Fog

Tints distant surfaces with a color and creates depth.

No fog
No fog
With fog
With fog

The Fog section blends the fog color into every surface according to its distance from the camera. Up close nothing changes; far away the color takes over. It is the cheapest way to give a shot depth and to separate what is in front from what is behind.

Controls

  • Enable fog: Turns the fog on.
  • Color: The color everything moves toward with distance. A gray blue reads as air on a clear day; a warm tone reads as dust or late afternoon.
  • Start: The distance, in meters, where the fog starts to show. Before that the image is untouched.
  • End: The distance where the surface has fully taken the fog color.

How to use it

Put the start right behind the main object and the end a little past the farthest point, so the whole range fits inside the shot. If the fog does not show up, it is almost always because what is open spans only a few meters and the start was set too far.

Fog acts on geometry, not on the background. For the image to hold together, pick a fog color close to the background in use on the environment page.