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Deep Compositing : How it works in Fusion.
In the informative interviews done by Mike Seymour on FXGuide about deep compositing, he has described examples of fog and candle lights in a row as an explanation of deep composting. These can be achieved in Fusion with the Volume Fog Tool.

The volume Fog tool is a special case render that takes 3D camera and lighting along with ‘deep images’ and renders them out from the cameras point of view.
The ‘Deep Images’ have XY and Z so that it can fit a volume of a 3D scene. The WPP is used to occlude the depth, so beauty passes can be merged into the volume image.
So in Anonymous nonlinear fog volumes of varying density can be integrated with the 3D scene. A rendered beauty pass along with its WPP(RGBA-XYZ) is put into 3D environment of the Volume tool and reacts with the fog volume. Because of the World Position Pass makes a fixed reference in terms of its XYZ coordinates, a Fog volume will stay fixed correctly to the scene. Zbuffer on the other hand is from the cameras rendered point of view, so camera based depth cue fog is not fixed to the scenes point of view.

In Fusion, you can create volumes procedurally using tools like fast noise, or particles, you can also load them via EXR. By doing things procedurally or a mixture of loading and procedurally the amount of data to disk can be dramatically reduced.
In Fusion 6.3, adding lighting models to the Volume Fog tooling, takes what can be achieved in this new deep arena to a whole new level. GPU powering this development makes the Deep Volumes interactive/realtime when rendering.

thank You Steve for such in-depth explanation!
one learns everyday:)

Sorry… all this writing. Why not just create a KAVT (Kick Ass Video Tutorial)…? It is much faster than all of these technical descriptions.
Looking forward )
/Samsoe

How do I load a render list (and/or revise that list) before rendering actually starts? Seems like "Add Comp" just loads 'n goes, and I don't want it to "go" until I'm ready (especially if I don't want an existing previous render to be overwritten!).

Thanks,

--Kelly

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So you have people in here mentioning "Kak" all the time, and how they love it. Sounds like your sense of humor alright, from what I remember Showed it to Jan E. earlier this week and he had to chuckle too.

Looking forward to give it a try and thanks for sharing.

Wow, it's so much better than the standard CornerPositioner!
Neat and logical interface.

But indeed, what I always missed in the CnP, was the possibility to drag multiple points at once.
And this tool still doesn't replace the Krokodove Positioner as it has no separate BG / FG inputs.

The advantage of Krokodove is that you can position corners of an image with different resolution over the background in the background's coordinates without preliminary reformatting.
Would be great to implement such functionality as the BG and FG image are often different resolutions and aspects.
So, if the FG isn't connected, the tool works just like it works now. If both image inputs are used, then it composites FG over BG and the points are transformed in the BG coordinates.
Perhaps, you could even borrow the Merge multibutton control from the Tracker to provide more output options (BG only / FG only / FG over BG (default) / BG over FG).

Concerning the Source / Destination choice, you may notice, that in the GridWarp when you switch to Source, it shows the original undistorted image which makes it easier to position the source points.
Although, you can always display the image from the previous node, so it's not so important...

In the standard CornerPositioner and in the Tracker the points are listed in the following order:
1. Upper-Left
2. Upper-Right
3. Bottom-Left
4. Bottom-Right
Do you also think it would be nice to stick to this standard?
I would even use those definitions (Upper-Left, Upper-Right, Bottom-Left, Bottom-Right) instead of the numbers to avoid confusion.

I hope, it doesn't sound as too much of critics, I wrote all this because I'm really looking forward to using this tool next time I need a corner positioning

Thank you once again!

Just spoke with Eyeon and they will transfer it all for $1,000 and upgrade to version 6x it for an additional $2,000 although the upgrade is not required.

Just to clarify, I am asking for $1,000 for 4 seats of DF 5x, 10 seats of RenderNode all on a floating license and HASP dongle. You will need to pay the transfer fee and optional upgrade costs if you elect to do that.

David Ellzey
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Thanks

Ray

Just found these breakdowns of "Monster of Nix". Haven't seen the movie but I have often read bits and pieces about it. Especially that it's been made using Fusion. So why hasn't there been an interview or feature about this yet? Is Daan, the artist who posted these on youtube, a forum member?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2irHbnoUE00

Here's an overview of the other clips. Great use of Fusion's shaders and 3D space!
And god damn, that whole idea of mixing live action with CG heads and legs is wicked

"KAK is inspired by a well known and much discussed keyer featured in an alternative compositing application. However, it is not necessarily the same, as I am having to guess exactly how closed source tools work by using them over and over again. This is probably a good thing, as in its current form I already like KAK better anyway. It sucks less. Some familiar settings in KAK might yield results similar to those found elsewhere, but that's in no way a guarantee. Other settings on the other hand you might not find anywhere else or might work a hell of a lot better for your needs, who knows eh? Only one way to find out, so please read on and give it a go yourself!"

http://www.vfxpedia....KAK_Description

And now... some sleep

Enjoy everyone.

Pieter.

Hi,

I am trying to open a .mov file that uses the Blackmagic codec. (1920 x 1080 10 bit YUV)

I download the codec and can open the .mov file fine in QT6.5 pro,
AE 6 and Vegas Video 4.

When I try to put it in a loader in DF4.04c it bombs out everytime.
I put the codec in C:\Windows\System32\Quicktime and C:\Windows\System32\.
Neither one works for DF.

I can output files to the BlackMagic codec and load them back in.

Also, I don't see the codec in the Preferences/IO/Quicktime.

Does anyone know how to get the codec to work with DF?

Thanks for any input.

Thanks for the detailed info. Yes, I can agree that RPS setup time is a pain in the ass, but it's so customizable. I do agree that as computing gets faster, shops will move to raytracers, as man power is more expensive than more computers.
As far as MB, DOF and DISP being as fast as a reyes renderer...hmmm...it seems hard to believe, especially since it goes against the logic of a raytracer vs a reyes renderer. I believe you... I just wonder how it's doing it...
It's so damn hard to understand any of the technology when it's not available to anyone but big studios.

Arnold's not just an executable you chuck geometry and textures at and get an EXR back. It's a complete C++ API as well. So you can use it to write your own raytracer / raycaster, and integrate it completely with your own tools and pipeline, and just let the Arnold library do the hard work behind the scenes. You can write your own integrator, accelleration structures, etc, etc, so it's pretty much as flexible as RPS... That's why the big studios are going for it (and why SA are not selling it normally).

The only other thing I know of it's not as fast with compared to PRMan is deformation motion blur (as opposed to just stocastically sampled transform of the primitive) - I think PRMan still wins here because they can do triangle culling which a brute force GI tracer can't do. But it's seriously fast.

Even more useful information. Thanks again.
If you're at siggraph let me know...I owe too many beers in this forum, so one more won't hurt...

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I think this ugly edges come from Illumination pass, how can i fix it in fusion? Cause can't possible fix it in 3d software.


Comp

Well...S-Log is supported in fusion by the Cineon Log Tool.

The settings are.
Black Level 0 , white level is 662
Film stock gamma is 0.9

So the Log tool will do both to and from conversion.

{
Tools = ordered() {
CineonLog1 = CineonLog {
CtrlWZoom = false,
Inputs = {
RedBlackLevel = Input { Value = 0, },
RedWhiteLevel = Input { Value = 662, },
RedFilmStockGamma = Input { Value = 0.9, },
},
ViewInfo = OperatorInfo { Pos = { 398, -21, }, },
},
},
ActiveTool = "CineonLog1",
}

Cheers.

Eric.

If you disable Merge1 you see the effect.
The problem is that the particles can only show either one bitmap or one color. The Rendered Gradient looks like single colors therefore you can only have one pixel per patch (disable Merge1 to see the pixel effect).
The real uvs on the other hand have the 0-1 gradients per patch but are all in local space from 0-1. Connect the Render3D1 to the Texture1 node directly to see the effect.

The trick is to divide the UV space to a fraction of patches add it. That's all folks. Probably a good trick to make a video tutorial from. I will do it. Now that ...

The BC_substractFraction is poop btw. Seems like it wasn't needed or there is a logical mistake. I did this in literally 5 minutes so excuse this flaw.

their is a menu over the node in some of Fusion tutorials videos witch shows you the all chanels of the nods and you can see it better and choose it directly. Is their a shortcut for that??

I understand that the editor has a heritage, probably from a time where double-buffering wasn't feasible. But come on. It's 2011. Even Blender has a spline editor that has anti-aliased curves, doesn't flicker and has smoother zooming.

It has so many additional problems even when it doesn't exhibit these random bugs like in the video, for example scale-to-fit and update speed when there are modifiers instead of keyframes.

I want this flare algorithm to be implemented, just for the heck of it

TIPS & TUTORIALS

• Warp Pixels Around Alfa - different ways to expand edges.
• Project And Bake - Eric Westphal aka SirEdric explains how to bake a camera projection and other types of UV-mapping.
• Pixel Aspect Sd Pal - explanation of pixel aspect principles in Fusion.
• 3d- To 2d-coordinates Conversion - How to use 3D coordinates in 2D tools.
• Randomizing Particle Sprites - different ways of randomizing bitmap-styled particles are suggested here.
• The Shake To Fusion Transition Guide - a comprehensive Shake - Fusion dictionary. Started by force_redo.
• Looping Particles - how to loop particles seamlessly.
• Trackers as Modifiers - video tutorials about effective usage of the Tracker modifier by Andy Caplau aka Durexlw.
• Boujou & Fusion - video tutorials about tracking with Fusion and Boujou by Andy Caplau.
• Windchime Flies - video tutorials about applying 3D-camera imported from Boujou to a particle system by Andy Caplau.

COMPOSITIONS

• Volumetric Lighting - Display 'cone' Of Light In 6.3 - creating light beams, different techniques by SecondMan, rubberduck and Gringo
• Stereo In Fusion - method of creating disparity maps for stereo workflow by DavidGuaita.
• Film Grain Tool - how to get the good old spread curves back to the new FilmGrain tool by Tilt.
• Position Pass From Z Depth - the topic about creating a World Position Pass from Z-Depth by robocop.
• Renderer Types: Software & Opengl - a clever way to get soft shadows to Hardware renderer by SirEdric.
• The Power Of "probe" - a method to find the brightest area of an image by fry.
• Fire - examples of using Fusion particles for creating fire effects.
• Position Pass - methods of recreating 3D objects using beauty and depth passes.
• Custom Glow And Flares From Headlights - simulates lens effects of bright light directed into camera. Created by Gringo.
• Light Streaks - a collection of links and compositions explaining how to simulate the Light Streaks effect which is often made by means of Trapcode Particular.
• A Way To Make Waves, Power Of Curves - these two topics show the versatility of the ColorCurves tool which can be used not only for color correction.
• Filtering Fcurves, Tracking Data - an unusual method of smoothing trajectories invented by ChadCapeland. Also, a link and description for SavitzkyGolaySmoothingPointFilter.Fuse
• Fake Global Illumination & Occlusion - a nice way to create a GI effect. Started by Pinionist.
• Fake Chromatic Aberration - different methods of creating a realistic Chromatic Aberration effect.
• Particles Follow A Path - a setup which makes particles (not the emitter, but particles themselves) fly along a 2D path.

MACROS

• How Do I Fade Away Particles By Distance From Camera - a macro which makes particles visible only within a distance range from the camera or any other 3D object. Created by Gringo
• Kak. Or Ibk For Fusion. It Sucks Less - a new keying tool developed by SecondMan
• Distance3d Macro - measures the distance between two objects in 3D space. Created by Gringo
• Color Range Macro - measures the minimum and maximum values of the Red, Green, Blue and Alpha channels in the whole image, or within a rectangular area. Created by Gringo
• Motion Vectors Correction Macro - lets you modify motion vector map in case the position of your 3D-object is animated in 2D with tracking or other kind of 2D-animation to achieve correct resulting power and direction of the motion blur. Created by Gringo
• Clip Range Macro - clips color values outside the defined range. Created by Gringo
• Blurred Edges Restoration Macro - lets you restore the color information lost in defocused or motion blurred areas, especially if the source has parasite edging around the objects. Created by Gringo
• Slice Stretch Macro - creates a horizontal or a vertical image slice at a certain position and stretches it indefinitely over the whole image. Created by Gringo
• Blur To Black (Eliminate NAN Pixels) - a preset for the CustomTool by Tilt which detects the corrupt pixels in 3D layers and creates a mask for them.
• Improved Interface For The Blur Tool - offers a choice to set the blur size relative to the image width or in pixels and has some other interesting features. Created by Gringo
• Contrast Around Color Macro - Lets you adjust the contrast of the image, preserving the luminosity, hue and saturation of a selected color. Created by Gringo
• Luminance Control Macro - Adjusts only the luminance of the image preserving the saturation. Created by Gringo
• Lens Distortion Tools - the UVLensDistortion macro applies lens distortion or any other distortion to the image according to a UV map stored in an external file. Created by Gringo, idea by Tilt
• Direct Particle Dynamics Control - the pDirectDynamicsControl macro controls particle acceleration, speed and spin at any moment after the emission. Created by Gringo
• Arri Alexa - the FixDigitalEdgeArtefacts macro fixes colored edges often seen on digital footage. It can also fix chromatic aberrations. By Gringo
• Gaussuan Blur In An Xy Fashion - a macro to expand objects' edges. By Kristof
• A New Macro To Find Objects' Edges - useful to improve edges after keying or for creative purposes. By Gringo
• Black Point / White Point Macro (The Primary Grade) - lets you define black and white point by picking colors from a reference picture. The topic also contains the PrimaryGrade macro which has a full set of color controls along with B/W point pickers. By Gringo
• Quick Defocus For Particles - makes a very quick DOF effect for small particles like sparkles or rain. By Gringo
• Animation Ghosting In 3D - shows animated objects' trajectories in 3D Space. By Gringo
• Cgsreflect Macros Tool - creates a reflection in a flat horizontal surface with adjustable glossiness. By JUNE
• Is There A Way To Make a simple tube in DF6? - a macro which creates a Tube3D geometry primitive. By Gringo
• Uv Positioner Macro - works like the conventional Texture tool, but supports Alpha and different tiling options. By Gringo
• Advanced Camera Shake Macro - creates more natural effect than the standard tool and gives you all the controls needed to avoid black edges. By Gringo
• Checker Soft Macro - a checker texture creator with many parameters by Gringo
• Color Fill Macro - fills the image with a custom flat color using the Alpha channel as a mask by default. Created by Gringo
• Tape Measure for Fusion - outputs distance between two points in pixels and in generic Fusion units. Created by Gringo
• Hue Color Curves Macro - lets you adjust Hue, Lightness and Saturation based on the source image hue. Created by Attila Sziklai
• 2d Sss Macro, for faking sub surface in 2d - a macro by protean which simulates the SSS effect using a depth map.
• Color Aberration Macro - a macro for simulating color aberration effect by robocop.
• Color Bars Generator - generates NTSC and PAL color bars. Created by Gringo.
• Camera Motion Compensation For 2d Particles - compensates camera pan and tilt. Used for particles emitted from a bitmap region taken from an object in the frame. Especially useful when particles are pre-motion blurred (sprites contain motion blur and MB in pRender isn't used). Created by Gringo.
• Macro: Pimagemanipulate - two tools which let you control the particle dynamics by an image map: pImageManipulate by theotheo and pCustomTurbulence by Gringo.
• Advanced Grid - a grid generator by Gringo. The grid pattern can be defined by a gradient. Can also generate some other patterns like lines or dots.
• New Directional Blur Macro - calculates its power and direction from a motion path. By Gringo.
• How To Blend Between 2 Paths? - two macros by Gringo which blend a point's position between multiple paths.
• Refraction Macro - a macro by Gringo which uses height map to apply refraction-like distortions. Some simple exp<b></b>ressi&#111;ns tips.
• Depth Defocus Macro For Fusion 5.3 - creates a DOF effect based on a depth map. The author is Gringo. The topic contains also two approaches to expand edges of objects (primarily for Z Channel extension).
• Macro For Correct Defocus - a defocus tool with the boke effect. By Gringo.
• Macro To Automate Dailies Creation - creates a slate and letterbox with various textual information. By Gringo.
• Simple Color Picker - displays the average, minimum or maximum color of an area in the image. This is Gringo's update of a macro originally developed by Tilt.
• 3d Cam Data To 2d Space - the topic contains some solutions for converting 3D to 2D coordinates.
• Color Correction - several methods of selective color correction by Shaily, SecondMan and Gringo

SCRIPTS

• Names From Operations Script - renames all the (selected) nodes in composition according to their main parameters. Based on a script from hulan, improved by ChadCapeland and significantly reworked by robocop after Gringo's ideas.
• Issues In Fusion When Writing A Quicktime Movie To The Bluearc Cifs File System - script solving the quicktime output file overwriting. Written by Tilt
• Generate Three Bmp Masks - script by pingking which automatically generates separate Bitmap masks from a Loader's color channels.
• Exr Pass Navigation - script by robocop which remaps various sets of auxiliary channels to RGB in an OpenEXR Loader.
• Bfsmartconnect - a magic script which connects separate nodes automatically taking into account their type and aim. Idea by Fred Osome, programming by bfloch.
• Abs To Relative Paths Script - converts all the paths in a composition from absolute to relative. Created by protean.
• Multi Channel Exr - a modification of Sven Neve's script for splitting EXR channels by isotron with some improvements and bugfixes.
• Maya 2009 Multi-Pass Loader Script - a new comprehensive solution for loading and combining multiple passes by thorsten.
• Suggestion: Flat Filtered Command List - major improvements for the Add Tool.eyeonscript by bfloch and Daniel Koch.
• "dump All Inputs" Script - lists all the tool's inputs and outputs, including hidden ones. Useful for creating macros and simple exp<b></b>ressi&#111;ns. Made by Fry.
• Wish - Search Engine - advanced search scripts by Tilt and pingking which allow to select or pass through multiple nodes according to tool type, name and comments info.
• A Kind Of Precomp/Reference Approach - a pack of scripts by pingking which allows to insert external compositions as parts of the flow.
• "track One Frame" Script - extremely useful for complicated tracking cases when you need to advance manually frame by frame. Created by Fry.
• Preview With Djv - a tool script by pingking which sends loaders or any other tools to DJV, a third-party realtime sequence player.
• Chan File Importer - a tool script to import and export 3D cameras and transforms between Nuke and Fusion by pingking.
• Baked Animations, Obj Sequence Import - frame render scripts for FBX and OBJ sequence importing by SirEdric and Sean Konrad.
• Incremental Save - Maya or Softimage-like approach to incremental save for Fusion by redoddity.
• Path Import From Svg - an SVG import tool which converts imported vectors to editable polyline masks. Written by bfloch.
• Display Channelbool And Merge Operation - renames CannelBooleans and Merge nodes in your comp accordingly to the operations they perform. Created by hulan.
• Multi Attach - a script to connect an image output to multiple tools' inputs at once by hulan.
• Animation Splines Retiming - allows to retime animation in selected tools according to a TimeStretcher, Twixtor or Kronos retiming. Idea by Gringo, coding by Roman Fedotov.
• Some Modified Scripts - improved Attach_Center_to_Path_Keep_Position, Bake_Animation and Change_Paths.
• Import Shake Shapes Into Fusion - script by slayerk, which lets you import masks from Mocha and other Imagineer software as polygons via Shake export.
• Skip Existing Frames - Script which helps to render only missing frames. Idea by Gringo, coding by Konstantin Kharitonov and Dmitry Slepichev.
• Parameters Sheet - the idea about an additional panel which could manipulate similar parameters of multiple nodes at once. And also, a temporary script solution written by slayerk.

PLUGINS and FUSES

• Clrelight Opencl Fuse - a relighting tool, a more advanced substitute for the standard Shader, which uses Open CL to increase the speed dramatically. Developed by iLuso.
• Better Corner Pin - Gui Prototype - a fuse which replaces the standard CornerPin offering more advanced and friendly interface as well as additional functionality. Developed by Tilt.
• Lens Flare - a fuse by Tilt to create various lens flare effects.
• More Freebies - some view LUT shaders from redoddity.
• Hos Pixel Mapper Plug-in Update - a plugin by redoddity which is similar to the standard Texture tool, but more powerful and user-friendly.
• New Plugin: Polyline Unwrap - unwraps curved objects outlined by a polyline to a straight line. And another plugin in the same topic - KrazyKey, based on a completely new principle. Suggested by ChadCapeland. Coding by mattirwin
• New Fusion Plugin: [multi Plate] - useful to generate a large clean plate from a panning shot using supplied tracking data. Created by hulan.
• Free Fusion Plugin: Median Filter 1.0 - a temporary filter by hulan. Can be used for noise reduction and cleanup, e.g. wire removal.
• Tonemapping Fuse - a fuse and a plugin for HDRI tone mapping by redoddity.
• Multistep Blur - a fuse which helps to simulate a realistic glow for very bright objects. Idea by Gringo, coding by Roman Fedotov.
• Fast Relighting Plugin - lets you apply different types of light sources including point lights and spots with decay. It can even cast soft shadows! Requires a normal map and a depth map (Z). Written by makal.