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Hi !

I can't get Depth Of Field using Spherical Camera, changing Aperture and Aperture Edge doesn't affect result image.

Is this intended, or should be fixed in future releases?

kcpr-raffaEl wrote:Hi !

I can't get Depth Of Field using Spherical Camera, changing Aperture and Aperture Edge doesn't affect result image.

Is this intended, or should be fixed in future releases?

The pano camera is a different type of projection than a thin lens camera, in fact it doesn't really have a central zone or lens for collating rays for physically correct DOF/COC effects like the thin lens camera does - those settings shouldn't be exposed for pano camera mode (it isn't in SE). The pano camera captures the rays 'as-is' just like the new baking camera.

You could try rendering multiple thin lens cameras with high FOV/distortion and stitch in HDR shop...or use z depth to fake DOF effects in post with V3 deep pixel data.

Another more involved option is to build the lens distortion you want as a mesh bubble which can refract light collected by the pano camera (or baking camera surface in V3).

Thank you for making things clear!

I'll post more info about my experiments about workarounds you've provided.


All Best!