{"id":382,"date":"2021-01-29T15:27:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/?p=382"},"modified":"2021-01-29T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:31:10","slug":"dof-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/autodesk-maya\/dof-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Focus Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this video, I lay out a somewhat automated way to set the Focus Distance correctly when rendering with Depth of Field. It involves connecting a distance measuring tool to the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Setting Focus Distance\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SKdPORs7Be4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is the node editor network used. This is from a scene where the units were not set to the standard, and Maya insisted on putting a unitConversion node it. The conversion has to be set to one, thus no conversion, to work properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/DOF_Focus_Nodes.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"973\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/DOF_Focus_Nodes.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/DOF_Focus_Nodes.png 973w, https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/DOF_Focus_Nodes-960x354.png 960w, https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/DOF_Focus_Nodes-768x283.png 768w, https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/DOF_Focus_Nodes-250x92.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, I lay out a somewhat automated way to set the Focus Distance correctly when rendering with Depth of Field. It involves connecting a distance measuring tool to the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3,37],"tags":[27,45],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-26","category-autodesk-maya","category-rendering","tag-instruction-video","tag-tips-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}