Blur effect problems

[horacebury]

aaaaaand… one last request:

How would I replicate the iOS7 Control Center effect, also seen in Yahoo’s latest Weather app?

I thought the filters could be applied to display groups.

[walter]

Filter effects cannot be applied to groups. You can, however, apply them to snapshots

[jonjonsson]

@walter

There’s a blurGaussian effect, but there’s a bug in it in DP 2/Alpha 2.

In the next update, the syntax will look like:

object.fill.effect = “filter.blurGaussian”

object.fill.effect.horizontal.radius = 2

object.fill.effect.vertical.radius = 2

The gaussian blur operates in a multipass fashion (a horizontal and vertical pass) so you have to set the radius for each path, or you could set them to different values.

I’m trying this syntax and no matter the value there is an extreme amount of blur and no change if I changen the radius.

[lua]local object = display.newImageRect(“test.jpg”, _W, _H)

object.fill.effect = “filter.blurGaussian”

local amount = 10

object.fill.effect.horizontal.radius = amount

object.fill.effect.vertical.radius = amount

[/lua]

Looks like this, no matter the amount specified: 

Photoshop same image with 10 radius:

Same problem with 

[lua]object.fill.effect = “filter.blurHorizontal”

local amount = 1

object.fill.effect.radius = amount[/lua]

Same horizontal blur no matter what amount.

Edit: Daily build 103