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tux
16-06-2004, 01:54 PM
does anyone know if its possible to create a blur affect for distance objects?

especially for racing games so all the trees are blured but that car isnt?

kindof like this photo i took

http://gallery.vadertrophy.com/albums/Jons-Lemans/afr.jpg

thanks :)

Paulius
16-06-2004, 03:39 PM
What you want is called the depth of field effect, but afaik you cant do it acceptably fast without pixel shaders. Here's some article about it http://ducati.doc.ntu.ac.uk/uksim/dad/webpagepapers/Game-18.pdf

tux
17-06-2004, 06:10 PM
thanks. saved it :)

btw theres a typo in the url, it should be

http://ducati.doc.ntu.ac.uk/uksim/dad/webpagepapers/game-18.pdf :)