Depth Of Field 34 (not working in stereo)

Just to clarify, I'm not using DOF for focus adjustment on near objects, useless for VR. The idea is to use it on the backgrounds to add in some good looking bokeh hexagonal lens effects.

Yes I could bake them into the background HDRI image but we would loose all the cool fading, occlusion, rotation and exposure effects we get with bokeh.

Just looking for a solve on with Stereo which seems to be busted! :)

Has anybody else has noticed this bug?

Yes, I have seen it happen. I am not sure if there is a fix, but I will ask.

Ah, I found the fix.

You need to move the DOF script to be above the OVRCamera script. You can do this by right-clicking the little gear button on the right-hand side and choosing "Move up" a few times.

"cybereality" wrote:
Ah, I found the fix.

You need to move the DOF script to be above the OVRCamera script. You can do this by right-clicking the little gear button on the right-hand side and choosing "Move up" a few times.

Thanks Cybereality! I tried that first thing but the script skips right back down to the bottom again when I run the game. Do you know why?

Sorry, I was wrong. This "trick" only seems to work in Play mode. If you do it in Edit mode it will drop down to the bottom when you play the scene. Unfortunately, this seems to be a quirk of how Unity works. I'm hoping there is a work-around, but I don't have the answer just yet.

"cybereality" wrote:
Sorry, I was wrong. This "trick" only seems to work in Play mode. If you do it in Edit mode it will drop down to the bottom when you play the scene. Unfortunately, this seem to be a quirk of how Unity works. I'm hoping there is a work-around, but I don't have the answer just yet.

OK thanks. I hope a fix for this bug might become available from Unity.

Any progress? Have you found a way to get DOF working with the Rift?
Thanks!

Sorry, no progress.

The issue is that the DOF effect works on the original depth (before the warp shader runs). If we could re-order the effects so DOF ran before the warp then it would work (and you can do this in test mode). However it seems Unity likes to re-order the objects how it sees fit. Not sure how to fix this.

One workaround could be to put in another pair of Rift cameras. Pair #1 will render the scene normally and this is where you put the DOF effect. Pair #2 renders nothing and does nothing except apply lens correction and chromatic aberration correction to the scene rendered so far. This approach doesn't universally work on all image effects though, but perhaps it is worth a shot.