Again though, it’s all down to personal preference. The main question you should ask yourself is: Do I want my game to look like I’m viewing it through the lens of a camera? Obviously it will make your game look more ‘cinematic’, but is that something you really want in your game about killer bunnies shooting rainbows at unicorns? Maybe in your gritty crime detective story, or a photorealistic horror game. If we’re really trying to stretch here and I mean really going for a stretch, you might be able to save a single extra frame, if even that.Ĭhromatic Aberration is mostly down to personal taste. Whether or not you want to enable it there will be little to no impact on the performance. This means it is purely for personal preference. These days developers or publishers want certain cinematic effects in their games, making the production value seem higher than it actually is (I’m looking at you, letterboxing) and potentially adding more weight to certain scenes.Įssentially it is just a cinematic effect, much like letter-boxing or vignetting.

The camera you control in-game does not distort or refract light like real cameras there is no ‘lens’ to refract light in the first place, so why use it?Īdding Chromatic Aberration will make the game seem as if it was filmed with a camera. Since it doesn’t necessarily exist naturally in video games, many developers will just use a simulation of the effect instead.īut why is it used in games in the first place? Chromatic aberration is exclusive to camera lenses, which usually don’t exist in video games.

In photography, Chromatic Aberration is a natural effect that occurs depending on the type and quality of lens used. Essentially it’s when a lens fails to focus all the colours into a single point, causing an ever so slight colour shift on the edges of some objects, depending on the brightness of said object. Chromatic Aberration, or CA, is an effect caused by the refraction of light into the lens of a camera.

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