Enabling DepthField Shaders and Testing Camera Focus

Activating the Pack in Video Settings

To use DepthField Shaders in game, make sure you are running Minecraft with a shader loader such as Iris or OptiFine and have the pack placed inside your shaderpacks folder. Load into a world, press Escape, and open Options followed by Video Settings. Open the Shaders or Shader Packs submenu, click DepthField Shaders in the list, and confirm your selection so the game reloads its graphics. Because this pack keeps the original colors and lighting of the base game untouched, loading finishes quickly and your world will retain its standard vanilla brightness and sky colors.

Confirming the Focus Effect Works

When you first look out across an open landscape, your screen may appear completely unchanged. Do not assume the shader failed to activate. DepthField Shaders specifically blurs the background when you look at an object up close. To test that it is working, walk right up to a nearby block, tree trunk, or passive mob and aim the center of your screen directly at it. Keep your view centered on that close surface while glancing at the terrain behind it—the distant scenery will soften into a smooth camera-lens blur while the block right in front of you remains sharp.