Suggestion for future DX11 graphics features: Can we get Bloom & unsharp effect back?

[Vurtney]

As for the depth of field, ARR already has it. It's just limited to cutscenes.

I wouldn't mind having DOF during actual gameplay, especially if we had some control over it's strength.



This example is edited of course (with strong DOF) but it really adds subtle atmosphere. It's one of those things i've personally wanted for some time (that and better lighting)

Here's a link for a larger image:

http://i.imgur.com/umLaF5Z.jpg

[Kaisha]

I wouldn't mind having DOF during actual gameplay, especially if we had some control over it's strength.

I wouldn't mind it in some form of a photo mode for screenshot capturing (along with camera roll, tilt, etc, to get my character away from dead center of the screen), but otherwise you're just making your character out to be very nearsighted and blurring out landmark details the devs actually bothered to get to look decent in ARR.

Most of the maps are not particularly large enough where the DoF on fulltime would even have much of an aesthetic value either.

If we're discussing wanting actual eye-candy, per-object motion blur would be pretty dope, especially for MNKs.

[Xenosan]

http://i.imgur.com/umLaF5Z.jpg

You traced a zdepth map by hand? That depth map, that.. that seems like is a lot of work done to be done by hand, as in photoshop lasso tool hand??

Thank you for your time and effort.


I would hope to see Bloom and DoF in DX11. In Total War have the option to use older DX if your graphics card isn't up to par, DoF and shaders are the most significant improves with when using new dirctx

I'm looking forward to improved reflections as they teased a few months ago, the image based lighting at the moment is pretty sub par, i've tried toggling hdr on and off in different armorr, its nothing as good as it was in 1.0

edit: after spending some time looking at old 1.0 screenshots I've become very sad ._.

[Vurtney]

You traced a zdepth map by hand? That depth map, that.. that seems like is a lot of work done to be done by hand, as in photoshop lasso tool hand??

Thank you for your time and effort.

The image was done by someone else, no credit for me. Just using it as an example. For HDR you can use the poor mans solution with Sweetfx. I'm only using it for colour correction.

No, god no. The game never understands what I'm trying to look at, and so the DoF just makes things much, much worse. It's just like when I went to watch Avatar in 3D; they used DoF and it absolutely ruined it for me. In a standard 2D feature, DoF is fine, but with 3D (and thus video games), I want to be able to choose what I'm focusing on.

You can't say no to options, because that's what these graphical features are: optional.

Just curious on this, will dx11 be included in this client or would it be a different client all together?

Hoping they bring a 64bit client out. And better crossfire support.

really hoping 3.0 brings these features

Supposedly the new client is bundled with the expansion which means we have two options for a download/install depending which you buy. I have 2 GTX 680 so i'm with you there. The SLI/Crossfire just doesn't work optimally.

[TheRogueX]

I wouldn't mind having DOF during actual gameplay, especially if we had some control over it's strength.

No, god no. The game never understands what I'm trying to look at, and so the DoF just makes things much, much worse. It's just like when I went to watch Avatar in 3D; they used DoF and it absolutely ruined it for me. In a standard 2D feature, DoF is fine, but with 3D (and thus video games), I want to be able to choose what I'm focusing on.

Those pictures are great, and I love how they look... but that's because they're stills and not moving images.

Until a game can detect where my eyes are looking and focus where I want it to, I say an absolute no to DoF.

[BreathlessTao]

PS3 limitations. Please look forward to it.

Not sure what PS3 has to do with individual graphics option on a PC.

Heavensward is the last expansion the ps3 is getting support for, though, isn't it?

Also not sure where you got that from. They only said that Heavensward was still fully designed with PS3 support in mind. (I wouldn't mind if it was though, when PS3 is getting to be the excuse for features not being implemented time and time again - it is restricting development.)