Get focal distance from camera

[bernhard]

Usually I make a connection from the distance tool (which is constraint to one of my objects I want to follow) to the Focal Point of the PhysCam.
Since the PhysCam (Still and Movie) doesn't work with MB, I go with the standard cam and try to deal with the DOF and MB Settings inside the global render settings.

So far so good.. but I just figured out, when checking "Get the focal distance from camera" it just doesn't work - what means.. yes, I get something rendered, but totally out of focus.
I assume it's another bug - however the translation is done, there is seriously something wrong.

And now, I have no more options to control the DOF and the focal distance - well, I am talking about animating and changing the focus distance of course.

Can you please fix that as well ?

[ivaylo.ivanov]

The default aperture seems to be pretty big and make the scene out of focus. Are you using appropriate value for your scene?

[Metzger]

There distance tool has two nodes. You can easily plug in the wrong one. What I do is go to hypershade and show up and downstream connections. The node you want will be sandwiched between the locators when you view that.

[bernhard]

@ivaylo:
yes.. I usually try to use appropriate values ... in regards to the scene size, measure, and of course in relation to the cam and my real world.

@metzger:
hmmm... I am pretty sure I selected the right one.. but I will double check....


Is this all going to be fixed in a nightly built with Vray 2.0 Linux Fedora 64 ?