Turning off depth of field

[Unus Offa Unus Nex]

There really should be an option to turn off depth of field ingame, it is not only hurting performance the game also looks worse with it enabled.

I say this because I tried turning off Depth of Field in the ROEngine.ini file yesterday after I learned you could actually do this and it could improve performance, and sure enough it did, by up to 20 fps.

 

[Qweets]

you kidding me? the game looks worse with it off.. not on.. The game looks beautiful with it on. When you turn it off the game loses brightness and just looks very odd. It simulates eye focus, so when you're focusing on something everything else blurs out. Sure it may take a hit on fps but I get nearly 100 fps on ultra/high settings anyway.

If you want it off just turn it off on the ini.. not that hard.

Twi doesn't have it as an option for a reason because it is a part of the immersion the more stuff you turn off the more you realize its just a game your playing and it looks crappier. With it on its just one more piece of the immersion puzzle basically.

 

[Lauch]

Just dont forget that turning DOF off also turns Bloom,motionblur, ambient occlusion , the post processing presets and the ingame aa off

 

[Nimsky]

Look at this screenshot from TotalBiscuit's video.

Blur, blur everywhere. Not only on the gun but literally everything in the foreground gets blurred. Only 1/6th part of the screen doesn't get blurred. It looks like ****. Not only that but it ruins situational awareness, so it's bad for gameplay as well. Thegame should never decide where the player can and cannot look. The player can do that himself.

TWI has always used post-processing effects in moderation, but this is just excessive. I have no idea why forced it on everyone. It ruins the graphics and it makes me realize why people keep saying "the graphics are bad". They're not bad - they're great actually, so why cover them up with a layer of blur?

Some people may like it, thinking blur is realistic. They are wrong of course. But that's not the point, and has been discussed to death already. There should be an option to turn it off.

 

[5thSSDW.KGW~CO]

Look at this screenshot from TotalBiscuit's video.

Blur, blur everywhere. Not only on the gun but literally everything in the foreground gets blurred. Only 1/6th part of the screen doesn't get blurred. It looks like ****. Not only that but it ruins situational awareness, so it's bad for gameplay as well. Thegame should never decide where the player can and cannot look. The player can do that himself.

TWI has always used post-processing effects in moderation, but this is just excessive. I have no idea why forced it on everyone. It ruins the graphics and it makes me realize why people keep saying "the graphics are bad". They're not bad - they're great actually, so why cover them up with a layer of blur?

Some people may like it, thinking blur is realistic. They are wrong of course. But that's not the point, and has been discussed to death already. There should be an option to turn it off.

Focus on something in your room right now and tell me everything around the point of focus isn't blurred.

 

[Das Bose]

Focus on something in your room right now and tell me everything around the point of focus isn't blurred.

Not like ingame it isn't DOF off all the way for me

 

[Nimsky]

Focus on something in your room right now and tell me everything around the point of focus isn't blurred.

*SIGH*

Not this again...

Of course I'm quite familiar with how human eyesight works.

The PLAYER should decide where he focuses on, NOT THE GAME. Depth of field effects never work. It only makes the game look uglier and gameplay more frustrating when the game all of a sudden goes "HERE, LET ME BLUR HALF THE SCREEN FOR YOU LOL."

 

[Richey79]

Focus on something in your room right now and tell me everything around the point of focus isn't blurred.

It's not being focused on, but it isn't blurred like that.

That looks like a 200mm focal length lens @ an aperture of f2 or less. The human eye is a spectacular piece of natural engineering, and far more versatile than the lenses and sensors we can currently build for cameras, which is what exaggerated DOF like this is emulating.

 

[Pechente]

Well if you focus on something in RO2, the focus also focusses (erm yeah). So it depends what you are looking at. It's not like the game decides

 

[wooki]

I had it off for a while for performance reasons. But then after getting better speed out of the game I put it back on because in my mind dof is one of the neater innovations 3D has received in later years. I fink it is the pretties.
Immershun

 

[mr_88]

Let people choose for themselves

Let people choose for themselves

Simple as that. But I agree that it should be an option in the GUI.

 

[rdy2go]

There really should be an option to turn off depth of field ingame, it is not only hurting performance the game also looks worse with it enabled.

I say this because I tried turning off Depth of Field in the ROEngine.ini file yesterday after I learned you could actually do this and it could improve performance, and sure enough it did, by up to 20 fps.

I turned this of in .ini file - more FPS and no terrible blurring, easier gameplay.

 

[throumbas]

It will never be an option ingame. Disabling DOF disables all other post processing and if you thing you're losing situational awareness then that's how the game is meant to be played, and how everyone else is seeing the game.

 

[Qweets]

the ****ing game can't know where your PHYSICAL EYES in real life are looking morons.. So of course it focus's on where your gun is aiming because thats where your characters eyes SHOULD be looking.. HUUUURRRPPPP DEEE DEEEERPPPPP... man, so many morons around, I may just catch the disease.

 

[Krobar]

I've looked into disabling DOF before and couldn't find the setting in ROEngine, can some one give me the exact sequence and the where abouts in the file that the option is? (I have vista, Dont know how different it is from win7) I could really use the FPS boost because I dont "get nearly 100 fps on ultra/high settings"

 

[Heilkraut]

to disable it u just need to set this variable
DepthOfField=True
to false

i think it would be ok if we just can turn down the effect a bit

i have it currently disabled but there is a variable in conf

DOFBlurValResolutionFactor that is set by default to 1.0 that could do the trick by lowering it to 0.25 or 0.5

 

[Mangley]

The game looks better with it off honestly. The only time it's acceptable is when using iron sights. But since it's on all the time the game turns into a smudgey mess of blurr unless you have textures and level detail on Ultra - which most don't.

So many reviews have commented on the dated graphics and I put that down to the DOF because it completely gets rid of any texture definition.

 

[SneakyPete]

I've turned DOF off and the game looks much better for it in my opinion, but only if you force AA through your graphics card control panel.

I'm really disliking the way textures on trees and wooden fences pop in now though, especially when going to iron sights. I don't remember this happening during beta.

 

[Amerikaner]

Look at this screenshot from TotalBiscuit's video.

I don't recall this ever happening to me. You bring up some valid points but, imo, the game does look worse with depth of field off. It adds alot to the cinematic feel and the detraction from gameplay is negligible or nonexistant for me. The problem I do have with blur is in spectator mode when every player you're following is a giant blur while the background is clear.

 

[Lauch]

The game looks better with it off honestly. The only time it's acceptable is when using iron sights. But since it's on all the time the game turns into a smudgey mess of blurr unless you have textures and level detail on Ultra - which most don't.

So many reviews have commented on the dated graphics and I put that down to the DOF because it completely gets rid of any texture definition.

DoF only blurs with ironsights on / spectator mode.

ive made some comparsion screenshots between those two and DoF on looks always better in terms of overall graphics