
    * then under the zoneinfo properties you must look under lensflare, you have three choices, lensflareoffset, lensflaretexture and lensflarescale, all three offer 11 spaces for a a maximum of 11 textures to be defined. 
     in the screenshots are example of settings i chose in WoT (in WOT i chose lensflareT.utx but in unreal you have to improvise a bit, Genfx.utx has lots of lensflare textures)



also the size of the lensflare effect is not only dependant on the lensflareoffset and lensflarescale, but also on the drawscale of the light actor (as coronas are)

I've noticed that too.  I've also seen that if a monster walks in front of the glare, you can still see the glare no matter how big the monster is (eg Titan walks in front of a torch, I can still see the toch's corona / glare)