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General => Terragen Discussion => Topic started by: mhaze on May 31, 2019, 05:17:49 AM

Title: Depth of field
Post by: mhaze on 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.
Title: Re: Depth of field
Post by: Dune on May 31, 2019, 07:06:37 AM
Set DOF in render: quality tab, and then in camera you have to set blur settings.
Title: Re: Depth of field
Post by: mhaze on May 31, 2019, 08:50:14 AM
Thanks, Dune.
Title: Re: Depth of field
Post by: WAS on May 31, 2019, 12:10:42 PM
Default DoF blur is very subtle
Title: Re: Depth of field
Post by: Oshyan on 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
Title: Re: Depth of field
Post by: Dune on 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.
Title: Re: Depth of field
Post by: 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. :)
Title: Re: Depth of field
Post by: bobbystahr on 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.
Title: Re: Depth of field
Post by: WAS on 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*
Title: Re: Depth of field
Post by: Oshyan on 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