Makes sense, thanks Tim! That means that the info from the "Distance to Output Camera" is doing exactly what you need Emilio, since when centered the ICETree info matches perfectly.
-- Ben Davis www.moondog-animation.com +33 6 88 48 54 50 On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Tim Leydecker <bauero...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hey Ben, > > the farther offset the null is off center to the center of the camera view > the more "off" the DOF would be because the DOF effect is sets in respect > to the viewplane of the camera and it would take some Pythagorean theorem > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Hypotenuse<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotenuse>) > to get the desired major cathetus, > which is the Distance between Camera Center and a "Plane" from the shorter > cathetus. > > To avoid that, itæ„€ easier to constraint the camera to "look at" the null, > then the hypothenuse "snaps back into" the longer cathetus and there is > no offset anymore to worry about. > > Cheers, > > tim > > > On 29.03.2013 10:06, Ben Davis wrote: > >> It looks like "Distance to Output Camera" from the viewport options is >> spitting out the info from a plane in front of the camera based on the >> distance from the null if it were in the center of your camera's view. If >> your null is centered, the values are the same from the ICETree and the >> viewport info. >> >> The ICE info from the "Get Distance Between" is exactly the distance from >> center to center (global.kine to global.kine). I don't see a problem with >> using the info from ICE to feed into your DOF, you're probably going to >> get >> a more precise focus placement (I'll accept being refuted by the >> photographers out there :) >> >> Hope that helps! >> >> Ben >> >> -- >> Ben Davis >> >> www.moondog-animation.com >> >> +33 6 88 48 54 50 >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Emilio Hernandez <emi...@e-roja.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hello I am trying to rig the camera DOF so I can attach the distance to a >>> null. I am the ICE distance between node. But when I turn on the >>> distance >>> to output camera from the viewer, it gives me a different result. >>> >>> So the Distance to output camera from the viewport options is different >>> than the Distance between node in the ICE tree using the kine.global.pos >>> from the camera and the null. >>> >>> I will appreciate any help on this issue. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>
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