vray lens effects aperture shapes

[stevesideas]

Am I missing something ? I've checked out Pixela's tutorial and she explains that you can create different bitmaps for the lens effect to use using filter generator but I cannot see how to create the aperture shapes she shows further down the page.

[wxyz]

Look in the VRay Tools folder.

[wxyz]

C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\3dsmax 2014 for x64

[stevesideas]

The filter generator is there but no aperture bitmap files.

[tashko.zashev]

Hi Stevesideas,

Most probably those shapes are created with some graphics editing program. In my opinion they should be used as a obstacle image.
The V-Ray Filter Generator is designed to produce .HDR files, which can be used to add physically correct effect to the final image.

[stevesideas]

That's what I was thinking. From the tutorial it looked like the filter gen could create those. Not to worry.

[stevesideas]

If anyone is interested, I found a good resource for bokeh shapes which you could use inside vray lens effects. LINK

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

i think these are perfect

http://www.dofpro.com/aperture_maps.htm

[stevesideas]

Fantastic ! Thanks a lot