Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: z-depth anti aliasing?

ghostship2 opened this issue on Feb 03, 2014 · 9 posts

ghostship2 posted Mon, 03 February 2014 at 9:02 PM

nasty jaggys from z-depth map ruining my photoshop lens blur. Any thoughts on a trick to fix this other than running the map through gaussian blur beforehand?

W10, Ryzen 5 1600x, 16Gb,RTX2060Super+GTX980, PP11, 11.3.740

parrotdolphin posted Mon, 03 February 2014 at 9:31 PM

I was having that problem too. Then I tried rendering with post filter size = 3 and post filter type = sinc and it helped a lot.

ghostship2 posted Mon, 03 February 2014 at 9:35 PM

thanks, I'll try that!

W10, Ryzen 5 1600x, 16Gb,RTX2060Super+GTX980, PP11, 11.3.740

parrotdolphin posted Mon, 03 February 2014 at 9:43 PM

Sure! I love that z-depth. It's fun to play with. You can adjust the levels on it in Photoshop too, to adjust how much blur you get.

ghostship2 posted Tue, 04 February 2014 at 2:52 PM

messing with post filter size didn't work. So What I did was doubled the render size and lowered all the render settings. 5 min render and the z-depth map is a lot cleaner. bring it into photoshop and reduce its size and much better result!

W10, Ryzen 5 1600x, 16Gb,RTX2060Super+GTX980, PP11, 11.3.740

aldebaran40 posted Tue, 04 February 2014 at 3:28 PM

I charge the z-depth map as selection in PS (copy z-depth map , go to the image layer , select quick mask mode and paste ) and then perfected the edge as I desire ("Refine Edge" I think it's the command in English) , works perfect for me

ghostship2 posted Tue, 04 February 2014 at 3:56 PM

Quote - I charge the z-depth map as selection in PS (copy z-depth map , go to the image layer , select quick mask mode and paste ) and then perfected the edge as I desire ("Refine Edge" I think it's the command in English) , works perfect for me

 

Sounds good.Ill lok into that too. I'm using CS5

W10, Ryzen 5 1600x, 16Gb,RTX2060Super+GTX980, PP11, 11.3.740

Paul Francis posted Fri, 07 February 2014 at 12:40 PM

There's a very good Python script at RDNA called "Advanced Render Settings" by Semideu.  It produces a ZDepth render which is far superior to the native Poser one in that it is antialiased and can also handle transparent texture maps.  The ZDepth render is in fact only one tiny aspect of this plugin, it will revolutionise the way you use Poser - get it, you won't be disapointed and if you make a lot of use of ZDepth renders it's indispensible.  I use it every day, the best $19.99 I ever spent for my CG work.

My self-build system - Vista 64 on a Kingston 240GB SSD, Asus P5Q Pro MB, Quad 6600 CPU, 8 Gb Geil Black Dragon Ram, CoolerMaster HAF932 full tower chassis, EVGA Geforce GTX 750Ti Superclocked 2 Gb, Coolermaster V8 CPU aircooler, Enermax 600W Modular PSU, 240Gb SSD, 2Tb HDD storage, 28" LCD monitor, and more red LEDs than a grown man really needs.....I built it in 2008 and can't afford a new one, yet.....!

My Software - Poser Pro 2012, Photoshop, Bryce 6 and Borderlands......"Catch a  r--i---d-----e-----!"

 

ghostship2 posted Fri, 07 February 2014 at 1:07 PM

Quote - There's a very good Python script at RDNA called "Advanced Render Settings" by Semideu.  It produces a ZDepth render which is far superior to the native Poser one in that it is antialiased and can also handle transparent texture maps.  The ZDepth render is in fact only one tiny aspect of this plugin, it will revolutionise the way you use Poser - get it, you won't be disapointed and if you make a lot of use of ZDepth renders it's indispensible.  I use it every day, the best $19.99 I ever spent for my CG work.

That sounds great! I will check it out. Thank you!

 

W10, Ryzen 5 1600x, 16Gb,RTX2060Super+GTX980, PP11, 11.3.740