agiel opened this issue on Dec 28, 2001 ยท 8 posts
agiel posted Fri, 28 December 2001 at 12:56 PM
Well... I tried to use vaseline on the camera but all it did was to mess up my keyboard and blur my monitor :) More seriously.. the trick applies the vaseline screen / bumpy glass to what is available in Vue. A full tutorial will follow... for now, here is a quick summary : 1- Place your camera inside a sphere 2- Give the sphere a simple glass material. 3- Adjust the refraction of the glass to tune the distortion of the glass. Add some bump if you want... I kept mine smooth. 4- Edit transparencies of the material. I set 'blurred transparencies' to (1'). Select 'Variable transparencies' and edit the transparency function (I took 'pitted surface' int the 'bumps' directory). 5- Next to the black and white preview of variable transparency, you have a filter for 'transparency' and a filter for 'blur'. First adjust the 'transparency' filter to select which area of the image you want to blur. By default, transparent areas will be blurred and opaque areas will be sharp. 6- When you are satisfied, copy the 'transparency' filter (right click menu -> copy) and paste it into the 'blur' filter (right click meny -> paste). 7- Edit the 'transparency' filter function (right click menu again -> edit) and set the filter to a maximum saturation. 8- This should disable the transparency and leave you with only the variable blur. It took me a while to get the exact effect I wanted but that was worth it. Have fun...