DOF Not Rendered When Bitmap Aperture Selected but No Map Loaded

[Joelaff]

I have run into this before, and it drove me crazy.

If you have Bitmap Aperture enabled in the VRayPhyscialCamera, but you you forget to select a map then the camera renders with no DOF.

I think at the very least the renderer should throw a warning (e.g., "Bitmap Aperture Selected, but no map loaded, rendering without DOF"). Or it should behave as though Bitmap Aperture is turned off and just render with DOF, but without any aperture effects.

[vladimir_krastev]

Hi thanks for contacting us. You may have a point about this behaviour. Let me check and I will get back to you.

[vladimir_krastev]

Hi after further discussions it was decided that the DOF should not turn off if the Bitmap aperture slot is enabled but empty. The issue is logged under VMAX-12866 in our internal bug tracking system.