On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 01:44:13 +0200, "Peter Hertel"
<peter@hertel**NOSPAM**.no> wrote:

>How do I smooth the blur more? Tried to increase blur_samples to 30 but it
>didn't help at all..

Decrease variance and increase confidence.

The number of samples you supply is the *maximum* number POV-Ray will
shoot. However, to speed things up, it employs some statistics.
Confidence shows how 'confident' POV-Ray should be that the result is
smooth before it stops shooting rays, and is a value from 0 to 1
representing 0% to 100%. Variance shows how little the next samples
should be expected to contribute to the smoothness before POV-Ray
stops shooting rays, and is a positive value, the lower, the better.

Try this out, slowly increasing the amount of Focal_Blur_Accuracy
until you get a satisfying result. Use the macro instead of specifying
confidence and variance, as in:

#macro Focal_Blur_Accuracy (FB_Accuracy)
  confidence 1-pow(10,-FB_Accuracy)
  variance pow(10,-FB_Accuracy-2)
#end

camera {
  [something]
  Focal_Blur_Accuracy(1)
}

See if it helps any. Also, try Francois' Automatic DOF macro on
www.wozzeck.net .

Good luck.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg

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