Thin Lens

Conical Img

To create an Octane Thin Lens camera with a normal perspective view you need to create a Conical camera in Carrara.

Conical

The plugin will use the Carrara settings for the lens size to determine a Field of View that matches the Carrara Production Frame.
The plugin will also use the Carrara Distance to Near Plane setting to set the Octane Near clip depth.

 

Isometric Img

To create an Octane Thin Lens camera with an orthographic view you need to create a Isometric camera in Carrara.

Isometric

The plugin will use the Carrara setting for Zoom to determine a field of view that matches the Carrara Production Frame.
The plugin will also use the Carrara Distance to Near Plane setting to set the Octane near clip depth.

 

There are two ways that you can control Depth of Field in the plugin. You can either use the Carrara Depth of Field effect, or you can use the Focal Depth and Aperture settings in the Octane Thin Lens effect.

DoF_0

To control the depth of field using the Carrara Depth of Field effect you need to Enable the effect and then open the DoF editor by pressing the Edit button. Note that the Aperture, Auto Focus, and Focal Depth settings in the Octane Thin Lens effect are ignored while the Carrara Depth of Field effect is enabled.

DoF_1

When using the Carrara Depth of Field effect the Focus setting controls the field depth and the Blur Intensity controls the aperture. All other settings are ignored by the plugin.

NOTE: In Carrara, depth of field is optional, in Octane it is always enabled. To achieve a near infinite DoF you should set the Aperture setting in the Octane Thin Lens effect to zero.

 

Additional settings can be set for the Octane camera using the Octane Thin Lens effect.

CameraSettings

Please refer to the Octane Standalone manual for further details on these settings.

 

The Octane Thin Lens Camera with the anaglyphic stereo effect enabled.

Stereo