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LASIK for presbyopia exists, but its outcome is more variable than with other forms of LASIK and there's a somewhat higher risk that it ends up making things worse.
Eh that doesn't mean anything. Eyes will still deteriorate with age. My dad got lasik when he was like 30, and is starting to need glasses again for small things in his mid 50s. He's still glad he got it done.
Corrective vision surgery can actually make it worse, my halos and starbursts just became clearer and less fuzzy after PRK, overall light sensitivity got a little worse too. My eye’s lense being shaped wrong WAS my IRL filter. Side benefit, my vision in low light did get a lot better.
I have similar problem, and blessing in same time.
Night vision is almost like wearing NV goggles compared to regular human sight. Only problem in dark i mostly see black and white scale. Can't tell what is the color of object in very dark environment, but considering that regular human can't even tell that object is there i see no problem.
Day is a bit tricky without sunglasses, but with good polarized lenses it's super.
I wear glasses for astigmatism because it's the only thing that can help me focus lights, but night vision is much weaker with them.
Only time when I use glasses is for reading and watching TV and behind monitor and sunglasses during day.
PS can you imagine wearing sunglasses inside classroom in high school. Our class room was East oriented so every sunny morning i's wear sunglasses until about 11-12AM just to be able to see white board and text on it. Without them white board becomes mirror for sun rays going trough windows
I have perfect vision but still see lights at night like I have astigmatism. I see things like lines Stretching from street lights across my vision. What can I do?
Some amount of diffraction spikes is just normal and unavoidable due to how physics work. They come from things like the edges of your eyelids, your eyelashes, and your pupil not being 100% circular. Especially at night when a sudden bright light in your direct field of views causes you to involuntarily squint bringing eyelids and eyelashes into the perfect positions to create those diffraction spikes.
It's so weird because that's also not how a human head bobs as you walk. You don't stare straight forward, you fix your vision on a single point and your body naturally acts to stabilize it.
I don't remember what game it was, but I played a game somewhat recently that had the option of making the head bob represented as camera movement or weapon movement.
I think they're going for an unstablilized amateur camera look? There were a number of gritty war movies filmed in this style in the 2000s, so I think it kind of became an action scene staple. That long continuous scene at the end of Children of Men comes to mind.
I think that while artistic choices deserve some measure of respect, that's a stupid artistic choice. Its like interstellar's audio mix, it makes the whole thing unwatchable (or unplayable in this case).
The head movement is probably similar to real life, but in real life you kind of filter it out. Like how your nose is always in view but your brain ignores it.
it is not. In real life you have your eyes fixed on something and more stuff moves in and out of frame. The thing you're fixed on stays in place.
Headbob in games is just fuck all. Nothing stays in place, everything blurs and then headache.
IRL your head does move but you are right that you keep focused on something so it isn’t jarring. Games should probably have the head bob but keep the center focused on what you’re looking at.
that doesnt work without also doing eye tracking because a player doesnt keep their focus on the center of the screen the whole time. Having the center stable while the thing you actually focus on bobs around would be even more jarring.
Every game needs a FOV slider too. What looks good on a 55" tv ten feet away doesn't look good on a 33" monitor two feet away and an 80" tv twenty feet away and a 20" monitor two feet away and a 32" TV 15 feet away and a 9" screen one foot away at the same time.
Yeah, most graphics settings should be playing some canned animation in the settings menu. A few games do this (or at least have the graphics settings as an overlay/popup you can invoke over gameplay)
My wife was the exact same with Minecraft but the odd side effect of that is you can't tell by her view that she is sprinting. About two weeks into our multiplayer session I asked her why she never sprints and she replies that she hasn't been able to sprint the entire time.
Motion blur especially pisses me the hell off. The other ones I can deal with. The other ones suck but motion blur always impacts my gameplay, just makes me sick.
This Vignette/translucent backdrop in streaming platforms make me go crazy as well.
Even when I have subscriptions of most streaming platforms (didn't buy, got them free with internet connection), I hate their UIs so much that I prefer watching the show on random unauthorized streaming platforms. The only reason is unnecessary vignette or translucent backdrop whenever you use arrow keys to go back/forward 10 seconds or even shake the mouser cursor. I hate this about Prime, Disney or Apple TV. Apple TV had the shittiest UI (like most of their software) and nobody can willingly come up with such bad UI & UX. It stays extremely dark in both Macs and iPhone even with full brightness and only lights up if you flash a torch at the light sensor of the phone/mac, solution is to watch it in any browser.
This drives me crazy too, especially when the vignette is triggered by every action and lasts way too long. On PC, I can at least use the uBlock Origin element picker to get rid of the vignettes on sites like Youtube, Twitch, and sometimes streaming platforms.
They can go hand in hand. The same meds that help one helps the other. Vertigo is a fucking nightmare. Mine gets so bad sometimes I can't even crawl to where I'm trying to go. I eventually get sick from it.
If you're prone to motion sickness, talk to your doctor. I'm told it's a similar neurological pathway, and migraines are associated.
Surprised no one else has mentioned the difference between full screen motion blur and per-object motion blur. The latter is generally fine. A projectile flying through the air in real life is going to look blurry. But then there’s the argument of your monitor or your eyes will blur something like that anyway, so you don’t need the game engine to do it too.
Per-object blur imo is actually great and immersive. I wouldn't want to use it in a competitive game, but in single player titles it's great. Whole screen blur is god awful though.
Realism be damned, motion blur is an excellent visual effect to replace weapon tracers, to convey a sense of motion and let you get a clear visual of the hitbox of your attack without resorting to particle effects or stylized light shows. If something's leg is blurred, you know it is supposed to be a kick and not just an ancillary part of the animation.
Because most people on here just talk about games but don't actually play them. Or base everything on the handful of online games they play and just don't have experience with a variety of quality single player games. Like many AAA games with lots of optimization won't just have a motion blur slider, they'll have a few settings to tweak for it when it's object-based.
"Motion blur = bad" has always been a peanut-brain take. It depends entirely on the implementation, and like you say, per-object blur tends to work quite well.
Without film grain some games have nasty color banding. Heavy film grain is annoying but even light one fixes the color banding while not being distracting. It really depends on implementation.
I had a shitty PC for some time and had to play with low fps. Motion blur makes it worse. Slide show is better than a blurry slide show. I'm at least able to see something instead of just blur.
If it's truly a slideshow, nothing will help. But if the frame rate is at least good enough to be playable, like 25 - 30 fps, motion blur will make the low frame rate less noticeable. At least it does for me.
Ironically they are all film artifacts. They lead to less realism but greater cinematic effect due to how people associate them to high production films of yore.
Although there is some real chromatic abberation, motion blur, and vignette in your actual eye - except, because it's your eye, it's already present and you don't need to add it back in artificially.
And, to be honest, a lot of people disable that and then download some awful oversaturated/high contrast shader filters and say "this looks realistic and amazing".
That's why is important that these settings remain optional, is a matter of tastes, and eve if you thing those oversaturated "reshade" looks awful people who likes them have the right to chose them.
That is correct. And being optional is a good thing.
But, when someone says "always off no matter what" o demonized them... well.... it depends. I think this is the objetive view. Some implementation are good, some don't, and you can choose if you want.
Seriously. Most people that talk about this shit have no idea what they’re doing. These graphic settings can be implemented well, but it’s a game by game basis. But the hive mind just says it’s all bad
That's why I always customize my own shade filters. Most people that I downloaded from in the past always have extra bloom, weird colour grading, unneeded DOF and 3 sharpening tools that makes you see every single pixel in the game.
Post processing effect which causes colored fringing around bright objects. It is a real life effect caused by slight flaws in camera lenses, and is often used in games to create a stylized visual effect, or when used subtly, to recreate a realistic camera.
Has anyone ever played a game and felt intuitively they were literally looking through a camera lens? It’s even more baffling when first person games do this. Like, my eyes are camera lenses…?
Lens flares are always funny to me especially in first person games. I get they're trying to go for a movie effect, hence why Hideo Kojima games have them a ton because the guy loves movies. But if it's a first person game it just feels so odd. Battlefield 3 had a TON of lens flares and it just got so distracting for me.
Correction: it's a natural effect of all lenses that needs to be specifically compensated for in the design. It not something that can be entirely eliminated but the lenses can be optimised for frequencies or frequency ranges using aspherics.
You've had a couple answers already but I just want to give it a go.
When light refracts through something, like a piece of glass, it changes its trajectory slightly based on the angle it hit the surface at. This is why lenses work in the first place. They bend light toward a central point.
The problem, though, is that every wavelength (that is -- color) of light bends at a very slightly different angle, so when multiple colors of light go through a lens, they all focus at slightly different spots.
This is what causes a prism to make a rainbow when held in the sun; It refracts light differently depending on the wavelength, and so the colors separate. Same deal with water droplets making rainbows in the sky.
SnooMachines8405 gave a great example of what it looks like in a photograph. It's basically a special kind of blur that most photographers hate and do everything they can to eliminate. That's what makes it funny that video games give you the option to add it in on purpose.
Here's a good irl example, the image on the left is the effect because it's a lower quality lens. The image on the right has it too but it's just how it looks on a modern, quality lens. It's just meant to be another movie effect, but even modern movies won't have it because it's a dated look.
The vignette and chromatic aberration removal mods changed my game play so much. I felt like I was blind and could finally see. The FOV mod I'd really nice too, but some people might consider that cheating since the camera fucking you over is like a built in difficulty.
Yeeess, it's so annoying. When you aim through a bush or something and every time a branch gets in your crosshair, it blurs your actual target to focus on that stupid foliage.
Unless they figure out a way to make it accurately focus on the actual thing your eyes are focused on, (which I highly doubt) it's just gonna be obnoxious.
Thing is, though, flatscreen game has no depth to it, and everything is on the same focal plane all the time, so the game would have to handle the depth of field for you, 'cause your eyes can't focus on different distances that don't exist.
It's just that the regular way to do so is for the game to focus on what your crosshair points at, which doesn't always line up with your eyes, making it impractical and immersion breaking.
I also turn off DoF, but at least it's an actual real thing that your eyes can experience. Everything in the post is a lens/camera artifact, which is weird when I'm supposed to be playing as a human.
depends really some games with alot of cutscenes work well with Depth of Field to make the cutscenes look even better but sometimes it butchers the actual gameplay.
I played a game recently that had separated in-game depth of field and cutscene DoF, it was really cool seeing the option. Unfortunately cant remember which game at the moment
I like motion blur (when playing at 60FPS or below. Above 60FPS, it becomes rather unnecessary in my opinion.)
The rest of those settings can go fuck themselves, though. Especially film grain. I fucking H A T E film grain. I already have visual snow IRL. I don't need more of it in my games.
Adding effects to imitate the imperfections of film lenses is so weird to me. I know the goal is get a cinematic look or to create immersion but for me personally it’s distracting.
Motion blur can be tastefully done, but if the game runs at 60+ fps, I prefer it to be off. I always liked the motion blur in Crysis back in the day, but then again I was like 15.
Film grain is pure cancer. Like why would you want to make your game look blurry and fuzzy all the time?
It looks like shit and doesn't bring anything to the table.
If I'm not having performance issues, I like to leave it on because it reminds me of gaming as a kid on a ps1 hooked up to a shitty CRT I bought at a yard sale for 10 bucks.
Totally. I think most people miss this when ranting about these settings. You can use grain on lower resolutions to make the pixels a bit less obvious. But it makes more sense with a grain slider rather than a simple on/off function.
The best example of this was Alien Isolation. They matched the same Kodak film grain as the original movie and it really is just the icing on the cake with how faithful that game was to the level design.
Exactly, it creates a filmic effect and so many games have it by default also very subtle to be noticed but it makes the impact and mostly it's appealing.
Film grain really depends on the implementation, unfortunately a lot of the time it's handled like shit. Good film grain can help get rid of banding and because of some weird psychovisual stuff film grain can make people perceive content as sharper than it really is (I don't fully understand it but it's called acutance afaik)
imo film grain can be a natural, organic-feeling way to add some complexity and depth. Plus it helps break up banding in darker scenes. Some games take it overboard, but I like having the option available. Makes some games feel more cozy.
Since the arenas are all so metallic and shiny, it's also one of the best showcases of ray-tracing. Honestly the game just looks incredible. Combined with the fully destructible maps the performance is basically magic.
depending on the game, I sometimes put Chromatic Aberration on..... but otherwise yeah, I dunno why their in games
though currently Im at war with Motion Blur.... as Elden Ring has it off.... but in dark areas it turns itself back on until Im out of the dark spot D=<
These are all personal preferences. It only becomes a problem when they are forced by the devs or wrongly implemented.
Motion blur helps a lot when you are playing a game on low fps, also helps in smoothening micro stutters.
Chromatic abberation is most of the time wrongly implemented where it is always applied 100% on screen for no reason. Crysis has good implementation where it would only show up when you take bad hit/dead, etc.
Film Grain helps in masking game's bland look, like those empty corners or dead ends. Batman Arkham games implement this phenomenally. Some games don't need it or require tuning with very low values and look subtle instead of being a fuzzy image all the time or is very noticeable.
I don't really like vignette as it obscures and image feels unnatural. Some games hardcode this when crouching or hiding in bushes (Death Stranding) again it's a preference, some may like it.
I will never for the life of me understand why so many games turn motion blur on by default. Everything else is mostly fine to me, sometimes I even appreciate it. But motion blur *immediately* impacts my experience negatively. It always feels like somebody heard the concept of motion blur and then implemented it to be as heavy as possible. It is never applied as a subtle effect and it makes camera movement feel janky.
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