I like it when it's used to give a sureal effect, like a "something is wrong" feeling like in dreams or hallucinations or others It is heavily (and cleanly I would say) used in Little Misfortune, it fits the artstyle and the feel of the game quite well
@@PixelProphecy ahhh.... ein deutscher Edgerunner? (Note: everything I know about Deutsche is from Rammstein. If it’s not a Rammstein lyric, I probably can’t say/understand it. Except for “der junge esse kartoffel.” Idk why I know that.)
I'm surprised by all the Chromatic Aberration hate in the comments. I think it looks awesome when it's used well in art and other media. Awesome video though, glad I finally understand where it comes from.
Fantastic video! Very informative/educational. Everything was very easy to understand with your approach and animations; excellent visual explanations!
Awesome, thanks for taking the time to explain this in a very understandable way yet not dumbing it down. Video is not too short, not too long... perfect. (now I know what to turn off in Valheim) :D
This was important to know about when we still used photography to create maps. The camera lens at Cartography School was 150mm, and was considered small. So the usable part of the image was only in the middle part of the lens, to remove chromatic abberation (and spherical abberation). Now the printing is all done electronically.
Bravo. I was just watching Digital Foundry's analysis of the ResE4 remake "chainsaw demo". When they started talking about the CA implementation, I asked myself "when and why did CA become a thing in games?" Your video does a great job of speaking to this. I really appreciate your recap of ALL the things game devs have done to recreate optical artifacts (including the abuse of bloom once upon a time). Great, concise video. Thank you.
This is a really good video. The pursuit of realism is a double edged sword. Like why on earth would they add lens flares on an FPS game? Does the main character have a camera for a head?
I am not sure I like Chromatic Aberration or not. But, what I really know is that your video is helpful, informative and 100% entertaining. If I were at your place, I'd have come down and have a shake hand with you for such a wonderful graphics on the aberretion.
Great video mate! Very clear explanation of what chromatic aberration is, and with excelent examples. Very recommended to anyone who look what to do with this setting! Thank you.
Thank you! Very well explained, but maybe some of your audience are players who are wondering exactly what it is as a setting (myself included) and might also want to know how it affects performance on the CPU/GPU/RAM, just a recommendation for more info to cover. Great job, even though this is a bit older, I hope you still read this and get some good feedback! Good Luck!
Only 47k? Idk why but I felt like at 15 seconds in this videos good enough quality for at least 1.7million. I didn’t even look first I just clicked it from bing (gamepass shit don’t worry about it) and opened to RU-vid for comments. Watched for a sec and thought “this is tight, I’m easy, bet this is where everyone goes. Either everyone already knew what chromatic aberration was or they went somewhere else because I’m honestly surprised.
To be honest I dislike Bloom and motion blur a lot in my games... I can appreciate the nostalgic value of lens flare (if moderately used). I want to keep my vision clear and as clean as possible in my 3D games
Excellent video on chromatic aberration! I don't play video games, but I can see why they would want to add some to make it more realistic. I do a lot of photography and hate it when I get it in my photographs.
Thanks for watching and commenting! Yeah it's funny how people on one end of the spectrum (pun intended!) try to get rid of it while others try to recreate it digitally 😅
@@PixelProphecy No, I think I misrepresented it. I mean your channel deserves more subscribers and views. I really appreciate the effort in this video. :)
Pixel Prophecy brought me here lol. I truly enjoyed this video. While playing Jedi Fallen Order I toggled multiple video settings. I truly see the developer Respawn is trying to create a movie like experience for the player. Sometimes I prefer these options to be disabled because it seems to present a sharper and clearer looking game. Then there are times I like the options turned on during an action sequence because I feel more immersed in the scene. Thank you again for the educational videos.
Good explanation. For me, chromatic aberration has always communicated mysterious, retro, or 70's vibes. I think it can definitely add to games going for any of those themes
Finally an explanation that makes sense thank you for making this. Also, I think you should make more videos of you making games (other than Ludum Dare) in your free time. I think you can make many games that are worthy for steam :)
the problem that people have with CA is that a lot of games just do chromatic aberration as a circular effect distorting/bluring the edges of the screen or even worse apply it to every surface. that's just a stupid and unnecessary effect. when done right chromatic abberation takes depth information into account and distorts only based on that (think a slight color distortion of the light shimmering though the leafs on a tree or the color distorion sunlight would cause on the edges of far away things such as buildings). another good way to use CA in games is when it's simply tied to a light source (think the color halo around really bright white light for example) or the resulting bouncing of that light source on different surfaces (think light reflecting on water, glass or really bright surfaces and the slight color distortion that produces on the fringes of the reflected light). modern games definetly use these things and they can look realistic and good when done right. but again, simply slaping on a circular filter that blurs and distorts the egdes of your screen is as much needed and therefore disliked as motion blur
Thanks for watching! Yeah, most of the times it feels like CA got slapped on there with the rest (film grain, lens-distortion, vignetting, etc.) without much rhyme or reason.
Thank you for this video it was very helpful I was very confused on why I was seeing the setting in my game of chromatic distortion and did not understand it at all or could not tell the difference so your video was very helpful
NFS Most Wanted and Undercover weren't going for photorealism they were going for near-photorealism, but with movie-like processing specifically, they were trying to do a toned down bleach bypass effect, the whole art direction for the NFS games of the time was directly influenced by film techniques
Some stuff in video games I never even knew I hated until I built a PC and realized system management for shit like that and the fact PC gamers can turn it off. Chromatic aberration, film grain, motion blur, and lens flare unless it’s a game with an atmosphere I think does well with it like metro exodus because of the gas mask. Plus it’s pretty sometimes. Plus I like a super shallow FOV. Enough to not feel like quake or like I’m on a curved TVs that’s 50 feet long. High FOV feels like you’re on lsd and trying to put your keys in your door.
I like when it is applied subtly to areas involving direct sunlight, I find it makes it feel more like real light is bouncing around. Chromatic aberration DOES appear in our day to day life, it is just very subtle unless you go looking for it. Look closely at objects in direct sunlight on a very hot sunny day, and you will notice many things that at a glance appear to be a single color, are in fact, prismatic.
If you wear glasses, it’s very easy to find, if you turn your head while looking at an object, so that object is just barely in your glasses, you’ll see the chromatic aberration very easily.
It really shouldn't be in a game at all for the simple reason some people are sensitive to it. It can cause them pain, tired eyes and many other issues. I have never really noticed it. My son however started saying about certain games that that game makes his eyes tired and he just stopped playing them after a while. I turned off chromatic abberation and he has no "tired eyes" anymore when playing it. I have begun to think that it is affecting me as well because after turning off CA in many games I noticed a real difference in how I was feeling after a long session of gaming. So maybe I was being affected and never knew it or maybe it's my imagination but I'm turning it off from now on in every game I play.
It's the entire into the spidervers3 movie. I honestly thought that I was watching a 3d movie when I first saw it in theaters with the amount of blur it had
I'm guessing this is like Art. When photography was introduced, there was no real need for realistic painting anymore for memory reasons. So artists became more expressive and stylistic. There was even a photography movement that made fun of serious photography (i can't remember the movement, im sorry ;_;) but one of the famous examples was a picture of a toilet. I think once you've gone to the best of the best, its not as special anymore so photographers and game developers just try to find a style or such to become known for? I dunno, this is just my two cents as I'm just guessing 😅🙏💦
i really love chromatic abberation! it makes games to me look mutch bettern then the plane grafic... in fact i love this scenery effects in movies so i like them in games.. maybe i am just old xD an liked movies like aliens where this "visual camera issues" accured ... but anyway :) i love it
It's perfectly fine for still shots, but the thing is, video games are meant to look like they were filmed with highest quality video cameras with none of the chromatic aberration or that sort of crap.
@@jonathanyun7817 different lens materials make a difference, you may want to check what plastic/glass your glasses are made with to minimize it, I get it bad so I have to specify what lenses I want when I get glasses
Excellant video! I'm playing A Plague Tale for the first time and it has an option to turn off C.A. but I quite like it with it on. Haven't seen what it looks like with it off yet but that's my next youtube video, "Chromatic Aberration on and off in A Plague Tale."
