DocMatter opened this issue on May 04, 2016 ยท 10 posts
DocMatter posted Wed, 04 May 2016 at 8:33 AM
I've been trying to play with the DOF settings in PP2014 lately and it's worked great... until today. Suddenly, the "crosshairs" of the camera aren't showing up when I try and adjust the Focal Distance of the camera. Depth of Field is turned on in the Render settings, I'm looking at the camera settings for the actual camera I'm using, but no matter how much I adjust the Focal Distance, the crosshairs aren't showing up so I have no idea where the camera is actually focusing. I've tried several different cameras... closed and re-opened the program and file... but nothing. Any suggestions?
Kalypso posted Wed, 04 May 2016 at 9:03 AM Site Admin
Try viewing your scene in a 3 or 4 port view from the bottom left of your Preview window. You can actually get a better feel of positioning from that.
DocMatter posted Wed, 04 May 2016 at 2:08 PM
Tried that, but the crosshairs still aren't showing up in any view.
IsaoShi posted Wed, 04 May 2016 at 2:43 PM
Does it show up if you switch it on permanently? (Menu --> Display --> Guides --> Focus Distance Guide)
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IsaoShi posted Wed, 04 May 2016 at 2:52 PM
I actually use a script instead of the focus guide, which can sometimes be difficult to position correctly. The script tells you the distance between the current camera and any selected actor, so you can set the correct focus distance without using the guide. (Python Scripts window --> Render / IO --> Calc DoF Focal Distance).
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what I should be."
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Murakami)
DocMatter posted Wed, 04 May 2016 at 7:36 PM
Tried the permanent thing and it appeared for a second but then disappeared as soon as I tried moving it. And when I run the script, it gives me a distance of 0.0, which I know is wrong. Sigh!
DocMatter posted Wed, 04 May 2016 at 7:52 PM
Whoops! Got the script working. Thanks!
bagginsbill posted Thu, 05 May 2016 at 7:32 AM
Not saying this is it, but in the past, I had iterations of my graphics driver that borked the focus distance control.
"Suddenly, the "crosshairs" of the camera aren't showing up" sounds a lot like "suddenly I let Windows update my display driver".
Try switching your preview to SreeD and if the crosshairs show fine, you have a video driver problem.
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DocMatter posted Thu, 05 May 2016 at 4:13 PM
Not a driver problem, but it seems my problem isn't happening in all pz3 files. I've opened up several other Poser files, and the DoF works fine, but in this one file (so far) I got nothing. Weird! And as far as I can tell, there are no special settings or figures in the scene either.
IsaoShi posted Thu, 05 May 2016 at 5:34 PM
