> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been using POVRay and Megapov for rendering images and obtaining depth
> maps using Megapov's post-processing tool available here at
> http://megapov.inetart.net/manual-1.2.1/global_settings.html#post_processing.
> I'm rendering the publicly available office room scene from Jaime's website
> http://www.ignorancia.org/en/index.php?page=The_office.
>
> However, my main problem is that it takes almost 2.5 hours to render the scene
> using POVRay 3.6. I'm having to use MegaPOV for only depth and MegaPOV is not
> available linked with POVRay 3.7 which is parallelisable (where my scene is
> rendered in couple of minutes). I would like to use the benefits of POVRay 3.7
> but I don't know how difficult is it to obtain depth map using POVRay 3.7. If
> anyone has ever tried obtaining depth maps using POVRay 3.7 for such complicated
> scenes like this, I'd be very grateful to have your feedback and suggestions on
> that!
>
> Kind Regards,
> Ankur Handa
>
>

Faked focal blur ONLY work for first surfaces. If you have any 
transparence or reflection, it totaly breaks down.

You are probably beter using actual focal blur directly with POV-Ray 
3.7. On a single core computer, it's faster than 3.6 AND also support AA.
I almost never used focal blur in 3.6 because it was to slow.
I occasionaly use it now with 3.7.

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