Visual Settings
Visual Settings
These settings relate to visual effects in PC games. Post-FX adds post-processing enhancements like lighting and color grading. Soft Shadows improves shadow quality for a more realistic look. Tesselation enhances texture detail by using tessellation technology. Increasing these options can boost visual fidelity but may also impact performance, potentially slowing down the game if enabled excessively.
Tessellation refers to breaking down shapes into smaller pieces on a model, allowing adjustments in polygon numbers for more or fewer details. Soft shadowing sets the stage for clearer shadow edges when higher resolution is used. Post-process effects influence visual quality by improving lighting and shading clarity. Performance can be tested by tweaking settings to find the balance between appearance and speed. Using Frap will help gauge how resource usage changes as you progress through scenes.
Post-FX typically involves techniques such as Bloom, FXAA, and HDR-like enhancements. Soft Shadows gently cover shadow edges to avoid sharpness. Shadows maintain a softer appearance rather than matching the main subject. They fade gradually near light sources, mimicking natural transitions. Tesselation is a method used in programming to enrich surface details, often producing highly realistic textures.
Also important to note is that in-game tessellation enhances an object's geometry using a world displacement map. Tessellation mimics what Parallax Mapping simulates. Parallax Mapping hides geometry to create the illusion of finer detail despite less data. Tessellation, on the other hand, actually introduces that extra detail. Post-FX refers to post-processing effects applied after rendering, such as Bloom, anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, and depth of field.