Hi,

I have noticed that if you turn on DOF in your Render Settings, thescene seems to take a few thousand millennia to render, and that the out-of-focus parts seem more fuzzy than blurred.

(1) What steps can you take to ensure that a scene with DOF renders more quickly?
(2) How can you make the scene less "fuzzy" ?

Note that I am NOT looking for a postwork solution (so please don't suggest it). I am looking for better techniques within Poser itself.

thanks,
Andrew

Nothing with poser, prendre son mal en patience comme on dit ;)

The fuzziness is corrected by increasing the number of pixels samples.  Generally, anything above 10 will give you better results, however the render time will suffer.  To control DoF, use the DoF guide to target the area for optimal sharpness, then set your camera aperture to the desired f-stop for the sharpness range.  The higher the aperture value, the greater the sharpness range; the lower the aperture value, the shallower the sharpness range.  The link below is an example of DoF:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1982426&user_id=343328&np&np

Is there a good tutorial for DoF in Poser?  Thanks.

http://my.smithmicro.com/tutorials/2297.html

I've found that the more blurred the out of focus areas are (lower f-stops?) the longer the renders. It also choked on dynamic hair, but that's to be expected I guess.

Seems faster in PP2012.