Thought Id give DOF a try :)

So I was so excited about the release I thought id go ahead and throw a quick scene together... Here are some screenshots! Enjoy

 

*shiver* I need to get pro... I need to get pro...

Looks great! A bit too blurry in the far off for my opinion, but the depth effect is really stunning.

Frank

 

so does this work in real time? Because Unity seems to be becoming more cooler than CryEngine2. I'm serious.

 

Wow!

Do you have a web-player for this? It would be nice to see how this holds up in realtime.

 

I am curious where people are seeing that DOF is a pro-only feature. On the release notes page (http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-2.1), it lists three as pro-only:

Scripted Asset Processing is a Unity Pro-only feature.
Real-time shadows on terrains are a Unity Pro-only feature.
Streaming asset bundles are a Unity Pro-only feature.

But the Rendering with Shader Replacement section does not say this. But I couldn't get the shader replacement project to work with my Unity Indie so I am not sure what to believe!

 

Shader replacement is not Pro-only, and actually doesn't do anything that wasn't possible before (with manually swapping materials in OnPreRender etc.); it's just a lot more convenient now. The thing is, most of what you'd want to use shader replacement for requires render textures also, which are Pro-only of course. Like rendering the depth of the scene into a texture so you can blur it for DoF.

--Eric

 

Webplayer download of the scene..

 

Everything is real-time even the cubemap on the ball is real-time!

 

Now I get it. Thanks.

 

Wow! This is really good for fps's with iron sights etc

 

Fas-kin-atin...

After a very quick squiz of the demo...

This is a great implementation of the idea of using Depth of Field in a game.

The reflections in the ball are great.

Coming from a photographic background I had some tho'ts.

The blur seems just too blurry all over.

The blur seemed to get too blurry too fast.

Depth of field is related to depth of focus and focus - so when the object if very close to the camera, the depth of field is smaller/shorter. This seems pretty good in the demo. When the ball is very close to camera it works well. However, as the object moves away from the camera, and the camera should be focusing farther away from itself to keep the ball in focus, so the depth of field should grow as well. There were times when the ball moved very far away from the camera and became substantially smaller than a single field in frame, yet the depth of focus around the ball was the same size. This felt odd to me. The math for this is well established if you can implement it to work on the fly.

Also - depth of field is a factor of the distance from the camera to the point of focus, not the distance from the object in focus, so the focus would be a band of all objects at the same distance from the camera - not the distance from the object in focus. This may be an optical illusion from the demo, but it seemed that the focus was being calculated as distance from the ball, rather than the camera. (But I easily could be wrong about what I was seeing...)

Visually, the first thing that you are going to be fighting is the eye is used to an optical "out of focus" effect that is different from a straight forward digital "blur". There are algorithms that do this as well, but they may be too complicated for on the fly rendering.

Looks great, and I look forward to seeing where this is going.

 

One bad thing about the scene is that there's too much grass. I don't mean visually really, but for performance reasons there's too much. My poor fans are in overdrive, and I'm sure I'm not getting the intended frame rate.

 

Well like I said at the top, it was a quick scene i put together... I seriously put it together in a couple hours! I have the same scene optimized, got rid of the real-time cubemap, decreased the amount of grass and rendering distance, shortened the clipping plane, and all around cleaned it up... Im almost sure the real-time cubemap is the cause of your computer working so hard though

 

Hey, I posted a cleaner faster version of the DOF demo up above where the old one was... Hopefully this one is a little better!

Jake

 

how'd you get the ball so detailed??

 

The ball is using a reflective bumpmapped shader with a cube map I attached to it... You can find the script for rendering the Cubmap somewhere on the script reference but im not sure off hand where that is... Hope that helps?

I added you to my MSN so if you have anymore questions go ahead and ask...

Laterz, Jake

 

Oh cool, will be sure to ask for a step by step process

 

most excellent demo...

--Mike