[macray]

When I use Fire for close ups to setup Materials - it is not useful as the image seems to be calculated with every SL at a slightly changed camera position, resulting in a blurred picture.

[JDHill]

Could you send me a simple scene which demonstrates this? It could be camera motion blur being enabled in the Scene Object, but that would be a bug -- it is supposed to be ignored when exporting to Fire.

[macray]

will strip the scene and send it to you. Thanks for looking into it.

I had that several times now, not just when using cameras that are very near to the object.

[jc4d]

It can´t be matter of focus? Try adding a camera tag and play with the values.

Cheers
JC

[JDHill]

Thanks for sending the file. With fstop @ 3.5 and the objective only some centimeters away, you are simply seeing a heavy depth of field effect. You say you have seen this with larger scenes though -- do you possibly have an example of that?

[macray]

didn't think it was the DOF but one can always learn new stuff. (Never knew this is the way you create DOF in Maxwell, but thinking over it it makes sense. )

concerning the larger scenes I'll inform you when I stumble over this effect again. I don't have any particular scene in mind but had this effect mainly when using the editor view instead of a camera.
Btw: When using the editor View - how is the focus of the camera set?