Level Design Exclude the sky from bloom?

[Murphy]

Hi,
I would like to enable a very soft bloom for my level but it whites out my sky. The sky is more important to me than bloom so given the choice I would opt to turn bloom off completely.

But on the off chance that I can have both, an unbloomed sky and a very bloomy level, let me know how.

 

[LATTEH]

i don't know if this will work, but can't you put a mesh with opacity in front of it? would that make the bloom disappear? i swear i saw this somewhere!

 

[Murphy]

Tried that, predictably doesn't work. I think bloom is applied on the rendered frame, not on textures or anything. So it really doesn't matter if you look through an alpha sheet or not when it comes to bloom.
I remembered reading something like that too though so it was worth a shot. Might have been for the Source engine...

If there is no hidden option or some hack available I guess that's it..

I settled for a compromise now that still softens up the level a bit but still leaves the sky alright.

 

[Ferenos]

Look, I think you can solve this problem by editing the Sky Texture, and decreasing the brightness level to 80% or 90%, so the whites fall to light gray without being affected by the intensity of bloom