Z-depth & glass

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Hey guys!

I’m doing some test renderings and preparations for final rendering of arch viz.
I’m planning to do DOF in post aftereffects by rendering a Z-depth pass.

So I’m having some trouble with setting up Z-depth so the black&white gradient would continue going inside the building and not stopping where the glass is.
I know I can re-render only the Z-depth map with the glass elements turned off, but I prefer doing it in one pass.

Is there a setting I’m missing?

Thanks,
matej

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You can turn off the glass object’s visibility in masks in the glass material (see attached). Notes

  • It will exclude the object from all masks, not just the Z-Depth (but not from render passes like Reflection etc.)
  • Refractions will not be calculated for the Z-Depth (perfectly fine for windows and anything with Thin enabled)

C4D ZDepth Glass.jpg
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Thank you @TomG !

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i had the same question few months ago for a work i was doing, didn´t knew about that, nice, thanks!!

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Most welcome!

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Is there a way to have the zdepth render “see through” the glass and still maintain the glass as a channel in the CMasking Masks?
such that i can control DOF in post for an animation?

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can you? there’s a way?

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there used to be a way:
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/ "Invisible in masks" doesn't apply to z-depth