What is Depth of Field?

[mytai01]

What is Depth of Field in the options settings? What does it do?

[RoflSeal]

It makes your screen looks as though you smeared Vaseline all over it.

[NineLine]

 

Images you are focused on are sharp, ones that you arent focused on are blurred. In the case of the sime though, its basically the center of the screen is your focal point.

 

 

[GeorgeLKMT]

Exactly what it says. It focuses on the selected object in F2 external view while blurring the rest.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field

 

[dburne]

And it also royally kills your framerate in external view.

 

Nice feature for the movie makers though...

[Mustang]

And it also royally kills your framerate in external view.

 

Not if you make a swift edit to DOF.fx shader file (#define NUMBER 50.0)

[GeorgeLKMT]

But it should be noted that decrasing the number reduces the effect strength.

[dburne]

Not if you make a swift edit to DOF.fx shader file (#define NUMBER 50.0)

 

Thanks for the tip Mustang, I will have to give that a try!

[dburne]

Not if you make a swift edit to DOF.fx shader file (#define NUMBER 50.0)

 

Ok I gave it a try, yes certainly the frame-rates were better in external view with it set to 50 versus 150. I still had a little hit with it, but no where near as bad as it was with 150.

 

Can't really decide if I like the effect yet, I have a feeling it is probably more realistic looking, might take me a little getting used to.

 

Can you elaborate on the difference, between BOKEH and SIMPLE?

 

Thanks,

[mytai01]

I have decided that this is a purely Hollywood effect. Your own eyes will do this for you. Just stare at the center of the screen! Don't the surrounding features already look blurry in your peripheral vision?

[Necroscope]

I have decided that this is a purely Hollywood effect. Your own eyes will do this for you. Just stare at the center of the screen! Don't the surrounding features already look blurry in your peripheral vision?

 

Hollywood effects is the way modern people learn world they live in.

[kobac]

No one answered the dburne question, so I once again asked to clarify us what is the difference, between BOKEH and SIMPLE depth of field?

[DayGlow]

Different style of DOF blur. Simple dof just blurs while Bokeh blur has a circular shape to it

 

 

2. Is Bokeh

 

3. Is a simple blur

[kobac]

Thanks for the nice explanation DayGlow. :thumbup:

[KoN]

Thank you DCS looks awesome .

[javelina1]

Different style of DOF blur. Simple dof just blurs while Bokeh blur has a circular shape to it

 

 

2. Is Bokeh

 

3. Is a simple blur

 

thank you! this was the most simple, and yet the most effective answer I've seen. :thumbup:

[Emmy]

Wrong interpretation of "Bokeh"

 

Bokeh is a Japanese word* which applies to the quality of the areas that are out of focus. Not the amount of blur, shape of blur or even the fact that anything is out of focus. It's a 100% subjective quality related to how "pleasing" the oof areas are to the viewer.

 

(* We apply the term Bokeh in photography but being that it's Japanese, it's less of a scientific, quantifiable thing and more of a qualitative feel or personal interpretation.)

Edited December 18, 2017 by Emmy

[Reticuli]

Intended for capturing still frames and movies, not for actually using the sim. The less efficient bokeh setting is more like real optics.

[pallfy]

Not if you make a swift edit to DOF.fx shader file (#define NUMBER 50.0)

 

This worked well.

Changing the value from 150.0 to 50.0 and my gpu usage went from ~95% to ~65%

So I raised it back up to 100.0, now gpu load is ~80%

Edited January 10, 2020 by pallfy