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[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 months ago (27 children)

Has the person who invented the depth of field effect for a video game ever even PLAYED a game before?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (18 children)

What is the depth of field option? When it's on what happens vs when it's off?

Side question, why the fuck does everything in IT reuse fucking names? Depth of field means how far from character it'll render the environment, right? So if the above option only has an on or off option then it is affecting something other than the actual depth of field, right? So why the fuck would the name of it be depth of fucking field??? I see this shit all the time as I learn more and more about software related shit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

In this context it just refers to a post processing effect that blurs certain objects based on their distance to the camera. Honestly it is one of the less bad ones imo, as it can be well done and is sometimes necessary to pull off a certain look.

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