X-Dof 2.0 LightWave X-Dof can be seamlessly integrated into all major production pipelines, minimizing your time and effort when achieving given composition. The actual simulation is based upon an advanced post-processing algorithm, compliant with the real-world optics, running at an unmatched speed, and providing coherent output even under the most extreme conditions. Our Price:  $199.00   • or •

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VoluMedic Demo Try out VoluMedic! (9.9MB) More downloads... Requirements Lightwave 7+ WinNT, Win2000, WinXP, OS 9.0, OS X At least 128mb ram recommended Key Benefits Depth-of-Field accounts for photo-realism. It is the feature of the real-world optics, and must be approached as serious as lighting, modeling or texturing. It is also the key element in photographic composition. Together with other camera settings, X-DOF is a powerful expression tool, that helps you better define the foreground and background. It is the key to achieving great composition and beatiful images. Especially in CG, the DOF effect can save you a lot of work. Instead of modeling and texturing everything carefully, you will just put all effort into important areas - objects in focus. As a result, you will get cooler pictures in shorter time! Feature Highlights Smooth, fast and accurate Depth-of-Field effect Custom lens diaphragms Custom intensity features Advanced motion blur Beauty, Speed, and Accuracy All of it can work at the same time! The other DOF solutions either lack accuracy - the case of post-filters, or take hours to render, as it happens with all raytraced DOFs. Custom Lens Diaphragms The lens aperture of a real camera consists of a number of blades which add up for an opening through which the light hits the film. X-Dof allows to simulate the diaphragms with 3,4,5,6,8,10 or 12 sides, with the option to scale and rotate. Furthermore, it allows for edge smoothing, which absolutely matches the shape of a real aperture, blades of which are not straight but round. Custom Pixel Intensity The effect of various diaphragms can best be seen on luminous pixels. The custom intensity features allow for boosting the RGB values, either based on specular shading, luminosity, special intensity buffer, or through the render directly, based on the HDRI. The result can be modified by custom color filters. Advanced Motion Blur Using X-Dof, users can achieve complex optical phenomenon, that includes motion blur and depth-of-field simulated at the same time. X-Dof's precise processing, which can account for the DOF effect alone, ensures an optimal allocation of sampling passes, for the motion blur and depth-of-field simulation. Limitations The X-Dof's post-filter doesn't process pixels seen through transparent surfaces. A correct circle-of-confusion on such surfaces can still be accomplished via X-Dof's multipass, or by rendering and processing the scene in separate layers.

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Hands-On Reviews of X-Dof 2.0 LightWave

The reviews that appear here are hands-on reviews from actual users of X-Dof 2.0 LightWave. These individuals have taken the time to share their thoughts about this product for the benefit of the entire community. If you'd like to share your own thoughts about X-Dof 2.0 LightWave write your own review today!

Value:  Features:  Quality:  Overall:  Very intuitive interface. I liked the intuitive design of the interface. The rendering times were very reasonable. I was able to get a really good-looking microscopic feel on my first set up. The downloadable access to the program was also nice, instant gratification. Rich Jackson, Animation Works Reviewed on March 30, 2002 by rich@... from Rochester, Michigan.

Value:  Features:  Quality:  Overall:  For that photo real look and fast setup it has to be X-DOF There has been many times I have required a soft DOF, but X-DOF is beyond that, as it also adds blooms to the image creating very real looking renders, plus you can change the iris shape, some thing that no other DOF plugin can do. The setup is quick and easy too. Since buying I've used X-DOF on most of projects. There is a preview window too, saving a lot of time in setup. The Single License X-DOF will aslo work over a render farm at no extra cost to you. The support is very good too, not that you'll need it as it's realy reliable. Infact... it's never crashed once! Don't take my word for it, check out their web site images. Shaun Lee Bishop Nemesis CGI Ltd. Reviewed on January 15, 2002 by Shaun Bishop (shaun@...).

Value:  Features:  Quality:  Overall:  The world is a blur It’s like taking your glasses off and not seeing the world for the first time. Since first using X-Dof I haven’t rendered anything without it. This plugin has become an integral part of rendering, adding an extra level of realism and believability to any image. Even when used only subtly in a scene, the results are far superior to anything rendered without it. Some have reported problems with the auto-focus not working properly when a scene is reloaded but I haven’t had any problems. Reviewed on October 29, 2001 by Murray blanc (blancm@...).

Value:  Features:  Quality:  Overall:  Quick easy depth of field in Lightwave 6.X The feature I liked most about X-Dof is that you could assign any object as a reference focus object making it easy to do rack focus or just control depth of field in general. The image quality is superb. It gives a much softer depth of field out of focus effect, especially when you want to use a really narrow depth of field. The only draw backs I've found at the moment is that it doesn't work through transparent objects and the lack of documentation (only 1 html page). Reviewed on August 6, 2001 by Danai Chutinaton (danai_c@...).

Value:  Features:  Quality:  Overall:  the true icing on the cake, for the ultimate in realism The look X-DOF adds to a rendering was somthing I had been trying to mimic for years, with limited results and it does so with great ease. It truly add a photographically realistic looking DOF blur to a rendered image, in a 1/10 the time it takes LW to render if with antialiasing. Better results AND way faster! Plugin installed easily and quickly. My only annoyance with the install was I had to wait 24 hours to be sent a serial number that keys it to my dongle- not a problem usually, but nowhere ANYWHERE does it say you need to send them a code for the key, the extremely brief single html page manual makes it seem like you will install the plugin and be up in running in seconds. NOT TRUE! There are a few rough corners I noticed, that will most likely be fixed in an update, such as the target focus object does not seem to be tracked dynamically, and somwhow was lost when i added and deleted several items in my scene that didn't include the target object. Otherwise, a mighty fine addition to any pro lightwavers arsenal of tools! I would have given it 5's across the board if it had a better manual (2 pages?) and some sample scenes, as the settings don't initially make sense, —numerical entry goes from 0 - 100, but settings in the range of .2 - 1 worked best for me. Reviewed on May 21, 2001 by James Darknell (typeboy@...).

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