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DoF Helper (WiP)

The DoF Helper is a Master plugins that helps in visualising and working with Depth of Field in Layout.

It comes with generic plugins that can be added to shortcuts or menus to add/open, enable and disable the plugin.

Basic Functionality

When added to the scene, all Perspective and Real Lens cameras that have Depth of Field activated will have additional visualisations added to them in the viewports.

When any of these cameras are selected, handles will be shown to edit the F-Stop as well as the Focus Distance. In the camera viewport, a tool is added to interactively pick the Focus.

The plugin may be added and removed at any time, the changes to the F-Stop and Focal Distance are applied directly to the respective cameras.

Options

Presets

You can use the Preset System to load and save settings as well as save default settings that will be used when the plugin is added to a scene.

Selected Display / Deselected Display

These two options define how the Depth of Field is display for the currently selected or any unselected camera.

Most of these options display a volume in the scene that will be in focus 1). This depends on the Render Resolution, the Frame, Focal Distance and Lens F-Stop of the camera.

  • None - as the name implies, this displays no additional information.
  • Simple - draws a wire frame box around the volume that will be in focus.
  • Lines - draws three axis through the focus, each ending at the volume that will be in focus.
  • Simple Volume - draws a semi-transparent box around the volume that will be in focus.
  • Focus Plane - draws the plane that will be in focus as a solid, bent shape.
  • Near & Far Plane - draws the near and far planes that encompass the volume that's in focus as solid, bent shapes.

Near Colour

Near Alpha

Far Colour

Far Alpha

Use Grid Texture

Display Text

Display In-Camera Focus

Allow Depth Picking

1)
Basically, the volume where the blur due to the DoF will be smaller than a rendered pixel. This is why it depends on the Render Resolution as well.
tools/dofhelper.1574609169.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/11/24 16:26 by lightwolf