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Almost every time when I play with Camera I must add the Xpresso, where linking Camera Focus Distance with Focal Depth in the Octane Camera Tag. Though both properties are the same, but setting its value in the camera is easier, because you can do it in the Attribute Manager or directly in the viewport.
Maybe it could be linked by default in the Octane Tag? Or just add the tick box with "Use the Camera Focus Distance"
The same situation is with the FOV. Why that one is doubled?

sphericall wrote:Almost every time when I play with Camera I must add the Xpresso, where linking Camera Focus Distance with Focal Depth in the Octane Camera Tag. Though both properties are the same, but setting its value in the camera is easier, because you can do it in the Attribute Manager or directly in the viewport.
Maybe it could be linked by default in the Octane Tag? Or just add the tick box with "Use the Camera Focus Distance"
The same situation is with the FOV. Why that one is doubled?

you can use camera focal distance, if you leave as zero the focal distance in cameratag. No need extra functionality or xpresso.

Cameratag fov will be removed from tag.

That's right, everything works fine if you leave Octane Cam tag focus distance set to 0.

The only problem is that once you change it from 0 (as well as the 'Aperture' setting) you can never reset these to 0 manually or via 'reset to default'. The lowest they can ever be once changed from 0 is 0.1. Can this bug/limitation be worked out?

Otherwise you have to delete the tag and add a fresh Octane Cam tag, but the focal depth definitely works 100% of the time linked to the C4D camera. Also be sure to uncheck 'auto-focus', but that should be obvious