Is it possible to do motion blur inside of Daz Studio with Iray?
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Is it possible to do motion blur inside of Daz Studio with Iray? I'm doing a scifi speeder chase scene, and it would be hard to render the background separately because of all the lights that it is casting.
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I don't think so, but I've done motion blur using 3Delight with IBL Master (to help match the renders) and composited it with the main Iray render.
I don't think there is? There are some things that do a faux motion blur, but if you're doing a custom background, then probably not without rendering separately... but that is why you mess with the Iray Matte pass, IMO.
Select all background stuff, turn on advanced iray properties, enable Iray Matte... makes everything else a light/shadow-catcher, then run background separately.
I have seen that motion blur has been added to the newer versions of Iray. I'm not sure if DS has a way to implement it, though. Hopefully they will add it into DS soon if they haven't yet.
Hmm, I kinda thought that there wasn't an easy way to do it in Iray, but I figured I'd ask. Unfortunately, advanced Iray properties are WAYYYYY beyond me. I'll figure something out with compositing.
Thanks, everyone, for your comments, I appreciate it!
Don't know if this is of any use - it's a free tutorial from Dreamlight but I haven't watched it myself -
I happen to have just done a motion blur experiment!
I used Photoshop (also works in GIMP) to add motion blur, then used a depth map as a layer mask.
Gallery link
There is this product to help create motion blur effects within Daz Studio Blur Crazy I've used it a couple of times but now I need to find the images.
1. New Horizons - Used it to blur the propeller on top of the balloon.
Aha! That's what I need. I can't pick it up in time for this project, but I've got it wishlisted for later. Thank you!
And thank you, everyone, for the tutorials, I'll watch those and see if I can get some good ideas!
You're welcome, I couldn't locate the street scene I was playing with a while back but here is a quick test of a car speeding along a street, Blur props applied to the two wheels in view and a props cylinder applied to the scene, scaled and positioned to go around everything but the car, you need to remember to have your camera inside this prop or the car blurs as well. Note this does slow down the render and the attached one was stopped early and has no postwork, this is straight out of DS.
Health & Safety Notice, there is a driver, it's just that he's invisible.
There is also this product for motion blur: https://www.daz3d.com/motion-blur-for-iray
In regards to using a background, but not having it show while still having the lighting effects: have you tried using Canvases yet? It is a great tool although it can be a little heavy on system resources.
Wow, I was not aware of that product!
That looks really cool! Thanks for the links. Will have to check them out. I’m still much more comfortable (and capable) in Photoshop than DS.
Very cool renders! I don't know anything about canvases, I'll have to look into that.
Thanks for all the suggestions!
I highly not recommended this product, it's super slow after you have to render lot of additional frames to simulate motion blur with this script.
So the short answer is no, you can't do motion blur within DS with Iray, at least not like how Poser does it with Cycles, nevermind. I just pretend my camera lens is 50mm set to f22 and I'm using ISO 800 film. Motion blur.... what's that? MB is just a photographic effect, albeit plaesing to the eye, but very rarely seen in real-life situations..... the human eye has no shutter.