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The people have spoken: Motion blur is the worst
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Ingame Motion Blur is not the same as your eyes blur. Two totally difference subjects.
It's like talking about the ingredients of a cake: "I already have sugar in my tea, I don't need sugar in the cake too!"
But I don't put sugar in my tea
Doesn't matter for the metaphor.
i mean i started drinking coffee black so i could take sugar out of one specific area of my diet (sugary drinks) and add it back in another area (candy. what's your favorite?). I think it ended up being a net reduction.
so like people (okay !<1 person) actually think the way your metaphor is.
It literally is. When im looking at the screen and move my eyea across it, my eyes blur. When i pan the camera, my eyes blur. Do not double blur my game.
It does not blur the same way ingame blurs. First this is not motion blur of the subject, its blur because your eyes move. This is different. Don't forget you have a brain too, which blurs things differently than what you just see. For motion blur, it depends how fast it moves and how close is it to the viewer. When you look on a screen, then you look at a single surface without depth information for your eyes and brain. And as explained in the other comments the subject your eyes look at stays still. The subject does not have any motion.
The blur you get from little movement looking at a screen that does not move is completely different from ingame motion blur that selectively activates motion blur on the scenery.
Regardless: i dont want it to happen.
Then don't use it. I just explained to you why your statement was wrong. Nobody forces you to use an option.
It's not double blurring your game. Programmers can decide which part should be blurred in what strength selectively. Exactly because your eyes and brain blur in real world, the game tries to simulate the effects of blur too. In example in a racing game to get sense of speed, it can blur parts of the ground in example. If you play a racing game, your eyes do not blur the image. So its not blurred twice.
Overall its not the exact same, but it tries to simulate it like we try to simulate light in games as well.