[Bf-committers] Better approaches to Defocus?

[michael williamson]

And my proposal changes that how?

On 28/06/11 21:14, François T. wrote:
> yeah it's just you can have other purpose of VB which is not related to
> Mblur or dof.
>
> 2011/6/28 michael williamson<michaelw at cowtoolsmedia.co.uk>
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>> In general I agree, I love the group node stuff, but when both node
>> types are sortof related and need the zbuffer as input and essentially
>> destroy it making it unusable for the other it seems to make a lot of
>> sense to combine in this case.
>>
>> You could have 3 separate nodes... dof, vector blur and both... or it
>> could be a single node with 3 modes... it needn't be cluttered or have
>> any extra overhead for the unused stuff...
>>
>> Dof and motion blur are extremely common things to use together the user
>> shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get them to play nice...
>>
>> I guess there's an argument for shipping a library of node groups too...
>> but that's another topic.
>>
>> On 28/06/11 20:02, François T. wrote:
>>> yeah and if you only need one of them, you get an other complicated node
>> for
>>> nothing. With nice grouping system and precomp, and better UI as well,
>> you
>>> can manage a clean not too complicated node setup.
>>> I believe the new group system is a step in that direction, still need a
>> bit
>>> more work though but since it is much more customizable, you can hide
>> some
>>> crazy setup and just bring the needed value at the top of your node. I
>> think
>>> that's the spirit rather than having one big node which does everything
>> and
>>> nothing at the same time
>>>
>>> just my opinion though
>>>
>>> F
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/6/28 michael williamson<michaelw at cowtoolsmedia.co.uk>
>>>
>>>> On 28/06/11 17:41, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com wrote:
>>>>> glitches, it's all glitches! how i'd love some good dof and vblur
>> nodes:)
>>>>> Daniel Salazar
>>>>> 3Developer.com
>>>>>
>>>> Even better would be a unified DOF/Vblur node so you can have both
>>>> together without overcomplicating teh node setups! Currently they're
>>>> pretty incompatible!
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