3D blur shader?

PaulH

I've done some 3D shader work, but has anyone tried making a shader similar to the "Blur" effect in the luashaders example? I'm thinking I might want a shader that can make some 3D elements appear out of focus. If that can be done with a shader, that would be slick. If not I can make a blurry skybox to surround the scene.

Any suggestions?

rrraptor

Depth of field (DoF) effect? Here is a video that might help:

The only thing left is to apply it to gideros

PaulH

Yeah, exactly that. For my current project full depth of field support is more than I need, and I'm thinking any use of shaders to do what I'm after would be computationally wasteful, basically redoing the blurring every frame. Since all I really want is an out-of-focus background surrounding my scene, it probably makes more sense to create images of the background, blur them, then make bitmaps of those to surround the scene.

I'm making this harder than it has to be. I'll just make a low-contrast, not distracting texture. The goal is to surround the virtual fly tying (making fishing flies) station I'm working on.

For future projects it would be great to have a depth-of-field shader, though!

rrraptor

PaulH said:

redoing the blurring every frame

But you can do it once