Depth of field

mhaze · May 31, 2019, 05:17:49 AM

How do I get DOF in Terragen! I've tried all the usual photographic settings but I'm missing something.

Dune · May 31, 2019, 07:06:37 AM

Set DOF in render: quality tab, and then in camera you have to set blur settings.

mhaze · May 31, 2019, 08:50:14 AM

Thanks, Dune.

WAS · May 31, 2019, 12:10:42 PM

Default DoF blur is very subtle

Oshyan · June 01, 2019, 02:19:35 AM

Also helpful to use the DoF preview button on the 3D preview, though depending on settings it doesn't always help a lot due to it being binary, i.e. on or off (it doesn't show you the falloff).

- Oshyan

Dune · June 01, 2019, 04:18:11 AM

It would help a great deal if that system could be different; a way to show what is say 95-100% sharp and what will be out of focus.

René · June 01, 2019, 04:38:47 AM

Yeah, that would be great indeed. A low-res preview would be even better; now it's a matter of trial and error and given the fact that depth of field is not very fast to render it's very time consuming.

bobbystahr · June 01, 2019, 03:17:29 PM

Quote from: René on June 01, 2019, 04:38:47 AM
Yeah, that would be great indeed. A low-res preview would be even better; now it's a matter of trial and error and given the fact that depth of field is not very fast to render it's very time consuming.

agree on all points.

WAS · June 02, 2019, 12:53:10 PM

It'd also be really nice if the overlay changed colours representing a foreground DoF or background DoF. Currently you just got trial and error.

Granted possibly if I understood focals better I'd probably know. *shrugs*

Oshyan · June 02, 2019, 11:07:52 PM

I agree it could be better. Perhaps we'll have actual DoF preview in the RTP at some point, should be a lot easier to implement than in the old preview.

- Oshyan