Dynamic Depth of Field Camera + interactive export

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Amplitude
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Hi,
I've set up a little camera rig which could interest some XSI users out here.
Hope you will like it.

The setup is fully interactive in both XSI viewport and is dynamically linked with Octane (through the wonderful face's plugin).

The camera has HUD settings for:
- the aperture (in f-stop) like a real camera
- the focal length (in mm)
- the focus point distance (yellow null)

- The focus point is set by the yellow null.
- The grey plane is the IN FOCUS plane and camera frustum (change with aspect ratio)
- The blue plane represents the NEAR focus limit.
- The red plane represents the FAR focus limit.

All the parameters are linked and calculated for the different variables (aperture, focus distance and focal length). The planes help you visualize the DoF effect even without having to do a test render in Octane.
All the calculations are made for a 35mm Academic film back and standard Circle of confusion.
Thus the focal length should be the same as a full Frame DSLR. (eg: 20, 35, 50, 85mm ...)

The camera controls are found under the "Camera_Root" Null, under the "cam_CONTROLS" Parameters.

To see the HUD settings in your viewport you have to activate the "view Custom Display Info Parameters" and "Use Proxy Parameters Names" (see image below).
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**The custom settings found under the Camera object are for internal calculations and shouldn't be modified, moved or deleted**

If you need to relink the camera to the octane exporter for some reason , just link the "O_Apt." and "Focus Distance" to the two parameters of Octane exporter (A-A, B-B) (see image below).
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Enjoy! ;)
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woooot nice !!!
thank you amplitude...
I will try this !!!!
when .... i .. have .. time -_-;



*encore merci a toi ;)
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haha at least one who looks happy!
;) thanks mate
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Amplitude wrote:haha at least one who looks happy!
;) thanks mate
Hey, my congratulation was in a other thread ;)
But for now, i have no time to test...


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;) I wasn't saying that for you face.
but I had thought that more people would have been interested by such feature.
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I am Amplitude, thank you for taking the time.....it's just that I can't find the time to test it yet...too busy on production.

But I'll let you know as soon as it's done ;)

Hal.
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:shock:
love it and definetly will use it.

I thought that xsi will be the least developed plugin here but its the most...
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Thx guys , really appreciate it .

agreed mlody47, that's a good feeling isn't? :D (with Maxwell it was quite the contrary...)
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well, gearing up for the animation competition I have just finished to create this rig.
The idea is to constrain the camera in a realistic way, thus trying to produce more natural camera motion as opposed to a completely free virtual camera.
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/12138521[/vimeo]

It's based on its real counterpart :the MotionControl Milo.
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cheers :D
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Good stuff, this looks awesome. Thank you!
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