VraySphereFade

[suurland]

Would be nice to have an option in VraySphereFade to work in screen space. Sometimes i have an object I want to render so put a gizmo around it, but at the same time I want to render the background behind the object, then i have to add another gizmo. So sometimes I have to make 5-10 gizmo instead of just having one that works in screen space.

/Thomas

[vlado]

Is it not easier to just use region rendering in that case?

Best regards,
Vlado

[sv]

I Suppose the problem would be if the object is moving all over the screen, you can't link the region to be rendered like you can with the spherefade...

[vlado]

You can do a "region render selected", and in that case the region will follow the object. Not sure if that would work through back-burner though.

Best regards,
Vlado

[suurland]

I do indeed have animated stuff, and for various reason "region render selected" won't work as good as VraySphereFade.

[sv]

You can do a "region render selected", and in that case the region will follow the object. Not sure if that would work through back-burner though.

Best regards,
Vlado

cool - I didn't know about this

[davision]

I'd like to add a vote for screen-space option. It would be very convenient at times.

I seem to recall we discussed this (or same concept anyway) at one point, a long time ago.

Actually that reminds me -- someone suggested a trick for adding a perfectly clear "glass" plane with 1.0 IOR inside the sphere (or something like that) -- i think that will give you the background. I can dig up the exact tip from my saved archives if you want.

(Although I still would love to see it hard-coded Vlado).

[Morbid Angel]

Though I never use vray sphere fade I would say to have this option is useful.
However I think you could easily do this with a script to analyze distance from camera and translate that into scale value of the gizmo to be constant.

[suurland]

Not everyone knows how to script

Also scaling the gizmo doesn't help, vray render it as it wasn't scaled. But I guess that could be added to the wishlist too, and support for CylGizmo and BoxGizmo.

/Thomas

[vlado]

I've already logged this as a feature request, so hopefully it will go into one of the next builds.

Best regards,
Vlado