Guide to Game Development/Settings/Graphical

General

• Reset all options
  • Button with "are you sure?" menu

• Textures
  • Texture Quality
    • Low - Extreme
  • Texture Filtering Quality
    • Low - High

• Particles
  • Low - Extreme

• Character models (polygon count)
  • Tessellation
  • Textures

• Field of view
  • 100 is 'normal'
  • Less than 100 is 'zoomed out'
  • Greater than 100 is 'zoomed in'

• Brightness
• Shadow quality
• Screen space reflection
• Depth-of-field quality
• Contact hardening shadows
• Reflections
• Motion blur
• Render Distance
  • Slider about how much
• Water quality
  • Still animation (for low end computers)
  • Polygons count
  • Animated water textures?

Occlusion

Ambient occlusion

Parallax occlusion quality

• Used to make surfaces look more 3D
• Alpha mapping

Ambient occlusion

• MHBAO
  • Standard, better than having no ambient occlusion
• HBAO
  • Higher quality than MHBAO
• SSAO
  • Screen space ambient occlusion
  • Some people don't like this and would prefer not to have it

Anti-aliasing

Anti-Aliasing

• SSAA
  • Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing
    • Resolves colours
      • Example: (White + White + White + Green)/4 = Light Lime
• MSAA
  • Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing
• FXAA
  • Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing
  • A lot of people prefer not to use this
• TXAA / Temporal Anti-Aliasing
  • Nvidia GPUs only
• SMAA
  • Minimizes the distortion artifacts known as aliasing when representing a high-resolution image at a lower resolution
• Spatial anti-aliasing