Comments on: djDepth phenomena

By: seq

seq — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:19:52 +0000

Just test the shader under Vista64 and Maya2009 and it works!

Thanks a lot David and thanks Ikaria for the x64 tip.

Now we can blur our brand new Importons+IP images

By: david

david — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:58:51 +0000

You are most welcome. Nice to know it works.

By: ikaria

ikaria — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:01:06 +0000

I just tested your shader under XP x64. It works great, but requires the x64 version of dll's from Duiker Research. http://duikerresearch.com/mental-ray/#Download. Thank you for a fantastic shader!

By: david

david — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:40:14 +0000

I've received an email from Arian Tibbs saying he got it working on Mac OS 10.5. Here's what he wrote...
"What I did was take the DOF rig/setup you had from your original work (the maya software render / mental ray DOF shader you wrote awhile back) and applied it to the DJ Depth shader you created. I basically rigged up a camera and distance tools etc to the camera and animated the locater that I had connected to the focal range."

Arian also kindly packaged up a Mac version of djDepth with the required Duiker Research components. I have added it to my downloads page.

Thanks Arian.

By: david

david — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:43:34 +0000

Hmmm. I'm not sure then. It's working ok on xp and vista.

Just to be sure I did some cmd-line tests. In one I had animated the focus distance by keyframing it directly. In the other I used a measure distance tool - one locator parented to the camera, the other locator's translate values were animated, and the distance output connected to djDepth. Both tests gave the expected results. Each cmd-line command rendered only a single frame. I had to launch it 10 times to render a 10 frame sequence.

Maybe its a Mac issue. If you feel like sending a test scene I'll render on xp and see what happens.

By: ariantibbs

ariantibbs — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:48:56 +0000

David, I use the command line on Mac OS 10.5 to do all my renders. Even when I do that, if I set a range of images to be rendered (a targa sequence for example), I still get the same results, no matter what frame it starts on, it keeps re-rendereing the initial frame.

By: david

david — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:06:20 +0000

ariantibbs, thankyou for letting me know about this problem. I was not aware of it because I use the smedge render manager and most of my renders get done as single frames on the render-farm. I had a look into it, but so far nothing I tried gets around this problem. The only work around is to render one frame at a time - easy if you use a render manager, but very inconvenient if you dont. Maybe someone else will have a solution.

By: ariantibbs

ariantibbs — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:13:36 +0000

Hey David, the plugin works pretty well, but I seem to have a problem when I'm animating the focus distance. When I render, it doesn't reflect the keyframes, it seems to continually render the settings from the first frame. Is there a special process I need to follow to correctly render? Thanks again for all your hard work!

By: david

david — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:17:22 +0000

Thanks for testing it Mike. Nice to know it works as I had hoped. Regarding drUtilSuite, do you know of any documentation other than the pdf that is in that zip file?

By: wywait

wywait — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:47:52 +0000

Tried it out on my Macbook Pro and it works like a charm. The drUtilSuite has saved me on many occasions as a mac user.

Mike.