, agreed, though I personally don't mind as it is now.

http://christmasstockimages.com/free/xmas-lights/christmas_lights.jpg

http://www.desktopart.com/thumbnails/cityscapes_lights_street_lights_depth_of_field_16060.jpg

, sounds good.

@Harry Potter
The light in your picture#2 is extremely bright compared to the others.
(through the bloom and dof you can't even see the actual shape of the light as it is in the texture)

The brighter a part in the image is, the clearer the blur-shape is visible, just like here:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Christmas_Tree_Lights_Bokeh.jpg

The bokeh-dof and hdr rendering in the game does exactly the same, so I honestly don't see that this is a problem...

Maybe it's just because it's a still image, I dont know, but it seems perfectly normal to me.
(you can see the light's brightness better in the actual game)

I see what Harry Potter means, but I don't see anything wrong in the picture - as Kartoffel says, the lights in question are obviously very bright, and I think that the image reads very well in that regard. It'd look wrong if the light was as blurred as the referenced lights that are not as bright.

...anyway, thanks guys for all your responses
Maybe I'll upload a video soon, but I'm not sure if thats really necessary.

Maybe it looks better, when the lights in the foreground (lights number 1) are not blurred so much.
Because it looks confusing to me when an object (or light) in the foreground is blurrier than an object in the background.

I believe this impression is very much due to the nature of the Bokeh.
As far as I can see, the scene is rendered with HDR and a nice bloom shader, resulting in all lights to have blurred bleeding. As the Bokeh filter is applied, the lights in the background get much sharper edges due to their brightness, and therefore may seem less blurred than the lights in the foreground.

But this always happens with a Bokeh filter afaik; Consider this reference picture:
http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2011/03/Unreal-Engine-3-Bokeh-depth-of-field.jpg
There is a light (or multiple lights) straight above the cigarette with a very sharp edge, much sharper than for example the purple-ish light in the middle of the mostright third of the picture, even though the latter is a tiny bit closer to the camera than the former.

Kartoffel, this looks really great man, we waiting for new video .
Stansmedia, this 3 shots looks great (especially the young lady in the bath ), only i think you need corect just a bit color of light. Looks like yellow is to strong in first two pictures, and this looks a bit strange. Just my personal taste, maybe i wrong, but i think there need more tone of "white" light, to make the whole thing looks more natural.
But all in all, great work guys!

Nice screenshot Kartoffel. Though I'm usually not a friend of DOF, I actually like this one.


I was recently thinking of what one might find in jcl's office. This is what I came up with:

@lemming,

JCL's LASERTRAIN: all your engines belong to us

If there is anything in his office it's a photoshoped poster of the wolf of wall street.