3d layer/camera DOF in combustion?

[mr_wowtrousers]

Are you talking about DOF on 3D rendered graphics? I am new to Combustion myself, but if you save your files as *.RPF or another format that saves the Z-depth info, you should be able to load it up and apply a 2D blur based on the grayscale information in the *.RPF file.

Does this make sense? When you save the z-depth, you get a channel that gives each object in the scene a greyscale value based on their proximity to the camera. Close things are lighter grey, distant things are dark grey/black. The 2D blur applies the blur based on this greyscale.

[dg]

Nop, not that I'm aware of.

I'm not sure but you might be able to link the position of the camera to a Depth of Field or Compound Blur operators trough expressions to control that.

There is a Layer DOF expression example at:
- http://www4.discreet.com/combustion/docs/layerdof.cws

Might give you some ideas.


See ya,

[ssalo]

Thanks guys!

mr_wowtrousers: No, I didn't meant DOF for rendered images but thanks anyway :)
diogo girondi: Thanks for the link but it seems to be a quite rude hack and works only if you facing layers straight ahead. Too bad Combustions doesn't have this feature. It's good tool when creating titles/motion graphics in AE.

[dg]

I have to agree, C* camera options are a bit limited.

Well go with AE if you can :)



Cheers,

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