MistyLaraCarrara opened this issue on Jul 30, 2009 · 9 posts
MistyLaraCarrara posted Thu, 30 July 2009 at 9:43 AM
but, those fuzzies along the background edges, there has to be a way to improve that?
thanks.
cheers!
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hborre posted Thu, 30 July 2009 at 10:27 AM
Yes, there is a way to improve the quality of the DoF. Set your render settings for Pixel Sampling to 15. It will increase your render time but the DoF will sharpen considerably.
replicand posted Thu, 30 July 2009 at 11:41 AM
Like Hborre says, increasing your pixel samples will smooth the image at the expense of render time (but it will look awesome). I'm a big fan of larger apertures / smaller f-stops for really dramatic DoF.
MistyLaraCarrara posted Thu, 30 July 2009 at 12:39 PM
Have you ever maxed out the pixels?
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replicand posted Thu, 30 July 2009 at 12:48 PM
Theoretically there would be no limit to the amount of sample you could take but I'd say 20-25 would be the practical limit where you would notice no difference in quality.
As Hborre suggests, start at 15 and increase until you get the smoothness you're looking for.
R_Hatch posted Fri, 31 July 2009 at 6:23 AM
Or render out a non-antialiased zbuffer image and use DOF Pro with Photoshop/Paint Shop Pro/etc. This method also gives you the added advantage of being able to interactively choose a focal point after the render is done.
MistyLaraCarrara posted Fri, 31 July 2009 at 10:38 AM
It won't render a higher pixel sample to save it's life.
I did learn from my night of Depth Fuzzies,
when Vista crashes Poser during a render, the FFrender.exe keeps on running.
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MistyLaraCarrara posted Fri, 31 July 2009 at 10:40 AM
If only there was a 'render to disk' option, like Bryce has.
I was watching TaskManager before the crash, a highlight line was bouncing between Poser.exe and FFrender.exe.
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ima70 posted Fri, 31 July 2009 at 12:44 PM
When I need depth of field I use this way:
www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/dof_tutorial.html
Way faster than the slow Poser option (or try DazStudio 3 one that's really fast, hope SM "fix" this in Poser 8)