EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS – Disable Depth of Field/Motion Blur Guide

EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS – Disable Depth of Field/Motion Blur Guide 1 - steamlists.com
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS – Disable Depth of Field/Motion Blur Guide 1 - steamlists.com
This covers getting eye cancer off your screen, plus some other functionality.

 
 

Foreword:

 
I know you’re here to go fix stuff immediately, but I wanted to say two quick things: 
 
This is generally applicable to other Unreal games, so you can take this and apply it elsewhere. 
 
Besides that, I recommend you have notepad-plus-plus.org – https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/ installed and that’s the tool we’re going to be using. You can use regular Notepad for this, but Notepad++ is just so much nicer for these purposes, it’s free, and you probably should’ve already had it installed on your computer if you didn’t already anyway – it’s just that useful. 
 
 

Find your Config Files

 
The first step here for the uninitiated is finding your config files. You’re looking for this folder: 
 
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\EDFWB\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor 
 
Where “%USERPROFILE%” is the name of your user profile on Windows. For example, in my case the file path is: 
 
C:\Users\Broadsword\AppData\Local\EDFWB\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor 
 
Once you’re there – and forgive me for using a deprecated version of Windows – you should be confronted with a folder with different config files that looks like this:EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS - Disable Depth of Field/Motion Blur Guide 
 
Fun fact: that was probably the most difficult part of this whole thing. 
 
From here you’re typically going to be interested in two particular files where you can do the majority of the tweaks: 
 
Engine.ini 
GameUserSettings.ini 
 
 

Disable Depth of Field

 
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS - Disable Depth of Field/Motion Blur Guide - Disable Depth of Field 
 
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS - Disable Depth of Field/Motion Blur Guide 
 
Left: Depth of Fieldon; Right: Depth of Fieldoff 
 
Open up the Engine.ini file, it should be pretty sparse: 
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS - Disable Depth of Field/Motion Blur Guide 
 
The changes we’re going to make here are pretty simple. Simply add the below anywhere underneath the pre-existing lines. 
 

[SystemSettings] r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0 r.DepthOfField.MaxSize=0

 
So that should look like this: 
 
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS - Disable Depth of Field/Motion Blur Guide 
 
Then simply save, load up EDF, and Depth of Field should be disabled. 
 
If that didn’t work for any reason (or perhaps you’re finaggling another Unreal game that’s got DoF issues, who knows), the solution is to open up GameUserSettings.ini and inside, find [ScalabilityGroups], in my case this looks like this: 
 
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS - Disable Depth of Field/Motion Blur Guide 
 
Underneath that, add this: 
 

r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0 r.DistanceFieldAO=0

 
In which case, that should work, but should be unnecessary. 
 
 

Disable Bloom & Lens Flair

 
HezaK had an issue with the effects on Mission 13 which were pretty seizure inducing. If you have a similar problem, these changes can reduce that effect. 
 
Although I have a fairly similar graphics card, I can’t report similar circumstances. The cutscene in particular is the one seen gfycat.com – https://gfycat.com/mediocredearblackbird, so if you have any problems, it’s likely to be present on this mission with this cutscene in particular. 
 
Bloom 
 
Add the below in Engine.ini under [SystemSettings] 
 

r.BloomQuality=0

 
Lens Flare 
 
Second verse, same the first: Engine.ini under [SystemSettings] 
 

r.LensFlareQuality=0

 
 
 

Disable Motion Blur & More

 
Motion Blur 
 
I’m not gonna lie, I don’t see it, but if it does somehow bug you, we’re back to Engine.ini and in this case adding another line underneath [SystemSettings]: 
 

r.MotionBlur.Max=0

 
Chromatic Abberation 
 
I’m not really seeing this again, but hey, who am I to tell you what is and isn’t eye cancer. Similar to Motion Blur, this goes under [SystemSettings] in the same Engine.ini file. 
 

r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0

 
Enabling or disabling this has very little impact as far as I can see. 
 
& More 
 
I don’t actually know what all works with EDF because I haven’t been messing with it that much, but if you’re looking for other things to try out here, the actual docs.unrealengine.com – https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/TestingAndOptimization/PerformanceAndProfiling/Scalability/ScalabilityReference/ is a good place to start. 
 
Not all of these things are configured in a way that you can edit them easily even from config files – sometimes something works, sometimes it doesn’t. 
 
 

Help! I did [something wrong]…

 
You may have noticed that if you add the lines to disable depth of field, for example, it doesn’t necessarily go away if you delete that line, save the file, and load the game up again. 
 
If you did anything that messed with stuff too much, the best way to solve that is to delete the entire file that you edited, launch the game, and it should reset to default. 
 
Do I recommend making back-ups? More of the files you’ve edited that you may want to keep in the future. Otherwise, it should be largely unnecessary as per the above: just delete the file if it goes wrong and the game will populate the folder with another on the next launch. 
 
 

Have something to add?

 
Might as well make this thing a full tweak guide, but since that requires experimentation and finding out whether or not things work, that’s best left up to anyone who’s wanting to contribute additional info. 
 
Go ahead and either hit me up in the comments if there’s anything that you feel should be added or rectified. 
 

Written by Broadsword

This is all about EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS – Disable Depth of Field/Motion Blur Guide; I hope you enjoy reading the Guide! If you feel like we should add more information or we forget/mistake, please let us know via commenting below, and thanks! See you soon!
 
 
 
 


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