Yes, Thank you - One test/experiment is worth 1000 guesses.
Three posible workarounds i see are:
I'm going with combo of #1 and #2.
Sorry, C4D 2023.2.2 and 2024.2.0. Multi-year, personal passion project.
Want everything dialed in > Need to upgrade = so version 2023.
And yes, i am now wishing I had multiplied everything's size by a factor of 10, instead of hyper-accurate real world units.
Can I switch from cm to mm (or smaller) in project scale units to help avoid this / give myself more decimals to work with? Smallest elements are mm-scale type/typography.
Thanks Doc, appreciate the effort.
It's not just the slider. If I manually input anything over 10, it rounds it down to 10.
The zoom animation in first file you posted plateaus/clips/pegs/maxes at 10 on frame 37 of 60.
I supposed you intended it to zoom all the way into the "tiny" text? It's barely big enough to read.
(The second link is the same file as the first link, but get where you are going with it.)
Updating C4D to '24... Current '23.2.2 install has been acting odd, with unexpected results and crashes.
Yep, works fine in '24, issue still persists in '23.2.2 with the native-all-in-one RS Cam, but not the old RS Cam tag.
ah, i figured out i can scale the camera down without much mess.
Still, Why limit the zoom?
Here it is!! I modified this rig to meet my needs when i was in your shoes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnxpYK7QiJ4
I can't seem to zoom my (new native) Orthographic RS Camera past "10"
What gives? Why?
Spinal Tap is NOT impressed.
(I can't scale all my old scenes, due to a bunch of xpresso and python programming.
Can't find anything in any of the prefs or settings, but please correct me if I'm missing it.)
In some situations, I use a tracer (set spline type to B-Spline or Linear) connecting a series of nulls.
It's not quite the control of Bezier curves, but it's quick and easy approximation, and you can double up nulls to make sharp corner points.
Honestly, I'm not concerned about technically accurate fisheye, or tilt-shift.
Primarily I was after some controllable distortion and chromatic dispersion around the edges of the rendered image, similar to this image I generated using Cycles4D using dispersive glass geometry (but very noisy, so I moved to RS).
https://eganjones.com/images/3d/___EO_BASE_14a.png
I am concerned about quality of 4k rendered image.
I thought i set the gradients to 32-bit, linear. C4D file w/ nodes below.
I didn't tweak any Gamma settings. How do i make sure it's 1.0?
Maps looks the same as the RS manual:
https://help.maxon.net/r3d/cinema/en-us/Content/html/Lens+Distortion.html
Followed this tutorial:
https://lesterbanks.com/2018/11/camera-distortion-shader-redshift-c4d/
Should I even be messing with the RS camera distortion map?
Don't have plugins. Don't have money. Just C4D+RS.
Sounds like a real PIA to generate a proper neutral distortion map, with finicky results.
Is there a repository or resource of pre-made maps?
Example c4d file:
http://eganjones.com/c4d/rs_camera_distortion/test_camera_distortion_example_01.c4d
RS Camera Distortion
I have been trying to utilize the camera lens distortion feature in RS, but I can't seem to get the expected results.
Going from tutorials and the c4d/rs manual, I use the NEUTRAL UV bitmap setup (tried both flat bitmap, and node setups)...
However, the render comes back sheared, as opposed to NO distortion.
I've played around with different orientations and colors (gradients/solids, white, gray, black, yellow, olive, etc.) trying to wrap my brain around how to work with it, but still confused, as it seems broken if I cant get a neutral state.
End goal is to apply a spherize filter or similar to the neutral UV map to get fisheye and tilt-shift-like effects.
Project File ZIP for reference / testing / debugging / validation.
Many Thanks-
Egan