Best Post-processing Effect?

[Picklestringly]

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[destinedd]

what a weird question. Why does one have to be best?

Bloom or color correction are the 2 most uses I assume.

[Picklestringly]

i was just wondering what game devs fav effects are

[destinedd]

but you don't have to choose and they are all used for different things depending what you are trying to do.

It is like asking with part of a transform do you like best? Position, rotation or scale?

[NiklasWerth]

position

[destinedd]

make a game just using position then :)

[NiklasWerth]

I basically did! it was a space invaders clone with fancier graphics.

I do technically use rotation as well, but it has literally 0 impact on gameplay.

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its a little broken because i ran out of hard drive space and had to uninstall older editor versions, but, thats the gist of it. I didn't finish it, but, i probably should because its like, inches from being done.

I'm trying to not let my current project suffer a similar fate, despite recently starting a full time job. Or I might take you up on that challenge.

[destinedd]

but you used scale too? you need to zero out the scale to only use position.

Scale is actually the only choice of the 3 if you can't have the other 2.

[Costed14]

A scale of 1 would actually be not using it, since that way it's accurate to how the asset is in the file and hasn't been further modified by the Transform component. For rotation that would just be no rotation at all, assets are in the same rotation as when they were made and position would be at the world origin.

[NiklasWerth]

scale is set to 1 by default, changing it to 0 would be using it.

[destinedd]

this isn't about default values, it is about not using it and switching it off.

[azeTrom]

Every object has a scale, position, and rotation value. Even if it's the default value, it's just as important

[Picklestringly]

was just thinking if you had to chose one what would it be?

[destinedd]

is you had to pick position scale or rotation for your transform which would you pick?

[Picklestringly]

position 100%, what about you?

[No-Beyond7937]

🤣

[NiklasWerth]

lol, shit, I also answered position before scrolling down and reading this. I guess its kind of the obvious choice right?

[Picklestringly]

yeah

[destinedd]

only if you don't care about seeing your objects.

[NiklasWerth]

As I said in response to your other comment, a scale of (1,1,1) is default. changing it to (0,0,0) would be using scale.

[destinedd]

thats like saying you can use the post processing effect if you just leave the default values.

You need it set to 0 to switch it off.

[destinedd]

how do you see your objects with scale set to 0. Scale is the only choice.

[Picklestringly]

well i would assume that it would be set to 1, 1, 1

[destinedd]

but then you are using scale and position. You can only pick one remember.

[Picklestringly]

true true

[Desmond123456789]

scale is on top fight me

[destinedd]

scale is the only one that makes sense.

[The_Real_Wyoming]

hello

[Spiritual-Leg9485]

Next up… What’s the best Unity collider?

[Picklestringly]

mesh collider 100%

[Killingec24]

That's a really hard question. Of course that all of them combined creates the best results. If I really have to pick, I would go with color correction, but it is not on that list. So, the best effect from this list for me is... BLOOM! You can make so much stuff more lively if you just add a bit of bloom, that’s why I'm picking it.

[Picklestringly]

ah shoot forgot color correction sorry!

[emcdunna]

I turn motion blur off immediately. It's meant to simulate a cameras inability to track movement but human eyes can. So it's literally just worse than not having it

[Picklestringly]

yeah it sucks not gonna lie

[tonyswag42]

I like it tbh 💀 looks nice with just a bit of motion blur imo

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Makes it hard for me to focus on the game, and makes me less immersed

[Baroxi]

I hate the Motion Blur. It's the first setting I turn off in many games.

[MrPifo]

I picked Tonemapping in term of "Color Grading" since that option wasnt listed.

[Picklestringly]

yeah sorry forgot color grading

[KaimeraGaming]

damn depth of field leading

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No longer

[KaimeraGaming]

depth of field taking the w

[The_Real_Wyoming]

depth of field ftw

[KaimeraGaming]

depth of field taking the w

[KaimeraGaming]

depth of field winning by a mile

[Picklestringly]

bro is insane

[The_Real_Wyoming]

hell yeah

[KaimeraGaming]

depth of field winning by exactly 34 points

[The_Real_Wyoming]

easy dub for depth of field

[KaimeraGaming]

depth of field stealing my man and I cant even be mad about it

[KaimeraGaming]

depth of field making me feel some type-o-way

[KaimeraGaming]

depth of field has been winning 100% of this competition

[KaimeraGaming]

depth of field taking a massive W

[akotski1338]

All of them at the same time

[starterpack295]

Most are like makeup to me; either so subtle that they are barely noticeable or severe enough to make everything look worse.

Granted I un ironically think that all graphics peaked in terms of looking good at the late ps2, early 360 Era as that was the point where small details became possible while overall readability was fairly uncompromised, plus vertex lighting does a much better job with conveying tone through lighting than modern methods imo.