I am at a loss about getting depth of field to work for android test level deployment...

[Bernessas]

Hi.
I started using Unreal about a week ago. I am planning to port over from Unity with a project that I have been developing for around 3 years. I had to learn modelling, texturing and everything else from scratch so if I am not very good at technical stuff, please bear with me.
My background is in film so everything I do has to in some way correspond to the vision I have in my mind. For this particular project it is essential to have depth of field. I have studied the documentation on unreal engine rendering capabilities and building for Android... I think my settings are correct, but for some reason depth of field never works in the levels that I deploy to my phone for testing.
I am working on a late 2014 Macbook pro Retina with Unreal engine 4 version 4.21.1.
The phone that I deploy to is a Samsung S8 plus.
Can someone please help me to get this working...?

[Naitguolf]

Just in case, I had similar problem with no DoF working on mobile, it was because the mobile profile:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/deve...f-android-4-19

[Bernessas]

Thank you very much... I will try that tomorrow...:-)

[Bernessas]

Just in case, I had similar problem with no DoF working on mobile, it was because the mobile profile:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/deve...f-android-4-19

Hi Naitguolf. Can you please tell me specifically what to do? I have been trying and tweaking all morning and it still isn't working.

[Naitguolf]

Hi.

Go to \ProjectName\Config

Open DefaultDeviceProfiles.ini

add this file (or edit to match)

+CVars=r.DepthOfFieldQuality=1

Regards

[Bernessas]

Thank you very much...:-) I will let you know when I have success...

[Bernessas]

Hi anyone...
I have not had any success with this yet. All other post processing effects work, except the one I want the most. I have enabled depth of field on all of the device profiles that I could and still it is non existent when I deploy a level to my phone. The documentation is also confusing, or else I am a bit slow... I have no idea how to know, or specify which device profile to use when deploying my level. This is driving my crazy. Please help me.

[Naitguolf]

I dont know what might be, but also, remember, Mobile Tonemapper must be disabled in the post processing settings. Only GaussianDOF is working (at least for me).

Also in order to know the Profile loaded, you can use Get Active Device Profile Name function. It will tell you if you are using MED or LOW profile (those profiles will not have the DoF available)

[Bernessas]

Ok thanks... I will look into this as well...

[kojakalex]

I faced the same problem, but after following the documentation I got it to work
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/...ods/index.html

The mobile film tonemapper can be enabled or disabled, I tried it both ways and it doesn't matter, at least for ES3. What I was missing was enabling the scale property of the DOF and increasing the number, this is required when using Gaussian blur which is what is used on mobile.

Hope this helps someone.