[Bf-committers] DOF camera parameters.

[Jonathan Merritt]

Hi Cam,

> About implimenting DOF in blenders renderer-
>
> This could be done the same way as motion blur
> rendering the same image from different positions and then mixing them.


You're right!  It would be quite easy to add another loop, *inside* the 
mblur loop for each frame.  It'd make combining DOF and mblur a lengthy 
process though.  Can you imagine the rendering time required for 16x16 
frames?! :-]

I could have a go at doing this if there's much interest - it'd probably 
take me only a day or two, given the amount of time I've spent ploughing 
through the internals of Blender's renderer over the last few weeks.  I 
could follow the existing reported techniques and do a single lap of the 
circle of confusion.

If there is interest in this sort of thing, I could create a patch of 
the required changes against either the existing Tuhopuu or BF-Blender 
and submit it quite quickly.

> Also- an autofocus system would be cool too.


I'm not clear what you mean by this exactly.  Relating back to 
real-world cameras, I'm guessing you mean that you could provide some 
kind of button that allows you to select a point in the scene, and the 
focal distance would be set to the value of the distance to the object 
at the selected point.

In principle, something like that should be very simple.  I'm not sure 
how to go about implementing it though.  It would probably require 
relying on the OpenGL implementation to be able to query a depth value.

Jonathan Merritt.