See i told you i would stick to doing simple things in bryce.

Could someone that has some experience with the DOF controls please help me with this. I would like to have it set so everything behind my little beauty is blurred but she isn't. I can't seem to get the correct setting for the DOF without blurring her.

Thanks
CD

EDIT: PS, please remember i don't have PS. I do post work in MS Paint until i can get the hang of using paint.net.

Message edited on: 03/13/2005 22:16

Okay, this is simple. First, you select her head. Then, go into the DOF settings and click on "set to current" or something similar to that. That SHOULD set your background blurry and your lady crisp, and you can mess around with the lens setting to change the amount of blurry you get.

Have you selected her and then clicked on the "Set to current selection" button? If she's still too blurred, try smaller increments (lowest available is .01, I think) and test render on low settings (4) until she's not blurred. Then the final should be rendered at about 64 rpp to make it look less grainy.

crosspost. :^)

If you put the focus on her head the nose and ear are at different distances so one or the other may blur slightly. Just a guess but you might try putting a small sphere in the middle of her head, obviously small enough that it can't be seen. Select the sphere then in render options set the focal length to the current selection. It'll probably come closest to focusing on the midline of the head. On the other hand...as I type that... The eyes are probably where you want to tightest focus so... Select the eyeball...the one with the tear. Again, in render options set focal length to the current selection.

lol...multiple crosses

It's just because we all rock at giving advice.

Dang, we're all so freakin' helpful. :^)

Ok here is the image with some work done with the DOF settings. I took all of your advices and then using what Claymor said i placed two spheres at points that i thought might help. One was near the ear and the other was toward the back of the head. I then chose them and they eyes for the main focal legnth and the lens radius was left on 0.10. Comments welcome CD

CrazyDawg, do you have Photoshop or Paintshop Pro? If so, just do a mask render, and use the mask to select the sky only, then apply some blur. It's nearly infinitely faster, and gives you real controls over the results.

/me grabs LSD by the ear. He then drags LSD over to his first post and pointing to the EDIT section while glaring at LSD he asks in a deep voice, can you read boy ;)

LOL@CD Nice work! (Beats LSD over the head with a wet kipper)

I didn't know we did Kipling here..;)

As an alternative to DOF. Place a box (or 2d plane, but I don't trust anything that doesn't exist sideways) behind the head. Scale it up until it covers the background, then smash it flat again. (The box should face the camera, I forgot to mention that.) Go into the material lab and set all the colors to white and all the number to 0. Make it 100% transparent. We're going to use Blurry Transmissions here, so adjust the specular highlight to something. (The whiter, the blurrier, might want to start at 127RGB and adjust from there.) Under render settings turn on Blurry Transmissons, set the RPP low for some test render. Test render. Fiddle with the specular highlight until happy. (Might also try fiddling with the depth of the box, I don't know if it matters, but it'd be fun.)

Aye, I sincerely apologize, CrazyDawg! I should have paid closer attention... (takes his beatings with a wry grin!)

(moves quickly away from LSD who now smells of wet fish..)