[Bf-funboard] No way to disable DoF without changing settings?

Bassam Kurdali bassam at urchn.org
Wed Jul 1 01:29:31 CEST 2015


A quick workaround (not ideal) is to use F Stop for DOF, and keep
aperture at 0, switching between F-Stop and Aperture to enable/disable
 
I agree a flag would be nice, since you often would like to turn off
DOF temporarily without losing your exact aperture/F-Stop setting.

On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 23:15 +0100, db4tech at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Hi David,
> One scene I worked on (recreation one of my studio photographs), had 
> an 
> extremely shallow DoF.
> While making fine control adjustments to lighting placement and 
> angle, 
> it was necessary to observe the scene from the camera view while 
> viewport rendered, and keep disabling DoF to monitor the exact 
> position 
> where light would fall.
> 
> In a situation like that, it would have been really useful to be able 
> to 
> quickly disable / enable DoF.
> David
> 
> On 30/06/2015 12:46, David McSween wrote:
> > But you can already set exposure separately to the aperture. 
> >  Doesn't that
> > mean that aperture is only useful for dof focus effects? If you 
> > don't need
> > it why activate it at all?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > David Mcsween
> > On 30 Jun 2015 08:03, <db4tech at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi gandalf3,
> > > 
> > > I'm new to the funboard.
> > > 
> > > Could see such functionality being useful.
> > > To maximise productivity (user wouldn't have to select relevant 
> > > camera,
> > > then Camera tab), possibly a more suitable location for a toggle
> > > check-box would be on the Render panel, under Light Paths, with 
> > > other
> > > render selectable options?
> > > 
> > > David
> > > 
> > > On 29/06/2015 21:35, gandalf3 wrote:
> > > > I thought it slightly odd that there is no way to disable 
> > > > cycles DoF
> > > > without changing the aperture setting (and thereby messing up 
> > > > whatever
> > > > you may have set previously).
> > > > Would it be possible to add a checkbox to the depth of field 
> > > > panel (e.g.
> > > > embedded in the header like the Safe Areas panel to save screen 
> > > > real
> > > > estate)?
> > > > 
> > > > Am I the only one who finds it odd that such a checkbox doesn't 
> > > > exist?
> > > > 
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