Indigo Renderer Forum

Hey Ono can you put in some cool DOF effects like this and maybe some others (Unless Indigo can already do this and I just haven't played with DOF enough). Plain blur isn't very groovy

This is what indigo DOF is already... I'm pretty sure.

Really? I've never seen a render like that though, or with thoser hexagon thingies either? How do I do it?

Bokeh that is not perfect gaussian circles is caused by imperfections

A 6 bladed aperture diaphram = hexagon bokeh. (of out of focus points of light)

I'd kill for indigo bokeh in real life: smooth, perfectly transitioned airy discs.

Oh ok. But I reckon you should be able to set the thingy to imperfect because sometimes it looks really good with lots of lights in the background.

Anthony wrote:Really? I've never seen a render like that though, or with thoser hexagon thingies either? How do I do it?

there are better examples but look at this:
http://www2.indigorenderer.com/joomla/i ... temId=3998
(not as noticeable and strong as in your pic but you can see that it works)

I know Indigo has DOF but I mean cool imperfect DOF like this with the hexagons.

zsouthboy wrote:Bokeh that is not perfect gaussian circles is caused by imperfections

A 6 bladed aperture diaphram = hexagon bokeh. (of out of focus points of light)

I'd kill for indigo bokeh in real life: smooth, perfectly transitioned airy discs.

That remembers me a discussion I was reading years ago... one guy was saying the same: CG artists are all after ngons bokeh and photographers are after soft blur

yes, you are right.. for us (photographers ) are better nice circles (smallest f-stop) than not so nice hexagons or, or something..
i am really happy with indigo as is