Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Oh python GODS! Is it possible.....

shadownet opened this issue on Nov 21, 2004 ยท 134 posts


softriver posted Wed, 24 November 2004 at 9:30 AM

@Shadownet- If you could do me the kindness of posting the position of the mirror, and the bearded cupid figure, I'd appreciate it. Your render has sparked me with a strange idea, and I was wondering if Poser has the internals to pull it off. (i.e. What if the reflected image is in the focus area, but the reflected object is not?) Maybe I'm making things more complex than they are, but it seems like there are a lot of factors on how the reflected image would display in ray-tracing versus real life. (i.e. Does Poser use the distance from the mirror to the camera to determine the focal length, or does it use the length of the ray (object to mirror to camera) to make that determination?) Looking at your image, I think Poser uses the length of the ray, but it's hard to see clearly. On the larger hi-res version, look in the background of the mirror, behind the short fat guy. Is the background blurry? @Bushi - I've been having trouble with the focal distance spreading out all along the x-axis as well. It's really confusing me. In real life, there should be a sphere around the camera lens with radius=focal length. But with Poser, it's just a flat plane running perpendicular to the vector described by the camera's facing. This is a serious limitation in certain types of images, but maybe it can be put to good use in another way?