MartinW opened this issue on Jan 04, 2007 ยท 15 posts
templargfx posted Thu, 04 January 2007 at 5:47 PM
Depth of Field rendering is one of the few things that is immediately noticable as a change in Poser 7.
They have greatly improved the blur algorythm used to blend the pixels of blurred areas, giving a much smoother end look.
Poser 5/6 used a scramble technique, simply jumbling up the pixels.
Poser 7 on the other had, uses a uniform hatching pattern.
This is fantastic when coupled with high pixel samples because the sampling gets more closer results pixel to pixel, where as P5/6 was more of a hit and miss per pixel.
My latest gallery posting uses DOF in Poser 7, this was rendered with a pixel sample of only 5! you will immediately see (if your a P5/6 DOF user) the improvement.
as for speed, test rendering DOF is certainly quicker in P7. final renders though, I couldnt say as my scenes are usually quite intensive.
I have an AMD 2600xp (2ghz) processor and 1 gig of ram. so I think you'll be fine.
TemplarGFX
3D Hobbyist since 1996
I use poser native units