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distance pic render?

chromchrom Posts: 260
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Can you render a kind of distance pic like where the grey color level is the distance to the camera (eg for figures with clothes)?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,484

    Yes, in Iray it's an option in the Canvasses sub-tab of the Advanced tab of Render Settings - just click the button to add a new canvas.

  • chromchrom Posts: 260

    Thank you it work after some adjustments /threads :)

     

    Are there any information for these available canvases listed? I didn't find it.

    (eg what is the difference of distance and depth?)

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,484

    I'm not aware of an itemised list, and I don't know what the differences are in that particular case.

  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,590
    edited October 2019

    https://www.irayplugins.com/maya-doc/auxiliary_canvases_attributes_1.htm?ms=NQAAAABABHgD&st=MA%3D%3D&sct=MA%3D%3D&mw=MjQw

    There's a tiny bit of extra information in the "Iray for Maya" documentation.

    The 'Depth' is the traditional Z-Depth that most programs understand. Its the distance from the Z axis to the target.

    The 'Distance' is measured from a point in the center of the camera, so it's radial, not flat like the z-depth.

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  • JonnyRayJonnyRay Posts: 1,744
    edited October 2019

    From the Maya description, I would interpret it as follows.

    Depth is how far from the camera the object is on the z-axis only. While Distance measures how far the object is in all 3 dimensions. If I'm correct in my interpretation, then Depth would be better for things like adding haze and fog while Distance might work better for manipulating the Depth of Field in post processing.

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  • chromchrom Posts: 260

    Thank you both.

    Now I understand the difference.

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