In addition, you can now export Arnold shaders directly through Maya USD. Velocity motion blur, NURBS curves, and UsdPreviewSurface displacement are now supported in both the Render Delegate and the procedural. The Render Delegate now supports Cryptomatte, mesh lights, color management, light filters, light shaders, and nested instances as well as pinned curves and overscan. New dual lobe phase function parameters in the volume shader make it easier to render realistic clouds, and new modes for controlling the scaling of the emission can improve the look of emissive volumes. SetAttr ($camShape + '.MtoA 5.2.0 for Arnold 7.1.3 which provides improved volume rendering, improvements to the USD procedural and the Hydra Render Delegate, as well as an improved viewport experience.

SetAttr ($camShape + '.aiApertureSize') 1 String $locs = `distanceDimension -sp 1 1 1 -ep $camPos $camPos $camPos` ĬonnectAttr -f ($locs + '.distance') ($camShape + '.aiFocusDistance') String $camShape = `listRelatives -s $cam` įloat $camPos = `getAttr ($cam + '.translate')` Print 'Ooops! Please select a camera! ' Usage: Just select your render camera and run the script. It’s easier for me to see and animate this locator than to try animating “distance from camera” value. You can exactly direct the camera’s focal point in 3D space. Hope it helps and let me know if you’ve some ideas to improve tool.Ī simple tool to have viewport locator feedback for Arnold’s 3D depth of field. Just select the camera and run the script to get a focus assist locator. Of course, GPU render engines like RedShift is the real deal for this kind of workflow.īut for now, for those who want to give it shot at using Arnold for in-camera DOF, here’s a little script to quickly set up a focus assist locator which you can position as you wish. Hey! I’m an old school CG artist from the days of CPU rendering and depth pass and zDefocus, and only recently got over the psychological barrier of doing in-camera DOF.

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