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Hi Bazuka,

I encountered two problems here, which you might be able to solve.
1.
I animate Focal Depth attribute in the plugin, which it also links to the maya camera's Focal Lenth.
Say I have 10 frames to render. If I render manually frame 1 and frame 10, I see the change of Focal Depth.
However, if I hit Render Animation , then frame 1 ~ frame 10 images have the same Focal Depth, which does not change.

2.
Do we adjust the center of focus by defining Center of Interest attribute in Maya's Camera? I keyed the values but the focal point doesn't animate in the pictures either.

Any fixes?

Cheers,
Thomas

Hi Thomas

ill check tonight about the probl u have and try to fix them

cheers

As some users have, and so do I, have problems with the maya2octane 'exporter' script I'll try to help there.
First, I have to say that the script could be improved and does include weird and even wrong things.
Coding for maya is part of my daily work so I guess I can discuss about that... and remember I'm not there to blame bazuka.

So, concerning the focal point issue, that's because of a misunderstanding. The 'Focal Depth' is not the focal length or fov (field of vue). It's the focal point and should be written in the command line launching octane by this flag : --cam-focaldepth.
It's not a good idea to present that attribute in the maya2octane UI.
This parameter could be set/keyframed with the camera's centerOfInterest attribute or the focusDistance attribute wich are pretty much the same thing (note that you can connect the centerOfInterest -> focusDistance).

So, a workaround for you at this time could be to not use the 'Focal Depth' of the maya2octane script and replace some lines in the script (could be more solid; be done once...) by adding these lines :

$cmdLine += " --cam-focaldepth " + (getAttr (`optionMenuGrp -q -v activeCam` + ".focusDistance"));
after line 368 and 375

and

$animCmdLine += " --cam-focaldepth " + (getAttr (`optionMenuGrp -q -v activeCam` + ".focusDistance"));
after line 474, 484 and 491

This should have been done since...
Hope that helps.

F

looks like i misunderstood some things here, 10x for pointing it, ill try to fix then in new rls

for 'Focal Depth' in GUI i was thinking of camera focal lenght, i wrote it wrong but its not a bug coz scripts sends to octane proper values, only thing is that confuses the user my mistake...


if u find more bug/ideas let me know

cheers

Yep Bazuka.
I would like to help but I'm missing for time (just did some code on the fly to correct things and have your script fitting my needs). Wish I can offer some 'rewriting', procedures and ideas soon...

i have also run into some project so i didint have time to check everything...

did u find anything else in my code that u dont like it, or the only probl u find was the focaldepth?

im going to upload fixes later today

cheers

Hope I'm not hijacking this at all; I'm having the exact same issue with Maya not saving the focus depth information. In addition, scenes loaded into Octane always come in with Autofocus turned on, no matter how I save the scene prior. Will that also get addressed by this script mod or an updated version of the plug-in? Thanks,

Pete, MTECH Labs

This should be adressed with the modifications I wrote... or next update by bazuka.
maya2octane is just a mel script, not a plugin (c++).
This lines just 'send' the focusDistance attribute's value of your selected camera to octane by constructing a command line.
To be clear, that this command line will include the --cam-focaldepth flag followed by the focusDistance value.
So this attribute has to be set or keyframed for your camera in your scene.

F

I'm using the 2.4 beta script and adding your extra lines works well. Thank you! It's still a little weird to see the Autofocus icon remaining on, but at least the focus point seems to obey Maya's camera settings now.

You're welcome.
There's no command line flag to turn off autofocus. If the --cam-focaldepth is given then it takes over the AF.
F