max 2014 nitrous powerpreview etc DOF? MB?

[super gnu]

ive been tasked with doing some playblasts/animatics of a selection of camera paths.. gotta look as nice as poss and be extremely fast to crank out.

seems that even with powerpreview script, ive got no DOF/MB options, and the multi-pass effects dont work.

is there any way to enable these effects?

to be honest in the past i remember a set of viewport tweaks where you could even enable some kind of hacky GI in the viewport, but this was ages ago and probably pre-nitrous.

pretty shocking that whizz-bang nitrous doesnt even support the basic dof/mb preview in the basic max camera.

[super gnu]

on a related note i cant get dof to work in RT gpu.. is there some trick?

[theedge]

maybe take a look at this : http://www.luxx-studios.com/luxx-too...-luxx-preview/

[super gnu]

that looks cool.. i am more concerned with getting DOF working than MB to be honest... any suggestions? wrt RT gpu i got it working, just needed to use some stupid f-stop settings for my scene... however its not really fast enough to crank out the frames in the time i need.

[theedge]

For DOF I also rely on RT to preview it. Never found another way to do it directly in the viewport.
Autodesk has improved the performance of nitrous quite a lot over the years and that's a good thing. Maybe now it's time to focus on displaying some camera effects.

[super gnu]

ok ive just discovered that DOF actually works fine in the nitrous viewport!

you just have to set the multipass effect to DOF (mental ray) and play with the f-stop, then wait a second or so and it starts progressively doing the DOF.. works a treat.

dunno how i missed this