Allow a texture to make a "pseudo" Depth Buffer

For games that don't have access to depth buffer, why not create a sort of "pseudo" depth buffer?
e.g. I would be able to create a texture (much like the ui-mask) and I would be able to tell reshade to use this picture as the depth buffer.

This way, depth related effects such as DOF can be dependent on the picture, instead of the game (which may not have depth buffer access).

Entirely possible, you can do that with ReShade already. But it would probably look weird in most games.

reshade.me/forum/shader-discussion/162-l...v-blog?start=24#5125

Lucifer, or who knows, where is that pseudo-dof? Are you working on it or did I miss it?

Yeah. I could not wrap it up yet cause there was always something else coming up I will see to it

Ohhh, I see haha I was putting my face against the screen and reading everything with attention to see if i ddi miss it lol

Ok, I didin't mean to rush or anything, I only wanted to know. Thank you again ^^

LuciferHawk wrote: Yeah. I could not wrap it up yet cause there was always something else coming up I will see to it

have you tried this with any ao yet ? wondering if it would look weird

As far I know, the current AO algorithms use raw depth data and not linearized values. Those AO algorithms would to be changed.