[Bf-committers] F-Stop

[Sergey Sharybin]

I'm not sure how you can drop F-Stop from the defocus node. it's not
guaranteed that render scene is used for compositing, meaning different
value might be needed.

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Antony Riakiotakis <kalast at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Indeed there is redundancy there. There's just one reason it hasn't
> been merged: cycles has its own f-stop number. Ideally we would import
> the camera f-stop from blender during rendering but that would require
> us to do a version patch -from- cycles camera data to blender to keep
> old files working. I am not sure if this is possible..
>
> Personally I don't have any preference over keeping or dropping one of
> the two. I can see merits in both ways. Agree it should totally be up
> to the users.
>
> On 11 May 2015 at 23:06, Jeroen Bakker <j.bakker at atmind.nl> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > just noticed that there are currently 2 places where you can/need to set
> > the F-Stop.
> >
> > 1. In the camera settings (was first only visible in cycles, but since
> > viewport project it is also visible for blender renderer)
> > 2. In the compositor defocus node.
> >
> > The compositor defocus node does not work without having a camera setup
> > as it reads the Distance from the camera. But still we need to set the
> > F-Stop in the defocus node.
> >
> > Is there a reason why these values have not been merged?
> >
> > If not I would suggest to remove the F-stop field from the defocus node
> > and read the value from the camera itself. But maybe we should ask the
> > users.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jeroen & Monique.
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With best regards, Sergey Sharybin