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Subject: C4 depth of field question

tkane18 opened this issue on Mar 04, 2005 · 4 posts
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tkane18 ( ) posted Fri, 04 March 2005 at 11:59 AM · edited Fri, 10 July 2026 at 2:17 AM

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I know when C4 was coming out, many of the users got excited with ray traced DOF. I have been playing with the latest demo and really can't tell the difference between normal and ray traced depth of field. I know one is done during the render and the other is done post but considering the render times for the ray traced version, why would I want to use that? Here are two examples. If there is a quality difference, it is very subtle.

MarkBremmer ( ) posted Fri, 04 March 2005 at 12:53 PM

Raytraced DOF works through transparency and alpha masks/planes. Regular DOF does not and will keep everything "in focus" if it occurs behind something transparent. Mark





tkane18 ( ) posted Fri, 04 March 2005 at 1:59 PM

I knew an excellent user would have an excellent answer for my question. Thanks.

ayodejiosokoya ( ) posted Sun, 06 March 2005 at 7:05 AM

I think the bluring looks more natural in the images I have seen using raytraced dof. Regular seems to create an odd halo effect and I cant really get good results from it.

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