Any new news on DOF

[taprice]

I am curious if there is anything new out that does depth of field. I like the results of the standard Max camera DOF but one big renders who can wait for all those passes. I've tried Mental Ray's DOF and like those results also but I don't use it in my daily workflow. I am currently playing with PShop to fake it in but it seems to be more work with so-so results. I did find info about the X Dof plugin and may try to pick it up but there is no demo so I'm not sure how well it will work. So any new plug-ins out there or is X Dof the way to go if you really want a program to do it for ya.

 

Thanks for the direction...

 

Tim

[vertexART]

hi there,

if U are already playing with PhotoShop, try rendering out a 'Z-depth' pass from Max. That will create a grayscale mask based on object's distance from the cam... so then U use it in PS as a blurring mask.

U may need to tweak the element pass a bit, but it doesn't have many params and it's straight forward.

 

Hope it helps

Cheers