#igcsdof

NOT A DRILL!

Playing Dragon Age Inquisition? Want to take beautiful screenshots? Always wanted to try Otis’ amazing premium photomode tools?

Well now you can for FREE 💚

Frans Bouma has released his tools for DAI for free, and it supports IGCSDOF 💕

IGCSDOF is a superior depth of field solution. It requires Frans’ photomode tools to work, alongside ReShade.

It comes as the igcsconnector ReShade addon and a complimentary igcsdof ReShade shader.

Any dof you see in my Cyberpunk, BG3 or RDR2 shots use IGCSDOF.

It doesn’t work like the dof shaders you’re used to. You access it via the addon tab. You can’t use it in real time. You have to set up your shot, and then set up IGCSDOF.

When you turn it on, you won’t see any blur at all. You’ll see two versions of the scene layered on each other. The distance between the overlap of these 2 images determines the strength of blur.

There are lots of options for bokeh shape, CA, and quality.

Once you’ve selected the settings you want, you ‘render’ the image. This will take anything from a few seconds to a few minutes (or more!) depending on the quality you chose, the game fps, and how powerful your PC is.

Once the image is rendered you’ll see the blur as it’s meant to be. Then you take the shot, and end the IGCSDOF session.

It sounds complex, and it can be to begin with. But you quickly get the hang of it.

And trust me, it is very definitely worth it. The quality of the dof is miles ahead of regular dof shaders. It treats glass and other transparent objects correctly, and edges aren’t haloed.

Now’s your chance to give it a try! IGCSDOF/IGCS connector is always free, but Frans’ camera tools, that are required to use it, usually require a patreon subscription (worth it imo).

Baldur's Gate 3 ➤ My Tav + Astarion

Oh my gosh, it feels nice to be back to hotsampling again. I missed it! I finished BG3 a few months ago and now I am obsessed with modding and taking screenshots. Also, I thought I lost this account for good but I managed to recover it. Phew!

Hi anon,

IGCSDOF doesn't work like a traditional DoF shader. It takes a little getting used to.

I'm guessing you've read the guide on Frans' website about IGCSDOF? So you should understand the basics from there. Make sure you have the companion IGCSDOF.fx shader activated in your load order. You want it to be at the bottom of your load order. The only thing below it should be film grain.

Basically what happens is:

choose whether you want fast or classic mode (if you're using TAA/DLAA/DLSS/FSR you'll want to use classic mode) and choose the number of frames to wait (for classic you'll probably want 4-5 to be safe, for fast you'll likely want 2 but you may need to experiment to see which produces the sharpest in-focus results)

decide what you want to be in focus, and turn on the magnifying box and position it over that part of the image

move the focus slider until the double images overlay each other perfectly and sharply in the area you want to be in focus

move the intensity slider (above the focus slider) until the part of the image you want to be blurred has its double images a distance away from each other - the further apart they are the more blurred it will be (this is the hardest part to get used to, but you'll quickly learn what you need to aim for)

readjust the focus slider if it became slightly misaligned when you adjusted the intensity

make any adjustments to quality and bokeh shapes (if you're making a test render to check the bokeh/blur intensity, set the quality to low at first so it renders quickly, and then change it to higher once you're happy)

start the rendering and wait for it to finish

take your shot

end the session

Depending on the mode (fast or classic) and quality you chose, the number of frames you wait, and the fps of your game, the rendering part can take anywhere from a few seconds to several long minutes. That's completely normal.

While it's rendering, it takes hundreds of separate temporary shots from different angles. This is why it looks like it's moving around on the screen. It then blends all those shots together into one final one, and that's when you take your picture.