Panoramic Camera

The Panoramic camera creates 360-degree, immersive rendering. These can be Spherical, Cylindrical, or Cube Mapped (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Panoramic camera using the Spherical projection

Panoramic Camera Parameters

Projection - Specifies the panoramic projection to use: Spherical, Cylindrical, or Cube Map. Single-face Cube Map projections are available, and letting you render only one face of the cube. This is useful for animation overlays in stereo panorama renderings.

Physical Camera Parameters
- Focal Length - The lens's focal length in millimeters.
- F-Stop - The aperture-to-focal-length ratio.

Viewing Angle
- Horizontal Field of View - The horizontal field of view in degrees. This sets the x-coordinate for the camera's horizontal field of view in the scene. This is ignored when using Cube Mapping.
- Vertical Field of View - The vertical field of view in degrees. This sets the y-coordinate for the camera's vertical field of view. This is ignored when using Cube Mapping.
- Keep Upright - If enabled, the Panoramic camera is always oriented towards the horizon, and the up-vector stays in its default direction (vertical) at (0,1,0).

Clipping
- Near Clip Depth - Distance from the camera to the near clipping plane, measured in meters.
- Far Clip Depth - Distance from the camera to the far clipping plane, measured in meters.

Depth of Field
- Auto-Focus - If enabled, the focus is kept on the closest visible surface at the center of the image, regardless of the Aperture, Aperture Edge, and Focal Depth values.
- Focal Depth - The focal area's depth, measured in meters.
- Aperture - The camera lens opening's radius, measured in centimeters. Choosing a low value creates a wide depth-of- field, where everything is in focus. Choosing a high value creates a shallow depth-of- field, where objects in the foreground and background are out of focus.
- Aperture Aspect Ratio - This allows you to stretch and squash the depth-of-field disc.
- Aperture Edge - Controls aperture edge detection at all points within the aperture, and modifies the bokeh effect. The lower values produce more pronounced edges to out-of-focus objects affected by a shallow depth-of-field, such as objects in the foreground and background. A high value increases the contrast.
- Bokeh Side Count - The number of edges making up the bokeh shape.
- Bokeh Rotation - The bokeh shape orientation.
- Bokeh Roundedness - The roundness of the bokeh shape's sides.