[Bf-committers] Better approaches to Defocus?

[François T.]

I guess I'm just one of those who like to keep things seperated and when I'm
looking for a vblur who finds a vblur node and not a defocus node which as a
vblur capability. Just a design thing. but again just my opinion so not a
big issue :D

2011/6/28 michael williamson <michaelw at cowtoolsmedia.co.uk>

> 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>
> >
> >> 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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