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Hey guys,

First time poster here so please forgive any poor etiquette on my part. Not sure if this has ever been addressed but basically here is my question. I am trying to apply a blur effect on an entire scene in Xpression Studio SCE. My goal is to give the feeling of a Standard Definition from the 90's. The problem I am having is that Ross Xpression has too crisp lines and it doesn't give the desired "aged" effect, if you will.

Any support on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Interesting. You could use a render view in another scene. So you would create a second scene with a full screen quad and apply a renderview material - the camera view from the first scene.

You could tweak the renderview settings to see if you can get the desired effect - like setting the resolution really low, maybe? I don't know. There are effects you can apply to objects, but in my experience they don't really work the way you expect them to, and are REALLY expensive in rendering time. I wanted to blur my reflections in my scene, and went out of real time, even on a simple scene.

I'm going to try this, though, it's an interesting problem to try to tackle.

EDIT: so I went ahead and tried this. If you set the Render View layer resolution to something really low - like 320x180, or 280x270, you get a pretty crappy view of the scene (the desired effect). I tried using Gaussian blur, set only to 3 radius, but it does use a LOT of rendering time to do it, so you may get the results you want from just using a really low resolution Render View without an effect applied.
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