Visibility track

Mon Oct 30, 2017 5:09 pm

It seems there is still slight visibility of an object when it's visibility is set to 0 either with object properties or through adding a visibility track in graph editor. Please fix

A faint shadow line is visible where the object intersects a visible object.

Tue Oct 31, 2017 8:52 am

Hi DartFrog,
could you kindly show me an example about this?
I do not think you understand what you're saying.
Regards
Paride

Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:39 pm

Sample:
https://imgur.com/jIQGv6S

I'm using 4.06.4-4.36 since it seems to be the most stable so far. I'll check if it's the same issue in later versions.

Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:01 pm

Hi DartFrog,
4.41I think it is absolutely stable.
This is the test about your issue.
Regards
Paride

Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:05 pm

Can you intersect the teapot with the wall and re-render? My teapot was intersecting the wall and the shadow was the intersection line that we saw.

Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:28 pm

Hi dartfrog,
it is.
Regards
Paride

Tue Oct 31, 2017 4:42 pm

Hi Paride - I appreciate you looking into the issue. I found that the latest version of the plugin (4.41) does still show the outline. The Ray epsilon value (default is 0) isn't actually a default of 0. Maybe it's 0.0001 or something. A true value of 0 will eliminate the line. Leaving the value as it was (whatever it was) shows the line, and typing in .001 or something makes it much more evident. Try it!

Mon Nov 06, 2017 6:15 pm

Didn't get much closure with this - I think the take-away is that the Visibility flag doesn't completely hide the objects. Especially when you exaggerate the effects using a higher ray epsilon value. An ideal solution would be if the visibility flag is at 0.00, then ithe object shouldn't register in the scene at all and shouldn't contribute to the geometry/memory count of the render. Please consider fixing in a future update if possible.