Only render certain distance from the camera?

[jebhardwick]

Hi guys!

I am trying to create a render set-up which would allow the following -

Say I have debris orbiting a central point, but I want to put footage of a person in the middle of that orbiting debris, so the debris closest to the camera goes in front of the person, and stuff further away from the camera goes behind the person, is there a way of setting up a render so that it only renders objects a certain distance away from the camera?

I don't think it works with object tags because it is a single object that has been exploded using the Explosion FX, and as the objects are orbiting from foreground to background I can't just set up two seperate exploded objects for fore and back to render separately.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm really stuck on this one!

Thanks in advance,

Jeb

P.S. I use After Effects to composite, so I'm afraid the deep compositing abilities of Nuke are a mystery to me!

[aoktar]

"Near Clip Depth"?

[jebhardwick]

Thanks for the response Aoktar! I can't find any details on how to do this in C4D, any pointers would be much appreciated!

Jeb

[aoktar]

It's getting from camera near clipping or camera tag's similar parameter.