• Maxon Cinema 4D

  DoF and transparent materials

  Posted by Shay Carriere on May 3, 2008 at 2:17 am

  My render contains a transparent material; but since depth of field is a post effect, objects far away that are seen through other closer objects are crisp and in focus when they should be out of focus. Is there a workaround or fix for this?

  Shay Carriere replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  May 3, 2008 at 3:05 am

  The only workaround I know of is to use a plugin rather than the built-in effect. ZBlur is a popular one.

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  Shay Carriere

  May 3, 2008 at 10:48 pm

  So there are no options within the material itself that tell it to look for depth of field before calculating transparency? I tried doing a multipass render with separate transparency and z-depth passes, but I couldn’t wrap my head around how to composite them in AE to take advantage of each pass….

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