Vray Spherefade - add background immage

[tomtnt]

Would be possible to bring an option in vray sphere fade?: add background image? Now, vray sphere fade support only background color not image.
Thank you

[Subburb]

+1 ! here !.. but maybe it's not possible..?

[vlado]

Well the idea is to compose the image afterwards on the actual background... we could perhaps add an option to just use the scene environment instead of a solid color?

Best regards,
Vlado

[Subburb]

yes, with a bit of luck, it can greatly help to simplify render and composite, right ?

[kimgar]

Well the idea is to compose the image afterwards on the actual background... we could perhaps add an option to just use the scene environment instead of a solid color?

Best regards,
Vlado

Hi, I'm bringing this back up since I am trying to find a quick workflow straight from vfb to premiere and skip the whole nuke/AE compositing steps.
I am trying to fade landscape into the background, and spherefade is the only option I can think of that could do it, any chance of seeing a fade to background instead of solid color at any point?

Or is there another way I am missing, to use materials or something to achieve the effect I usually do by comping zdepth as opacity in post?

Come to think of it, the vrayphysicalcam has a shader slot, can something be put there to get a gradient clipping plane or can the vrayclipper use a gradient?