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@Riggles
Damn, I'm sorry for the late reply, either I didn't get a notification or it got lost amongst a billion 'Penis-Pump' SPAM messages!

Thanks for posting that, it definitely puts my fears to rest and it was good to hear of the technicalities you'd noticed about it as well, so sounds good ...

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Riggles, please update this thread and let me know if you post anything to the gallery using this feature. I'm still on version one, so there's no way I can test it until version 3 comes out, and even then I'm hoping they do that 50% sale thing again! To be honest I didn't realise Octane was so ...

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@Abstrax
I'm just wondering, as you're allowing us to set the aspect ratio of the bokeh itself, that might not actually work for Anamorphic.
Say we set it to 2X vertically stretched, wouldn't that make all the bokeh in the scene 2X vertically stretched no matter how out of focus it is?

If it ...

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Abstrax, man, you rock 8-)
Bloody hell, if you could see the smile on my face right now :mrgreen:

That's absolutely fantastic, and ideal really cause there's no postwork involved either, brilliant. It would be good to have the values as fractions I think, but I don't know, can I leave that up ...

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I think you just crossposted with me, check out that video I just posted, pretty cool example.
But yup, Anamorphic is needed, those other renderers have it like you said.

All we need now, is to get it in Octane ... muahahaha ... beautiful Anamorphic

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BTW, Abstrax, this is done using a bokeh trick, but this is the effect you get with Anamorphic bokeh, watch how it behaves when defocusing.

Check this video out:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/66rrPfi1CG8


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But that's the way it has to be done unless the wizards at Otoy can make it work passively somehow, so that we don't need to squeeze back in postwork.

Actually, that should be quite easily done, nothing hard about changing the aspect of something. Unfortunatley, I don't know the terms the Otoy ...

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@Riggles
Yup, good example, cheers 8-)



@Abstrax
No, that's not the same, but what you did there demonstrates the problem perfectly. If you look at your images, notice you were able to change the aspect ratio of the scene, but the aspect ratio of the bokeh has also been changed. The ...

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First off, thanks for looking at this, I really appreciate it!

I believe the most basic way to implement Anamorphic rendering would indeed be to allow us to change the aspect of the virtual film plane, I'll try to explain this the best I can.

Imagine a normal scene and you are facing head-on to ...

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- Octane Render oreaches beta ... thought I'd have some of that ... no Anamorphic Rendering ... but hey it was a beta ... fair enough.
- Octane Render reaches version 1 ... still no Anamorphic Rendering ... damn!
- Octane Render reaches version 2 ... does anyone at Otoy even know some film ...